Mass Shootings debate thread: What public policy options should be pursued?

[Cassandra]

I figured it might be helpful to put this up to take some heat out of the USGD thread on today's awful mass shooting at the Texas elementary school.

To state the obvious, we have a mass shooting problem in this country. What do you think should be done about it? I'd love to hear about specific bills or other concrete policy proposals.

I'll refrain from stating my views in full here in the OP for fear of derailing. My stance on gun laws is driven by pessimism in the continuing viability of the American state project and a desire to protect myself and my loved ones from the armed right, a position which I have a feeling will be orthogonal to the discussion here.

[Cassandra]

Take military grade semi-automatic weapons (e.g. AR-15) out of the hands of young men.

It is illegal in Australia to own a semi-automatic weapon like an AR-15 after the Port Arthur Massacre.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/how-to-prevent-gun-massacres-look-around-the-world

This could very well trigger a massive insurgency in the United States. There are a lot of young men with AR-15s and a "wish a mf would" complex. Men who (mostly) aren't going to commit homicide "unprovoked," but who (subliminally) would love the opportunity to put their toys to work.

This is the trap with gun control in the United States. Our society is ripping itself apart; too blunt of a policy intervention could kick the hornets nest over.