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Anything except the obvious solution
There is no obvious solution.
If guns magically disappeared overnight, the people who would indiscriminately kill children would still be around. They'll just run kids over with their car during recess, lock the doors and mix a ton a bleach and ammonia, run in with an axe, or anything else. People are creative.
We can point to Australia, Canada, or England as "proof" that banning guns = stopping murder, but people conveniently forget that they also have universal healthcare, a higher income compared to cost of living, free or cheap education, etc. These conditions breed fewer people with motives to kill indiscriminately.
The US government can continue trying to ban guns, which would start with amending the Constitution, and would end with police going door to door to round them up because most people won't comply.
Gun control has only gotten stricter over time, yet indiscriminate shootings have only gotten more frequent. If you feel that isn't explained by our decreased wages, social cohesion, and overall quality of life, then how else would you explain it? My grandparents could mail order machine guns to their front door, yet school shootings never happened. They could also support a family of 4 with a single parent working right out of high school, which js hilariously unimaginable today. Is that coincidence?
We're also 12 months away from a potential dictatorship, yet people are still callling for their own disarmament. Some people think gun ownership is nuts, but I think not owning a gun right now is nuts. They might be ok with not protecting their family, but I'm sure as hell not.
Dictatorships are typically resisted with force and ended with force.
It is what it is.
This comment prompted me to look into what causes a dictatorship to fall. I ran across this article, https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/mar/02/protests-how-dictators-fall, which lists the armed rebellion as part 2. Part 1 is nonviolent consensus building that moves the ambivalent to action.