You’re absolutely right, but the thing is collectively 'we’ have decided not to bother with that elephant in the room. It’s pretty clear that it would take something truly truly horrific (dozens of children and adults dead is not enough) to make ‘us’ revisit this stance.
We’ve been though and praying our way through this for 20+ years, we’re not about to stop. (Columbine was April 20, 1999)
I use quotes around we and us, partly because I’m from the land of igloos up north, though we’re not that much better, and mostly because there are of course many many people who are outraged by this, but not to the tipping point of having something done.
