[Bring_Back_Shantz]

Originally Posted by Envitro

The one thing I'll say, regardless of guns, is is anybody asking the question of "Why?"

Why is this happening so frequently? It's not like the gun or the availability of guns causes people to go on a shooting rampage?

I'm really interested in the root cause of this systemic issue in the U.S.

Now, I guess we have to be really careful since we can't talk about the U.S. as a contiguous nation when it comes to gun laws, cultural, or socio-economic factors, but I'd love to hear some theories on why this is an issue in the U.S.

It has been asked and answered.
The answer is guns, and it always has been.

Does the presence/availability of guns cause people to go on shooting rampages? Of course not.
But it absolutely ALLOWS people to do it.
The rest of the world doesn't have this level of gun violence because we/they have cracked the nut on making people not want to hurt each other, we don't have it because we've figured out maybe making it easy for every to get deadly weapons whenever they want isn't a good idea.

Do people really think there is a reason people in the US WANT to do these sorts of things more than other countries?

Why are people so committed to ignoring the fact that more guns = more shootings that they are willing to instead argue that there is something in the American DNA that makes them more violent than the rest of the world?