We know the problem. What's the solution.

Each time there is a mass shooting whether it be a school or shopping center or movie theater, the calls go out for gun control and many a citizen object and the battle is on and the solution long, long away.  I am one that believes Americans have the right, and should have the right to bear arms.  Personally I don't own a gun and have no interest in owning a gun.
  I've heard suggestions that we should eliminate assault weapons, make laws that make it more difficult to own a gun, make it illegal to own weapons, make it illegal not to own a weapon, putting armed ex soldiers and ex policemen in schools and several other offerings that are equally not effective or seriously entertained.   Somewhere out there is a solution that is acceptable to the majority of people.
  We seem to be a nation of extremes.  Once abortion was a crime and now it is just another form of birth control.  At one time drinking was illegal and now is as if you are a social outcast if you don't drink.  Now, some want the right to own just about every type of weapon imaginable which other think we should not be allowed to own anything.
  I just don't understand some people.  Hillary Clinton calls herself an advocate for children but she is pro abortion and proud of it.  How can one justify in their own mind that killing something one day is perfectly acceptable and the next day claim it is the most precious thing in the world.
   What we need to do is get off our soapbox for our particular cause and seek a common sense solution.  Take the emotions out of it.  Each of us will have to give up something.
   The liberals will have to acknowledge that gun ownership is a right and they are going to have to accept that.  Pro-gun activists are going to have to admit that we cannot continue as we are because it is just getting to be too dangerous.
  Maybe we can change how guns change hands, requiring all gun sales to be done under the supervision of law enforcement.  I know that one of the most stolen items is weaponry, so many there should be tighter controls guns are stored at home so that if the guns are stolen they can't be fired by the thief.    Maybe make it illegal to have anyone under twenty-one to carry a weapon when not in the company of a a responsible adult.
  I like to watch true crime stories and it seems that in too many murders the offenders are young and they have guns and are involved with drugs.  maybe we can make it illegal for anyone with a drug conviction to own a weapon.  Make the penalty stiff enough to where owning a gun is not worth the price one has to pay.  maybe some kind of mental health evaluation should be given before one can purchase a weapon.  Make it like a driver's license.  One has to be issued a picture ID and it has to be renewed ever so often.
  There is a solution out there and we have to get off our emotionally soapbox and find it.