I have found the quirk in US-culture causing this unwillingness to do something about shootings:
The US loves Happy Ends.
The US loves their forced and cheesy comedies, their forced and cheesy romance movies and their forced and cheesy action-movies.
The US loves stories about redemption, how a bad guy found the right way and is now a good guy.
e.g. This pastor who got a standing ovation in a Megachurch when he recounted how he had raped a teenage girl but has since overcome this tragedy that almost ruined his life.
e.g. When Evangelicals insist that Trump is a good Christian despite no evidence to that.
The US wants to see something good in everything. There MUST be something good in everything.
That's why nobody is willing to do something about mass-shootings.
Because there MUST be an upside to everybody having access to a gun.
You can't outlaws guns because of this arbitrary and random declaration that everybody having access to a gun is a good thing and therefore an inalienable right.
Is universal gun-ownership actually a good thing? Is it really a universal right and an inalienable one at that?
These are questions you are not allowed to ask in the US.
Gun-ownership is defined as a good thing. And that's why you cannot outlaw guns no matter how many people die. Because they are good.
Children dying in mass-shootings? You mustn't do anything about that, because there's something inherently good about universal gun-ownership.
Something. I can't tell you what, but there definitely is. Shut up.
