I’m always a little perplexed by the argument that says “if they don’t have a gun they’ll use something else.”
Because, yeah, isn’t that the point? Guns have much more killing potential than other weapons (knives, cars). You said it yourself... let’s minimize the loss of life. Shouldn’t we make it harder on killers to access weapons that can kill with such potency? I understand the argument of stopping government oppression, but to me the issue of people dying so constantly seems to outweigh our rather archaic need to be armed as citizens. I don’t believe weaponery to even be the most important tool in fighting your own government... strikes (gas stations, hospitals, food production, ect) would be far more potent, without the loss of life. We, the general populous, are what drives society forward... if we wanted to halt the entire country we could just stop going to work. We don’t need guns to do that.

Our other issues, to me, seem like a much more complex challenge to solve without drastic changes and (likely) would not be solved in a timely fashion.
(1) If we cannot solve the multitude of issues causing this violence quickly, what should/would we do then? Should we just let this continue, and hope for some good fortune? This doesn’t seem like a problem where we can just wait and pray for regression to the mean.

(2) What do you think would be actual solutions for tackling the reasons behind violence? What do you think are the real reasons that we are seeing all of this violence? You said that America is struggling to tackle the real problems causing the violence, but notably left off what these problems are. To be able to debate with you I need to know what you’re suggesting instead.