“Keeps happening” is a bit of a misnomer as school shootings are extremely rare occurrences. The annual odds that an American child will die in a mass shooting at school are nearly 10 million to 1, about the odds of being killed by lightning or of dying in an earthquake. Those are also about the same odds that any American will die in a mass public shooting like the recent one in Buffalo. School shootings are also down from the 1990s. The avg American would certainly not guess that.
There will always be calls to “do something.” If all of the “common sense” restrictions that Matthew McConaughey asked for were all passed tomorrow, when the next school shooting occurs will the public say “ well we passed all those common sense gun laws. I guess we will just have to live with these random tragedies”? Or will they once again call for even more restrictions??