Gun violence - any viable solutions?

That's an interesting premise - one country suing another for the actions of the second's private citizens.  I assume the grounds are that some American agency should have responded more quickly or with greater effectiveness when the El Paso shootings started.  If those are the grounds, I would propose the United States counter-sue Mexico (a) for not doing more to prevent 11 million illegal aliens to enter the United States through Mexico, and the costs this country has accrued as a result, and (b) for the actual and punitive costs of the tens of millions of Americans you have died or become addicted from drugs that entered the United States through Mexico.

Then let's see how far this piddly-ass lawsuit will go.

P.S.  It also raises the question of why all those Mexican citizens were shopping at the Walmart in El Paso rather than the one in Ciudad Juarez.

I've heard it said repeatedly that other civilized countries also have citizens with mental illness, yet they don't have the mass shootings we do. The difference is that in most of those countries, mental illness healthcare is mandated and administered with or without the consent of the patient. Here, we have moved so far to the left in trying to respect everyone's personal civil rights, that we cant force mental healthcare on adults without their informed consent, even though they are often incapable of providing it. As a result, we have psychotics walking around on every street corner, and if they don't already own a firearm, they can get one at the drop of a hat.

The reason we don't solve this problem (as is true of most of our problems) is because we collectively don't have the will to do what it would take.

For a few years during 2 different tenures, Servite's principal was a Gold Glove boxing champ (at least that was the rumor among us students) with sneak up on you quietly ninja skills.  So, had a shooter come on campus while Fr. Chuck Motsko was in charge, the culprit would have been hit with a barrage of lefts & rights before getting a chance to get the first shot off.

(This is how legends grow...)

As an aside & not meant to derail the conversation, I have a newspaper article on my office wall from 2006 that has some immigration statistics from various sources.  Included is a graph that shows the rise in the number of illegal aliens in the country from 3.9 million in 1992 to 11.1 million in 2006.  It is amazing how the left (not you MDDad) continues to use that 11.1 million number, as if suddenly, in 2006, no more illegal aliens came to this country.  Also interesting how that number apparently flattened out at about the same time the Democratic party shifted its position from enforcing border laws to ignoring them.

Statistically, it is probable that the number is now between 22 million to 33 million, depending on if the continued growth was the same actual number of aliens or the rate of increase.

I would put money that the number of illegal aliens in California alone is approaching the 10 million mark.

So now apparently Japan, Uruguay and Venezuela have warned their citizens about travelling to the U.S. because of the threat of mass gun violence. Venezuela, for Chrissakes! My God, what have we become?

Dave, I agree. But there are now two shithole countries warning their citizens about the risk of travelling to the United States because of personal safety concerns. Who would have ever thunk it?

SK, you should visit it again. Apparently it's safer there than here.