verylittlefinger

I think Switzerland is a great example of how to balance this, they have licenses that need to be renewed every six to nine months, they have red flag laws, they have strict rules for publicly possessing a firearm even if concealed.

Switzerland literally has NONE of the policies you listed. Like, not a single one.

Switzerland even excludes basic hunting rifles from the background check. Their acquisition licenses are just a background check, the only difference is, in US it is the dealer that sends the request to police, and in Switzerland you go to police, they do the background check, and give you a license to purchase up to 5 firearms. You don't need licenses to possess, you don't need any of that for person to person sales. Swiss laws are quite relaxed compared to majority of US blue states. Oh, and of course a sizeable part of population has real battle rifles at home...

https://www.fedlex.admin.ch/eli/cc/1998/2535_2535_2535/en

Probably not a new phenomeno

It is! The internet democratized media and communications, and it happened very, very rapidly, so we as a society don't yet know how to handle it. Before the internet the news were heavily curated by "responsible people". Media being the 5th estate and such. The previous revolution of the same wheel was probably the printing press, but printing press took a lot longer to enter the mainstream.

When I hear “common sense” my brain automatically translates it as newspeak for “bullshit”.

Can you please explain to me how training makes mass shooters either less lethal or less likely? Democrats seem to have such a hard on for training, as if a trained criminal is somehow better than untrained one.

Is there any metric towards the goal of ending polio that your efforts impacted in any measurable way?