10 WAYS to stop the mass shooting epidemic. PRAYER ISN'T ONE OF THEM.

This vague concept of "pray for InsertLatestTragedyHere #HereWeGoAgain" is incredibly silly.
Even sillier when folks begin to argue about which cause to pray for. "Don't party for Paris! Pray for Nigeria!" "Why isn't anyone praying for XYZ?!?"
Even sillier still, is when praying is all that is being done. Even the Christian texts says "prayer without works" is dead. Works, is quite literally a synonym for action. 
Without a willingness to act upon that which you are praying for, a person may as well cross their fingers, wish upon a falling star, and hold their breath while walking past a cemetery. None of it will stop these shootings like calling and demanding change in the gun laws. We've been praying and praying and praying.
A few of years ago almost to the exact day a classroom full of children were slaughtered and we prayed and prayed another again.
When a theater of movie lovers were slaughtered we prayed and prayed and prayed.
We prayed when a man *slaughtered people who were IRONICALLY praying at bible study/ prayer meeting. 
And when a congresswoman was shot in the head and when countless college campuses were under siege we prayed and prayed and prayed some more. 
We pray for deliverance from evil. And then do nothing else.
That's like praying for God to flush the toilet.
All we have to do is demand a change from those who make the laws
God made us in his image which means we are capable of just about anything we make up our minds and commit our hands and feet to doing.  He isn't a magic genie that grants wishes no matter how hard you pray.
Jesus taught us exactly WORD FOR WORD how to pray. It says nothing about the things we sit around and pray for. I'm not saying prayer is nothing at all but it's not a cure all.
Quite honestly, expressing gratitude is the highest form of prayer and then you request nothing.
In order for things to change, first and foremost, we must demand that our politicians crawl out from under the thumb of the NRA and those who lobby on their behalf. They must enact a set of laws as strict or stricter as the 10 which I'm proposing below:There needs to be a heavy burden of responsibility, duty and accountability alongside the right to own a gun. 
I mean something way more significant than the non invasive background checks and laughable waiting periods. 

1. Owners must have $1,000,000 minimum insurance policy that covers wrongful death or injury caused by their firearm.
2. Gun dealers must have at least a $15 million insurance policy covering wrongful death or injury caused by a weapon they sold. If more than one claim is filed against them in a five year period they must increase it to $30 million. If another claim happens in the lifetime of that business they are shut down permanently.
3. ATF agents are on duty and onsite at each point of sale to verify the legitimacy of such sale and the qualifications of the purchaser.
4. Gun owners must register their firearms and gun safe in person monthly. Failure to do so results in severe fines, forfeiture of firearm and minimum jail time plus a lifetime ban from gun ownership 
5. Losing or having your gun stolen is a crime with a minimum mandatory jail sentence.
6. Possession of an unregistered firearm results in a minimum mandatory jail sentence and a lifetime ban of ownership.
7. Gun owners will be held civilly and legally responsible for any deaths or injuries caused as a result of their firearms, even if gun was lost or stolen plus a lifetime ban from gun ownership. 
8. Gun owners must pass a minimum standard psychological exam quarterly at their own expense. Failure to pass results in a ban from gun ownership until such an exam is passed two consecutive times. 
9. ATF agents will randomly conduct responsible firearm ownership inspections to insure the registered owner does in fact have possession of their firearm in a functioning gun safe and all required insurance. Failure to pass inspection results in a lifetime ban from gun ownership.
10. Implement a gun ownership tax which goes directly to funding all of the above measures and benefits the victims and families of gun related tragedies. Failure to pay results in forfeiture of firearms until taxes are current and a recertification and re-registration of gun ownership once taxes are no longer delinquent. 

I know many people will disagree with this but I no longer care about not offending those who hold their right to bear arms sacred. I'm not advocating the repealing of the 2nd amendment. I am lobbying for stricter regulation and oversight to ensure responsible gun ownership. I'm proposing a solution to the epidemic of mass shooting that has reached a tipping point so massive that there  has been more mass shootings in American than days in 2016. 
The arguments for the rights of gun owners is being deafened by the wall of dead bodies who are victims of those rights. Point blank. No pun intended.