“We need to do something…”
Dangerous proposition to the people but gives more power to the government.
We do need to do something to stop this from happening.
My position is that these sorts of shootings started happening back in the 80s when they ended the mental asylum setup. If you look before then, no one went out and killed dozens of people whom they didn’t even know. Obviously, I may not have all the facts here, but it seems that after they ended psychiatric hospitals these incidents began to occur more frequently. ALSO, it seems that the rise of psych meds like Prozac started roughly around the same time. Could it be that these sorts of shootings mostly occur with shooters who have gone off their meds? Seems likely to me.
The fact that these two factors are not _ever_ topics of this mass-shooting conversation tells me that the government knows that this is what is happening and are trying to use these violent events as leverage to pass laws against protected rights, and law abiding citizens.