The Bible speaks of people at a point in time as having:

a) Insensitive hearts, past all moral sense (Eph 4:17-19),
b) Consciences seared as with a branding iron (1 Ti 4:2),
c) No natural affection, not open to any agreement, fierce (2 Ti 3:3)

and much more. The promise going forward is compared to the circumstance of Lot, who was rescued from lawless men by means of his Uncle Abraham. Lot was tormented ‘day after day…over the lawless deeds that he saw and heard’ in the city in which he dwelt. (2 Peter 2:7,8) The rescue is coming, but not from legislation nor by the good graces of those described above.

These shootings are one more aspect of a system that has not one but many such issues, problems that are well past the “horse out of the barn” stage. From a corrupted environment overloaded with chemicals and waste products (Rev 11:18) to corrupted hearts and minds saturated with violence, the sheer number and magnitude of the problems have moved well beyond our ability or capacity to solve them at scale.

So we put forward theories upon which no one acts.
We propose legislative solutions no one is willing to pass.
We write articles that preach to the choir.

And we clap.

Psalm 94