monitoring Trump and relevant contemporary events

some names to remember

Majority of people (as in, "WE THE PEOPLE") are for effective gun control;

If Hillary didn’t hawk heavy arms to murderous despots, her guns policy would be ok.

I support a variety of common sense restrictions.

Don't you just lurve the NRA

I’m so sick of that noise. I don’t think anyone on either side of the aisle has any intention of doing anything about it.

No one is blaming Trump for the shootings.

The reason he, and the GOP, are being criticized is not because they're to blame for the shootings that occur but because, beholden to the NRA as they are, they continue to block any attempts at dealing with the firearms side of the problem.

And Trump gets blamed for using the bully pulpit to excuse gun violence rather than condemn it and the gun culture that accompanies it. There's much a president can do in terms of leadership on particular issues, even if the political will to pass legislation is lacking.

That's a big difference compared with the last president who, unable to pass legislation, at least gave voice to those who believe that it's too easy to access to firearms and set up a task force on gun violence (as opposed to mental health). The NRA and the compliant Republicans have been working for decades to make firearms a ubiquitous presence in USAmerican daily life and can be expected to resist even the smallest attempts at reform.

There's no simple fix and the most restrictive legislation is no guarantee that the violence would end.

Maybe in thirty or forty years, as the last of the Trump judges retire from the bench and we have a non-white majority we can re-write the 2nd Amendment and make it relevant to the 21st Century instead of the 18th.

I’d like to know how a kid buys a weapon like this.

oralloy was a poster who was very vocal about his objection to President Obama's regulation - I suspected at the time that there was a personal reason for the objection

Anyone who makes the claim that the two parties are equally culpable in American gun insanity are idiots or they are lying. Possibly both.

There's another possible explanation (though it certainly doesn't exclude the influence of racism as it still exists in many minds, particularly in the south). As the election approached with Obama doing very well, the right wing propaganda machine kicks in with "Obama will take away your guns" (which they also said about Hillary - it's predictable to 100%). And having been trained well, many Americans are easily frightened (Sharia Law is coming!) so they bought the BS that Limbaugh and Fox and the NRA was pushing out at them.

But in England, they are living under the yoke of oppression and are not free. Everyone knows this.

Well I think you know that they're not blaming Trump personally as if he'd pulled the trigger or bought the kid's weapon for him.

Since the USA has such a history of these occurrences people wonder why they still happen with such alarming frequency.

They look to their elected officials and see that attempts to address the issue from the firearms side are consistently headed off by the control of the majority party by the NRA.

Trump is the nominal head of the majority party and thus attracts criticism for not showing leadership on this issue and not doing any more than mouthing a few well worn platitudes.