Mix extremely liberal gun ownership laws (the right wing hates that expression, but that's what they pass) with a bunch of traumatized returning vets with Fox Noise with National Hate Radio with poor mental health care and.....well, what did you expect?

Considering how lousy a job the VA is doing taking care of their mental health needs, they'll be more of a factor than less of one.

have involved returning vets? How many in Chicago since this is the OP story location? I think it is more drug and gang related and non of the criminals has even been in the military.

Cho, Lanza, Holmes, Rodgers - no vets there.

steroids

perhaps we'll get the number down if we do something about white men in the US.

I can tell you this, though, that talking about gun control will lead nowhere, so perhaps a tack to take is to talk about white men, and what to do to stop them from blowing their aggression all over everyone else.

your "solution" doesn't address them.

As you can see in the title "When did mass shootings become so mundane in America." White men constitute 34% of Americas population, but are the perpetrators of 75% of the mass shootings. It seems obvious to me that if we want to do something about mass shootings, we need to start looking at white men. White women, women of color, men of color should presumably have the same access to guns as white men, but they don't have the same number who direct their rage outwards in violence. Therefore, to me, it seems logical what the starting point for the discussion should be.



But I think that is not what you wanted to know... If you want my opinion on guns and gun deaths - living in Norway as I do, I see the obsession even many liberals have with the possession of guns in the US, the way they are seen as the symbol of freedom, the fear that so many have which makes them need guns to psychologically protect themselves as absolutely the sign of a sick, sick society. The people who would rather keep the right to have guns than to prevent the mass murder of children by controlling the possession of guns are to me mentally sick. The idea that owning a gun is more important than protecting the weak is a symptom of the rot that will destroy America's democracy, if it ever had any, and is destroying proper civilization in the US.

my only point. Gun violence in America comes in all colors.

Then when it wasn't, people kind of threw up their hands. Not everyone, mind you, but that's when we found out the Crazies were in charge and weren't going to let go.