This isn't going to be nice. (Even less so than usual for me.)
It isn't going to be personal, either, but I'm sick of the demonizing and polarity. People only seem to come here to fight these days, and even those with whom I might mostly agree behave like festering assholes when confronted with... anything.

This is not a problem lacking common ground, but the idiots here first look for reasons to hate, reasons to disagree, and ways to belittle those with whom they disagree, mostly because they're people with whom they've previously disagreed. Idiots.

Why the fuck can't we agree that little children shouldn't be murdered by ANYONE? Stop looking for reasons to be pissed off.
I don't believe anyone here thinks somebody should be allowed to murder little children. End of controversy. You stupid people can keep arguing.

There was a guy who killed his mother and stole her guns, went to a school, entered it and proceeded to kill a lot of people, including little children.

We need to talk about how to minimize the chances of that happening again. We're not going to be able to restrain all the homicidal people. We're not going to be able to make all the guns disappear.

I don't think there IS just one solution, and I don't think there's a way to completely prevent this, but one reason nothing ever, EVER is tried is because fuckwits like us prefer fighting with each other to trying to find ways to keep people from killing children.

No one wants to give an inch.
No one wants to listen.
No one's priority is the victims.

For the record, I'm very torn by this. I'm not at all sure about what the right thing is. The ONLY thing I'm 100% sure of is that people who just yell at each other won't ever help.