Pontificate in sorrow, or in resolute love of freedom, or in angry tones about how "this isn't the time" (which time becomes much more difficult to pin down since the intervals between mass shootings keep growing ever shorter).
This is from back in July — right after another mass shooting that made lots of headlines — but it illustrates the real gun violence problem the US faces.
Which is, not only are our elected representatives (especially, but not solely, on the GOP side of the aisle) not willing to discuss gun violence in the US, they really don't want anyone else discussing it, either, and certainly not researching it in a way that would let us actually have sensible, fact-based discussions about its scope and possible solutions, because the conclusions of what could be done about it (nothing, because NRA) have already been drawn, and further discussions will only rile up valuable contributors and the rabble-rousers they pay for (see also: NRA).
Quietly, Congress extends a ban on CDC research on gun violence
Not long after the shooting in Charleston, a US House of Representatives committee rejected a measure that would have allowed the CDC to conduct research into gun violence, leaving intact a ban pushed by the NRA back in the 1990s.
The NRA and the weapons manufacturers have paid a LOT of money to make sure our Congress will do nothing about an issue that will only continue to get worse.
Even when a majority of Americans supported a waiting period the asshats in Washington voted against it, like good little slaves to their owners.
+Scott Jacobs Assuming the Republic survives, one of these days the suborning of the NRA from gun safety and hunting rights advocate to lobbying arm for US gun and ammo manufacturers will make for some fascinating studies.
Indeed it would. Back door deals and butt loads of money abound.
You have to have a horrible fascination of the mind of those who hear “We are studying the cause of gun violence” and run screaming “You’re trying to take my guns away.”
Jim over at Stonekettle Station has a very good (and sadly oft updated) essay on the problem of gun ownership rights.