What are your views?, do you think we need better and longer background checks?, or what in your estimation would solve the many mass killings here in our united states?
The problem of mass killings isn't due to any single cause. So one "solution" wont "fix" everything.
On the other hand, deciding to do nothing at all, on the grounds that someone will try to find a work around, is incredibly stupid. No other way to put it.
"Lets do NOTHING AT ALL to defend against terrorists using our own freedoms to kill us," isn't exactly a brainy or honorable way to go.
Longer background checks? Why? What are you trying to address by that?
I think the way to go, is to pattern a solution after organizations such as the NTSB. They don't sit down and make ONE rule, and expect that to prevent any and all plane accidents and they don't decide that we have to accept a certain amount of innocent death, in order to protect the right of the airlines to treat safety as an unpleasant expense to be avoided where possible.
Instead, they examine each accident, and try to find an logical, specific and effective change to make, in order to prevent a re-occurrence.
The guy who killed all those people in Florida, had been investigated twice by the FBI for suspected terrorist planning, and was already on the do-not-fly list. It seems logical to proceed then, as has been suggested before, to declare that people who have been so noticed and logged, should NOT be allowed as many freedoms as everyone else. Yet he was allowed to buy the weapons he used, just two days before he used them.
But that wont fix things like the guy who shot the singer over the weekend. An entirely different and specific change needs to be made for nuts like him, again, which is specifically designed to help us keep those kinds of people from gaining weapons of any kind.
