The politics as I see them in a nutshell:

Democrats say that gun violence is a symptom of easy access to powerful firearms, inequality, and mental health issues. Their prescription is increasing the background checks and/or barring access to particularly powerful and/or large numbers of weapons and increasing investment in healthcare by way of ACA.

Republicans say that gun violence is a symptom of mental health issues. Their prescription? I haven’t heard one. Perhaps prayer.

You can stand on either side of the fence, but you have to admit that there is a stark incongruency in the response offered by the two parties. Republicans recognize that there’s a problem but offer no solution. You can disagree with the prescribed fix, but you cannot agree with inaction assuming you believe this is a real problem. Not doing something is admitting that you’d rather, to use a rather apt euphemism, stick to your guns than try to resolve a problem you recognize as legitimate. I will never recognize the bloodletting of innocent bystanders as being a just, necessary price to pay to uphold 2A.

Full disclosure: I vote Democrat. I own guns. I appreciate the point of 2A (as ineffective and insane as a civil uprising would be in todays day and age). I support things like stronger background checks, purchasing limits, mandatory safety training for firearm ownership, removing the “gun show loophole.”