As an American who's lived happily in Sweden for over four years now - and who plans to renounce his American citizenship once he can get Swedish citizenship - I feel that I have some insight into this issue,
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Then there's politicians who know that enacting actual legislation to restrict firearm ownership would be political suicide. So they instead propose, and pass, laws which have literally zero impact on reducing mass shootings, but inconvenience the hell out of legitimate owners.
On top of that, let's be conservative and estimate that there are two firearms for every American (the real number I remember is higher), and we implement a blanket ban on ownership. If 99% of firearms get turned in, that's still 6 *million* black-market firearms floating around.
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As much as I don't want to, I find myself siding with the conservatives who say that people who perform mass shootings will just find other ways of hurting people - but for different reasons than the ones they have for saying so.
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Firearms make it easier to hurt people more numerously. That's a fact, too. I agree in principle that having a blanket ban on firearm ownership would have a tremendous impact on the overall number of people killed in these incidents, which is a net positive in any case.
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