Suspect in custody after deadly mass shooting at LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs

I find the lack of funding around mental health to be so appalling it's a worthy footnote to things but mentally ill people exist in EVERY country and while America is not the ONLY country to ever suffer gun violence there's something uniquely american about it with us getting hit with more of them than everywhere else. Mental illness rates are going to be pretty uniform across the entire planet but somehow we have far more mass shootings than almost everywhere which tells you that while lack of access to mental health services and the lack of funding around it is quite frankly offensive it does NOT mean the primary issue is mental illness. it's the guns, its always been the guns and there's a lobby that's utterly determined to shift the focus away from them. if it were mental illness how is it that every other country seems to handle that one better than we do?