Of all the horrible details coming up, the report that the shooter was "briefly engaged" by law enforcement (you know, before he went on to kill children) is probably what disturbed me the most.

Maybe you should have "engaged him" a little bit more?

Families in Uvalde are having to take DNA tests....because the victims bodies were so badly mangled the military-style weapons that they're unrecognizable.

There has to be a special place in Hell for the gun nuts who care more about possessing whatever weapons they want than innocent lives and the politicians who ignore or excuse away these incidents and continue to allow these to happen.

For context, Kerr's father was murdered in a terrorist attack in Beirut in 1984.  He's been very outspoken on this issue in the years since.  

With each new tragedy like this, I think ok this is the one, this is the one which will make the US repeal the 2nd Amendment. But it never happens.

Another rogue element from the "well regulated militia" I guess

We can only mitigate it.  We need laws to fortify against it and to mitigate it.  But the 2nd Amendment ain't going away. 

The two are not comparable.

Biden has a opportunity now to lead from the front.  He won't.  They never do.  Clinton didn't, Bush didn't, Obama (possibly worst of all with Sandy Hook) didn't, Trump didn't -- and Biden won't either. They all love the sound bites pretending to give a shit, but nothing comes of it.  Biden could sit as his desk tomorrow and sign any number of executive orders creating immediate change.  That's not to say these orders wouldn't be lawyered away in the months and years to come -- but it could start a wave of change - it could start a real narrative that it's possible in America.

I think the change needs to include entertainment.  Stop making movies and tv shows and video games and comic books etc using guns and gun violence as cool and entertaining.  After a generation hasn't been bombarded with the coolness of gun violence - perhaps the social narrative will have changed.