They don't want to pay attention that cultural and moral dissolution as at the base of violence of all sorts. Blaming guns is easier and symbolic. They don't have the real courage necessary to come right out and say they no longer believe in the Bill of Rights. There are over 100 million words in regulations and statues which describe everything we can and cannot do. This adds to our disrespect for all law.
Law becomes incomprehensible and unknowable, yet government continues to crank it out.
The government insurance policy to pay for all this is the tax system. Under the careless eyes of Congress, the self serving court system, the growing Caesar like power of the executive branch the Constitution is close to being a zombie as it has ever been. With police powers granted to everything from the FBI to FEMA, from the Secret Service to the Small Business Administration and the IRS, we are moving ever closer to fascism. Government couches the destruction of Constitutional guarantees with the language of compassion. While it continues to encourage dependency and expands its police powers.