"What's the basic point you would like addressed, Bill? "

As I said, I don't know if a can DO a brief synopsis....

1)There are more & more mass shooting, and still many, many individual ones.
2)Guns are bigger, fire faster and more common than 20 years ago (I typed 'tears' I considered leaving it), or 50 years ago, or 200 years ago.
3)Claims are made that "laws are on the books...we just need to enforce them", but in a number of states, i.e., Virgina, one can go to a gun show and buy ANYTHING, with little or no I.D., and no waiting. Why would anyone want 5 AK-47s, if not to route them to illegal purposes?
4) The supposed 'right'(interpretation is subjective) in the 2nd Amendment doesn't deal with the situation today.

The point is that this combination of factors is seldom addressed as a whole. Everyone wants to just point to whatever they think will support THEIR view.


...and that is still a short, simplistic version of the problem.