So if gun control isn’t the solution what is?

A return to smaller, neighborhood schools may help. I think we broke that model when we started bussing kids to unfamiliar neighborhoods, to attend school with strangers and teachers that didn't know the parents, etc.

I remember as a teen comparing our smaller town schools to the nearby big city school. As the big city schools got bigger and bigger they became the "blackboard jungle" of the 50s where schools were controlled more by the teen gangs than the teachers. Meanwhile, our smaller small towns remained a community focal point where teachers, parents and students interacted, knew one another and by and large respected one another.

Why is this important? For one, people are less inclined to murder someone they have respectful and familiar relations with. Also it makes it harder for people to slip through the cracks, or become victims of bullies.

We sent our kids to a smaller, private school. All entrances had a school secretary to filter people entering. This was probably adapted following a horrible crime committed there many years earlier, where a kidnapper gained access by disguising herself as a nurse who was there to fetch a child whose mother had been in an accident and was at the hospital seriously injured. It was a kidnapping and after the parents paid a ransom it was discovered that the child had been murdered within minutes after the abduction. It serves as an awful reminder that there are people on this earth that will cold bloodly murder a child for reasons that normal people may never understand, and there always has to be a layer of protection to guard our children, regardless of how secure we feel.

Finally, schools have to focus on the C-minus and D students as much as or even more than they do on the A+ students. For the few dozen shining stars, there are many more non-cheer leaders, non-jocks, and non gifted students who are potential shining stars waiting to bloom, or waiting to discover their passion. Schools have to focus on every single student. A few years ago at one of the homecomings they ID's a former student from the 50s who had substantial achievements in the 50 years following graduation. In high-school though he was a marginal student that always sat in the last row and out of sight, had difficulty paying attention, etc.