I think it's deeply ignorant, maybe even delusional, to say/think access to guns, and the "gun nut" cultural resistance to making formalized, standardized, rigo

I think it's deeply ignorant, maybe even delusional, to say/think access to guns, and the "gun nut" cultural resistance to making formalized, standardized, rigorous access to guns harder than easy, aren't a significant part of the problem. And that's because there is no other demonstrated factor that distinguishes the U.S. from other countries: we don't have more mental illness than other countries, we don't have fewer instigators of irrational anger. Right after Parkland, a teenage cousin of mine initially did not want to go to the (voluntary) student walkout. Why? He told me his school in San Francisco gets numerous shooter threats. It's that common. And he felt being in a protest with a bunch of people clumped together made a very good target for another shooting. This level of fear proves there is an inadequate balance between 1st and 2nd amendments. In effect, the 2nd amendment is being used to abridge free speech through fear. And I absolutely think gun nuts love this, it's exactly what they want, to shut down rational debate and conversation.