There is one thing and only one thing that separates the one country (ours) where mass murders happen regularly and other countries (all the rest of them) where they do not: the ready availability of military-style semi-automatic and automatic weapons and related gear. I agree that the laws do not work. What works (and it does) is an outright prohibition of those weapons. Yes, confiscate them if necessary. No one has yet come up with a reason to own a weapon designed solely to kill as many people as possible as quickly as possible. Keep your personal handgun, and of course keep your hunting rifles (as will I), but give up the people-killer.