Gun registry
So gun control is a hot topic cause of all the craziness and random shootings and I don't honestly see a pragmatic solution to the random mass shootings etc.
But the funny thing is, the gun control debate pretty much revolves around these random acts of violence. Whenever one occurs, it's only a matter of nano seconds before someone utters the question "is it time to talk about gun control yet?"
Meanwhile these shootings make up a tiny, almost invisible minority of the shootings in this country. And at the same time, ordinary gang killings and things of this nature has happen every single day. Our homicide rates are way higher than the rest if the industrialized world for this reason alone. 500-600 murders a year happen in the city of Chicago for this reason alone.
Here is where the pro gun people will say it's cause Chicago banned guns. This is selective reasoning at it's best, since 2 decades ago new York had around 2000 murders a year and now it's down to 400-500, and if anything NY has become more strict on guns during that time.
So this leads me to what I think is really one of the core issues: illegal guns.
Many guns that are originally sold on the market as legal guns are leaked on to the black market for the benefit of seasoned killers. Some are stolen... But many more are bought in straw purchases for the expressed propose of leaking them onto the black market.
I feel a sort of gun registry is the best defense against this sort of criminal behavior. Especially if you made it so anyone who bought a gun had to register it every few years ( physically proving their possession of the gun) as well as making it mandatory to report if the gun changes ownership through sale, theft, etc. This would make gun owners more accountable for their weapons and make it harder to leak legal guns onto the black market.