That Republican prayer vote mongering nonsense is part of the problem. They don't actually want to stop gun violence. They want to stop talking about it by calling it terrorism, which in some cases it is (Dylan Roof obviously). But they never actually do anything about it because each side is so polarized. There's no room for compromise because Republicans are set up to defend gun rights and they have great success painting Democrats as wanting to take them away (even if they were only trying to enact better background checks for example). It's all political theater and nothing changes.

Statistics like the ones from this article make it very easy for both sides to stay entrenched is my point. The anti-gun crowd gets to say that a shooting happens every day, and the pro-gun crowd gets to say look how ridiculous our opponents are. Nobody wins. For shit's sake, the article even points out that this a statistic made up by a Reddit anti-gun group called GunsAreCool. It's not a tool of discussion, it's a tool of polarization.

This response wasn't written to you in particular, but to people who would carry this article under the banner of gun-control. I didn't mean for you to take it personally and I'm sorry if it made you feel as if I don't respect you. That was not my intent. In the tone of the paragraph there is no 'you' in reality, but a caricature of a lot of entrenched people, both left and right who refuse to work with each other.