Colbert I. King: Where we can do something about guns

“Thoughts and prayers,” “thoughts and prayers,” America’s go-to mantra as bodies are carted away from the scenes of mass shootings.The words were invoked after the massacres at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, and Texas’s First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs, and the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, and the Las Vegas outdoor Route 91 Harvest festival.It was our formulaic response to the shootings at Virginia Tech and Inland Regional Cente