Another Day Another Massacre

I hate to flippant when seventeen lie dead from another school shoot out in Parkland Florida, but I've tried logic, eloquence, whit, factuality, moral suasion and the needle has not moved one iota towards common sense.
Sarcasm is all I have left....apologies.
The truth is, the whole thing has become a vast zero sum game. Likely there is an uncontested majority in the USA for a sane simple policy of gun control, but that majority is hamstrung by inhibitions on voting, manipulated by malign media actors, outspend and outmanuevered at every turn.  In such circumstances policy which is largely utopian in character (ergo "an armed society is a peaceful society") is made by bloated fundraisers, their puppet politicians and gruesome ideological autistics in Washington DC.
The American People are ruled by a government that will do Anything to stop gun violence in the USA ...anything as long as it isn't something that might actually work and cost certain protected cadres their privileges.
For things to change, certain personalities in Washington have to be denied power and office and then the far more difficult task of sitting a congress willing and eager to confront the issue bluntly and effectively begins.
Until then...pfft.
Sorry.