Start blaming the shooter and stop blaming the gun.

Blaming the gun does two things:

1. It removes focus from the shooter

2. It subtly excuses the shooter from their actions

A firearm is an inanimate object, it can't force anyone to use it nor can it mandate how it will be used. It's like blaming hammers for faulty construction or the beer (or car) for someone dying due to being hit by a drunk driver.

To assess the problem you have to first look at the root cause, not the symptom. We can figure this out with some basic questions:

-What group is doing the majority of these shootings?
---Young males

-What is it that the majority of the members of this group have in common?
---Lack of positive father figure active in their life

Look at Adam Lanza (Sandy Hook), no contact with his father for two years. Ramos (Uvalde) was living with his grandmother because his mother was too much of an addict and his father was fairly absent (from what little I have been able to find). Blacks have the highest level of fatherlessness...

So if this theory is true then we should see a rate of shootings by young, black males which is higher than any other group.

And that's exactly what we find.

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Data for juvenile crimes - 2019:

Murder and nonnegligent manslaughter:
Black: 860
White: 410

Weapons (carrying, possessing, etc.):
Black: 16,080
White: 8,940

Now keep in mind that the black population is only ~12%-~13% of the total population yet it commits ~50% of total homicides and ~38% of all violent crime each year. Most of this is done by young, black males with most of them coming from fatherless homes. These kids are also very likely to create more fatherless children, thus exacerbating the problem.

And focusing on guns doesn't do dick to fix this.

The reason people (especially government) doesn't focus on this is because it's not an easy fix. You can't just outlaw "being a bad father" then pat each other on the back for a job well done, pose for pictures and then call it a day.