The middle ground is actually very strange.
All the democrons need to go take shooting lessons.
And all junior gang members need to be given some puppy time.

The gun shootings are a direct result of thugs not seeing a way forward in life. Crony capitalism puts things further and further out of the reach of the common person. And, when it gets to hard to get it the "correct" way, then you get it the thuggish way.

This is a direct result of the central banks control of money.
So, destroy the debt and death paradigm of the criminal banking cartels, then get some real rough and tumble play between boys and men.
And then, most of the gun violence goes away.