If the GOP had their way then "good guys with a gun" would be the biggest employment sector in the US.
A comedian trolled the head of the NRA at their conference last week by saying that nobody had done more than Wayne Lapierre in terms of sending thoughts and prayers to victims and if we all sent as many thoughts and prayers as he did then these shootings would stop. Lapierre knew he was having the **** taken out of him, but quite a lot of the audience didn't get the joke and applauded this guy doing the trolling.
I don't know how it will ever change as it is just as much an ideological issue with the GOP as it is about money. No amount of deaths are enough for the hardcore gun nuts to actually admit that they are wrong about access to assault rifles because it would be tantamount to them becoming something that they despise, namely a woke, cancel-culture loving, baby killing, non-racist Commie peado.