I was in a hotel and saw your show on the TV and I was so excited seeing you on one of the channels. I was almost like the John Hill memes that got so popular. The excitement was because you were so active on Steem and you really made it big.
Oh, the gun issue...
Reading through the comments, I see that folks are too easy to mix mass shootings with high homicide rates. They are completely different animals. Gun control in the US would be a very difficult task if not impossible. It would be like banning candy on Halloween. While proper gun control might have a reduction in gun related homicides, the mass shootings will unfortunately continue.
The younger generation grew up with mass shootings as a thing, It wasn't really a thing when I was young. Back then, there were only 3 television stations. NBC, ABC, and CBS. Their news dominated without competition. Then came satellite dishes, MTV, cable, more channels, movie rental stores, internet, social media, YouTube, Netflix, and on and on... Now news takes a back seat to all the possible forms of entertainment.
GUNS in large quantities and with ease of access in the US have been around for much longer than mass shootings. So what has changed? Most media sources typically hang the noose around gun control, mental health, political rhetoric, or a combination of all three. I would have to say that mental health and political rhetoric have gotten better. Many may not be old enough to remember when the KKK was a thing and it wasn't uncommon that politicians were members. Mental health was a thing that people didn't know how to deal with or treat when I was young. There has been a change though, It just is not what everyone is looking at or talking about.
What has changed drastically in my lifetime is media. It is my opinion that there will always be crazy people out there with crazy agendas. A small percentage of those crazy people will have a need to bring to the forefront topics that deeply affect them. Those few in their twisted minds will force that agenda upon everyone with mass shootings and the aid of media. News media is desperate to feed upon the energy that mass shootings creates and breathes life back into their outlets. The crazies can make themselves infamous while pushing their agenda while news gets a boost in ratings. It is a partnership that I have never seen when I was young.
Can we change it? Nope... It would be way more challenging than the task of banning guns in the US or banning candy on Halloween...