I'll tell you the problem in this country... it is the gun lobby -- the NRA. They funnel tens of millions of dollars to support (mostly) republican candidates who don't have the balls to stand up to them. If they do, the NRA will run another republican in the primaries against them. So that even when we had a president (Obama) who was a proponent of sensible gun laws (such as more stringent background checks), nothing gets done. We now have a president who has zero leadership ability and has yet to comment on the issue and has not even brought it up again since the Las Vegas mass shooting. We have easy access to assault-style weapons in this country that can be easily modified to be fully automatic weapons using simple cheap devices such as bump stocks. We have the misdirection already, just one day after this awful shooting, from the right wing media focusing on mental health issues, instead on what the real problem is: unbridled access to guns with virtually little controls. Even if people had reported this scumbag in Parkland (down the street from where I grew up), the police could not have legally taken his guns (that he purchased legally) away from him even though he had a history of mental health issues and was under treatment for those issues, with a social media history showing nothing but troubling images and comments, where everyone that knew him said that he was a dangerous person.
So, when the "President" tweets this morning about mental health issues (while watching Fox and Friends), he is once again missing the point. And, when the "President" has yet to make a statement about this tragedy, he is once again failing.
We need Congress to do something to limit access to those who should never have the ability to get these weapons and close the loopholes that allow the purchase of guns with limited background checks in the majority of states. I'm no expert and I don't know what will work best without "violating" the 2nd Amendment, but there are professionals who do have ideas. Now Congress needs to take action instead of cowering in the corner and sending "thoughts and prayers" or this is going to keep happening and happening and happening -- our children will continue to die.
Guns can't be made "safer"... the purpose of a gun is to shoot it. The purpose of an AR15 like this guy used in Parkland is to kill. Period.