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I know that people hate hearing it, but the violence--specifically gun violence--is a symptom of the problem, not the problem itself.
This was likely gang activity. Gang activity is driven by a lot of socioeconomic factors; long-term fixes are things like community reinvestment, properly funded education, reducing income inequality, criminal justice reform, and so on. Even things like reproductive rights and access to birth control and abortion help rather significantly here. If you fix the underlying issues that drive gang activity in the first place, then you eliminate most of the violence problem without also affecting civil rights.
Unfortunately, in the US, one side appears to only have the political will to remove a particular civil right, and the other side wants to obstruct everything and blame it on all "personal responsibility".
I'm not sure that makes sense, you're arguing that gangs, not guns are the problem when every country has gangs but not every country has guns so readily available.
The right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental civil right in the US, and I believe that access to the means of self-protection is a human right. I think that correcting the underlying issues that lead to gang activity would have more benefits overall than trying to ban a constitutional right.
While gang activity exists in all countries, countries with fewer social problems and lower economic inequality have far less of a problem with gang activity.
So we're just dropping the whole well-regulated militia part of that civil right? They didn't really mean that part right?
"Well-regulated" was understood to mean 'trained'. The militia was every able-bodied adult male, and they were legally obligated to supply their own militarily-useful firearms.