How utterly irrational it is to characterize this as a gun violence problem.
Perhaps, but your problem is with the voters. They want reasonable restrictions on the gun right, whether efficacious or not. They want "something done" about gun violence and, increasingly, such calls are coming from gun owners themselves.
The handwriting is on the wall, folks. Extremist positions regarding the sanctity of the 2A will just lead to backlash, and quite possibly loss of the 2A entirely. It is far better to work to address measures that most gun owners can live with, such as red flag laws, background checks for transfers and reasonable requirements for licensure, registration and insurance.
This nonsense of opposing what the public wants and demands because of the Founders' alleged intent to permit citizens to brandish military-grade weapons against their own government is not going to fly with the GP. If gun extremists want to kill off the Republican party and the dash the other policy goals of conservatives, then count me as implacably opposed to the gun extremists.