Are we ever going to get tired enough of school shootings that we actually do something about them? [View all]

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I mean really. There is no first world nation, not a one, where there are nearly as many school shootings (per capita not raw numbers) as we have here. Not Canada, not Australia, not the UK, not France, not Switzerland, not Germany, not Japan, not South Korea, not Ireland, not Italy, not New Zealand, not Austria, and I could go on and on. We run logical circles trying to blame everything but guns for this horrible state of affairs. We blame mental health, though there is literally no evidence whatsoever that the people of the US are more prone to mental illness than those of the other nations I mentioned. We blame our multicultural citizenry despite the fact that Canada, the UK and Australia are also multicultural and have vastly lower rates of school shootings. We blame bullying, despite the fact that both Japan and South Korea have problems will bullying that make our schools look like mirvanas in comparison. In short, there is one, and only one, way in which our country is unique relative to the countries on that list. We are the only one that allows pretty much anyone who wants a gun to have a gun. And lo and behold, we have shooting after shooting after shooting after shooting after shooting. I said at the time of Newtown we needed those parents to have the courage to do what the Tills did when Emmit was murdered. We needed to see pictures of what our gun policy had wrought. We needed our tv screens to be flooded with the blood of those innocents. I have no earthly idea what short of that will get our populace to actually wake up and make the politicians listen. Until it happens the next shooting, and every one after that is on us. We know what it would take to make these stop. Australia did it after one. The UK did it after one. We have had well over a hundred and we have done nothing, not a god damned thing.