It is just a matter of time before SOME form of new legislation rolls along to attempt to reduce Gun Violence and unnecessary firearms-related deaths.
It is not likely that any of us will have much influence, in a first hand fashion.
We can ALL express our opinions to our legislators, and hopefully influence them to support our positions. But this only offers our influence in a 2nd hand fashion.

It is a fact that the US has more Gun Violence issues than any of us would like to see occur (I won't even TRY to quote statistics...let's just say that ANY Gun Violence issue is one too many).
Any time a Gun Violence issue occurs, it just hurts the rest of the firearms community, who have come to enjoy, respect, and safely use firearms, year-after-year, WITHOUT any incidents.
There are a lot of knowledgeable and diverse (culturally, occupationally, economically, etc.) forum members here with opinions on this subject.

I'd like to pose some hypothetical questions.

WHAT IF :
  1. You, personally, were asked to offer a list of "problems" that you feel contribute to Gun Violence. What would be on your list and how would you rank them in priority to be "fixed/addressed"?
  2. You, personally, were asked to offer a strategy to help reduce the Gun Violence issues in the US. What would you suggest be done ? What would you do first ?
  3. You, personally, were asked to compromise some of the smaller existing privileges in order to preserve the other more important ones.
    (We all know that if we were in a position to negotiate, there would have to be some give and take. We would not get EVERYTHING we wanted. )
    What would you be willing TO and NOT TO give up ?


NOTE: The question is "How to reduce Gun Violence in the USA". The suggestions for fixes may not likely be all firearms related.
If the tragedies that have occurred, had not occurred with firearms being involved, but with other means, they would still be tragic, nonetheless. Many of the "root causes" would, however, probably be more likely to be identified, rather than being masked by an attempt to control the method used (i.e. firearms).


So...what would you do if you, personally, could do something ?