High school shooting in Parkland FL

[Wyrd of Gawd]

Of course I look to law to address the issue. What other option is there? However, I'm under no illusions that it would be a quick fix ... or a complete fix, for that matter. I mean, murder is illegal already.

Nor do I think shutting down conversation to be a good course of action. Any possible solution would need to have buy-in from both sides of this discussion. How are you going to achieve that by shutting discussion down? I think it's best that folks speak their views and work towards finding common ground. Perhaps neither side will be thrilled with the outcome, but if it makes headway against the problem, I reckon that's a good thing.

Just a thought: The NRA is a democratically-run private organization with several million members. When I was a kid, they were mostly a gun-safety group, I attended one of their classes in grade school in Florida, not too different in concept from the boating safety class some boat group put on which I also attended. They used to be okay with reasonable restrictions on gun ownership. Somewhere along the line, they became a hard-right 2nd Amendment rights group, I believe largely because a few people campaigned effectively to enter positions of power within the group and changed its course.

It's possible for several million gun control advocates to join the NRA and modify its positions considerably by exercising their votes within the group. The drawback is that they would have to send the NRA money and be active in it.

You do realize that a majority of the States have the right to bear arms in their Constitutions.  That's not dependent upon the NRA.