Do Something(TM) That Won't Hurt Constitutional Rights

After every major shooting loud swaths of the country rise up and shout that politicians must do something. The gun rights community hates this. We shout back: Logic! Reason! Avoid emotional actions! Not one more inch! This response is no longer effective. Florida shows us anti-civil rights advocates are now effectively organized, prepared, and capable of achieving gun-owner control - even in ostensibly pro-gun states. Democrats have gone full gun grab and Republicans are picking up the divide and conquer flag.

What can we do? One idea: Copy effective tactics. More specifically:

• Organize gun owners. NRA has an extensive network full of both knowledgeable advocates and gun clubs. Hand pick 10-15 effective gun rights advocates and fly them from gun club to gun club to train local advocacy groups in techniques that work.
• Propose solutions to violence that do not hurt the gun rights cause. Package these proposals in an anti-violence omnibus bill and give it a snazzy name about stopping mass shootings, violence, whatever. Next time our rights are under threat, push this bill as hard as bills will be pushed to further erode our constitutional rights. 

I want to elaborate on the second point. As a community, we are prone to taking any proposal and responding with walls of text that read like they were written by this guy:

This is missing the forest for the trees. We need to buy time to organize gun owners. In the mean time, we need a way to deflect calls to do something that too often result in gun control. What better way than to propose alternative legislation that doesn't hurt our constitutional rights? This gives politicians an alternative, it counters arguments that gun rights groups refuse to act on violence, and it just might win some hearts and minds from the centrist crowd.

What to propose? Good news! We can copy effective tactics again. We do not actually have to be completely convinced our proposals will work, but they must: 1. be something, 2. not hurt our constitional rights, and 3. be serious.

Before you read my ideas, holster your ackchyuallys and re-read the sentence above. Some ideas:

1. Push to decriminalize drugs and improve existing state run rehab facilities.
   
2. Create incentives to enforce laws that are already on the books. Sanction officials that fail to act. Defund agencies that continually fail to act. Spend that money on existing agencies that will.
   
3. Take some of our extremely large military budget and spend it employing veterans as security, civilian firearms trainers, and firearm safety program leaders at the local level.
   
4. Create federal tax credits for gun safes and firearm safety courses.
   
5. Create grants and subsidies for those pursuing education in mental health that agree to spend a designated subset of their time working in underserved communities.

Will these proposals work? Maybe, maybe not. Worst case, they are something(TM). Best case, they actually make the world a better place.

What do you propose?