Gun violence - any viable solutions?

So a Latino man goes on a four-hour rampage of violence in Garden Grove last night. He stabs six people with a knife, killing four of them. Oddly enough, there has been no conjecture in the media today about whether he may have harbored Brown Supremacist or Brown Nationalist sympathies, or about the need for stricter knife control laws. Why is that?

Finally, a breath of reason amidst all this hand-wringing over guns. From the Daily Caller:

Guns Saved These Americans From Assault and Robbery in July

These types of everyday, lawful gun uses are not something we can afford to forget in our desire to just “do something” about mass public shootings, which, while statistically incredibly rare, still strike terror into our souls and break our hearts.

Every day in this country, law-abiding gun owners rely on their Second Amendment rights to stand up against the very types of evil that have so deeply horrified us in recent national headlines.

Neither these Americans, nor their firearms, are the enemy of a free nation. They are, rather, an important and regular deterrent to those who would infringe on the inalienable rights of others.

Did you read the legislation or is this off the top of your head as a general statement.

i do agree with what you point out, but I also see, in the regulation, a potential revenue stream for that licensed gun business... which would, of course, add a “tax” of sorts to the seller’s merchandise.

I heard a pro gun control person make the argument this morning that other countries have people with mental illness, they have violent video games & movies, all of the factors that the United States has, but since they have gun control, they don't have mass shootings. it was her contention that the only difference between the US & other countries is the access to firearms, so that is the sole cause of mass shootings.

Setting aside the studies that dispute that and the reasons why the 2nd amendment exists, I believe she missed one important area. Countries in Europe & around the world do have mental health issues like the United States does, but the difference is how they deal with it. Whereas threats to society are removed from society elsewhere, those with mental issues in the United States are allowed to be part of society. It is not a coincidence that two big problems in our society, homelessness and mass shootings, are a direct result of having mentally disable people mixed into our society and how continually enabling them creates chaos. Until that is changed, mass homelessness and mass shootings will continue.

I am not advocating for facilities that administer "One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest" type procedures, rather a return to the time where mentally ill people who could not function in our society were removed from it. Civil society demands members who agree to the social construct it puts forth and mentally ill people do not agree to that. Separate them from society, in a caring and empathetic manner, but get them away from the rest of us who they are killing and creating havoc among.

By the way, I don't believe those on the left would agree to this solution. A majority of the mentally ill (2 out of 3?) have left leaning ideology, so those on the left would consider this solution to be political in nature.

If we're trying to prevent gun violence, wouldn't it make sense to go back to the point where the incidence of gun violence increased, and evaluate the changes made just prior to and since that point?

Has the number of guns per capita changed significantly in the past 50 years?

How about legal access to guns?

How about fatherless children?

Reduced prison stays for convicted felons?

Proliferation of graphic violence in movies and video games?

You're right MDD, there's no one fix. But it seems the # of guns isn't the most culpable reason.