Here’s an interesting article Greger, it stacks everything up and breaks things down via party and no party.

CBS News poll: Can mass shootings be prevented, and if so, how?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/cbs-news-poll-mass-shootings-143004706.html

The Buffalo mass school shooting took place on 14 May, Texas 25 May, plus who knows how many more shootings that wasn’t school related elsewhere that hasn’t received the media’s attention. Philadelphia, Chicago, perhaps some more. None of them have moved the needle when it comes to who folks plan on voting for come November. How important are these issues to folks if they don’t change how they’ll will vote? It may simply mean there’s other issues out there more important to them. Mass shootings are sensational news. Then they die down and fade. It’s always been this way. Maybe keeping them on the front page for awhile might change that. Then again, it may become an, oh hum, another mass shooting, I wonder if my Braves won last night. I think you’d be surprised at how many folks are paying attention to the NBA finals or if their team won or watching their favorite reality TV show and the like than paying any attention to the news. This especially goes for politics.

Personally, I don’t believe any gun control law, no matter how strict will stop these mass killings. Gun control, banning of semi-automatics may limit the damage done per incidence. But won’t stop them, I believe the number incidences will continue to increase. Even banning all guns, that these killings will continue, only by other means. Why? Because the reason and cause is imbedded deep within our society. I’d say red flag laws could go a long way if enforced. Upping the age to 25 as someone suggested earlier to be able to purchase a semi-automatic would help also. But none of these would prevent or eliminate mass shootings/killings. The problem is too complex and too partisan today to solve.

Perhaps all we can hope for is limiting the damage and living with mass shootings and then mass killings by other means. Congress loves to investigate, why not investigate why no mass school shooting pre-1968 when the UT Texas tower shooting took place and why we have so many after that date? The same goes for mass shootings in general. Why were mass shootings so rare pre-1970 and so common place after?

It's high past time that we start electing Americans to congress and the presidency who put America first instead of their political party. For way too long we have been electing Republicans and Democrats who happen to be Americans instead of Americans who happen to be Republicans and Democrats.