Right on, Chaz, we must changed our mind set and deal with the CAUSES of gun violence.
There have been, and always will be guns. They will be in the hands of nuts, and, I see gun ownership as levelling the playing field.
Florida used to be an unsafe place to be, but, after they passed a "right to carry" law, violent crime went way down. It doesn't take a huge brain to figure out why.

In my own state, we have 1 million total population; there are 10,000 concealed weapon permits out there, Vermont has no law on concealed weapons, yet, we are two of the safest states in the union. Why? I'll bet that our collective mind set is the reason. It's also possible that we are not crowded into too small a space like NY city dwellers. They have their "Sullivan Law" but it is next to useless. As stated before, you can not legislate common sense, and, in my opinion, living in a big city is an un natural act.