Usual situation is you hear of a mass shooting, ask where, hear it's America, and your reaction is a simple, "ah, ok".
That's shocking really, as if it doesn't register even the slightest shock factor any more.
It's impossible for any of us not born or living in America to understand their "culture".
That something created a tonne load of years ago "the constitution" seems to be the defence against all these shootings, the absolute insane inability to consider that everything else has changed immeasurably since the days it was created, so why on earth not the guns thing?
The depressing thing, is that people who debate this aren't even trying to debate "no guns", but more the type of guns, or limiting you to fewer guns if you have massive dodgy background and suchlike.
The bit that permanently showed you it's a lost battle was when they suggested that the way to deal with school shootings, was to introduce MORE guns into the mixer for teachers.
Just the absolute friggery?!
Americans try and say we havea knife problem, which we may do. But knives aren't just used to kill people, and it is illegal to wander around with them outside the home anyway!