We know why society is the way that it is and it is no secret.
In the 40's and 50's people were held responsible for their decisions and their actions.
In the 60's onward, the effort was to blame "society" for the criminal behavior and bad decisions that individuals made. Instead of laying the responsibility for their predicaments on the individual, it was blamed on the amorphous "society".
Thus, individual responsibility was not celebrated. Irresponsibility was celebrated. All sorts of rehab programs sprung up. All sorts of government aid sprung up to help the irresponsible.
What was the result?
Well, you tend to get more of what is incentivized. Thus more irresponsibility and more dependence on handouts.
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When people reminisce about what America used to be like, some act scornfully toward us. They say living in a Donna Reed world was great for a few, but that there were many suffering souls. The way our country is today makes some of us long for those days which seemed so innocent compared to the harsh, cruel, coarse, and sometimes murderous days we exist in today.
Yet most would argue that there were still injustices when we were growing up fifty years ago. Black people who had been freed a century before were still not treated equally in most parts...
This goes for guns as well. Instead of focusing on the victims and putting the violent away from society, we rehab the criminal so that he can go out and do it again.
Then we blame it on the guns, not the individual.
There is an easy answer. Prosecute the violent criminal and keep him locked up.
Research psychotic drugs used for depression, schizophrenia and others and see if there is an association between these drugs and massive violent tendencies.
Allow for the institutionalization of the violent mentally ill.
Eliminate all handouts and incentivize personal responsibility