“ There is a very vocal and very well-funded minority of Americans who will get furious at that notion.”

If I can say anything positive as an outsider looking in at this, and the other “recent” tragedies of a similar nature in your country, it’s that on this occasion, I truly am hearing the people’s (and some lawmaker’s) voices, resonating with what appears to be a deep sincerity, raised in strong counterpoint to that “well-funded minority” of which you speak. These current voices are different from those that I have always heard before, even in the not-so-distant past, and it gives me hope that a line has finally been crossed, and the much too-often silent-majority may indeed have reached the point of declaring “Enough, no more!”