From the article: "Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) posited that repeated acts of gun violence might be more closely related to a lapse of moral values than anything else: 'We lack a certain belief in right and wrong, a certain Christian foundation or religious foundation to our country'".

Obviously, murdering people shows more than just a "lapse of moral values", but it's not because of the declining influence of religious mysticism. There is no "religious foundation to our country" and religion is not a basis for a rational ethics.

Radical? That's just conservative. That's what kept American schools safe for 175 years

I agree. It's unfortunate though, once they control the question, the answer is less important. The question is "what is govt going to do about..."

I completely reject this question. Most shootings involve one or two victims. Violent crime has been declining for decades, but if we want to do something to make it decline more, we should look at the situations that lead to one- or two-victim shootings. I truly don't know what's being most one-victim shootings, but I suspect it's people involved in illegal activities (drugs, sex trade, undocumented work) who feel they can't go to the police and must take the law into their own hands. If we decriminalized these things and found legal ways that people could provide drugs, sex, and mutually-beneficial labor to willing customers, these crimes would drop.

We're doing really well, though, as human history goes when it comes to reducing murder and violence in general. We should resist the temptation to find pockets of the world with even lower violence and then do whatever it takes to be like them trying to make violence decline even faster.