How many mass shootings?

I was going to ask what change you were hoping for, but I see that someone else has asked that and you said you would like to see us go back to once again being shocked by mass killings. So I guess the answer would be if killings once again became more rare.

Though I know that some, perhaps many, people here disagree with me about this, I personally am tired of seeing people blame guns for this. I know, if guns didn't exist, people couldn't shoot each other. But guns are here to stay. No laws are going to get rid of them, and criminals would just obtain them illegally anyway (and some probably already do). The thing that some people seem to forget is that guns are nothing new in America. They've been around since the days of the old west. But mass shootings are somewhat more new. So what happened? Is anyone actually interested in looking at the real causes of violence? (This includes bombings and other types of murders as well, by the way). Some things that are relatively new would include: Certain psychiatric medications that may have negative and possibly dangerous side effects. The general cheapening of human life, caused by society's acceptance of many things that were not considered socially acceptable 50 years ago. And possibly some other things that a lot of people aren't comfortable talking about.

Bottom line: We need to dig deep and find the real cause of the problem, and do something about that. Trying to ban guns is actually a distraction from this, not an honest effort to prevent more killings.

One more thing: Whenever people react to a shooting by saying this is yet another example of why guns need to be outlawed, I can't help feeling as though the deaths of those people who have been killed are being exploited to promote a political agenda. How much do we actually hear about those people who were killed? Do we even remember their names? Does anyone actually care about what the world lost when they died? Or are they more interested in using their deaths as ammunition in their fight to ban guns? It kind of disgusts me. If we do care about those people, and others whose lives might be lost, then I hope that people can start focusing on the real cause of the problem (what caused certain people to become killers), so more lives won't be lost - if people really care about that. But then, life is cheap. Those people who have been killed are apparently just numbers, to some anyway. 🤷‍♀️☹️

Sorry for the extra long response. Those are just my thoughts on the subject.