guns are the problem but that would be very naive.

Meth isn't the problem. The real problem is lack of dopamine that causes people to seek pleasure.

A bad diet doesn't cause obesity. It's the person's mental state that causes them to seek out food as comfort.

The only problem with this viewpoint is that people are inherently fucking crazy and you'll never ever fix that. So you need to restrict the things that allow them to hurt other people with their crazy. And when they're going to hurt themselves with their crazy, you do your best to help coach and guide and support them.

I think Michael Moore hit it pretty much straight on the head.

Having guns makes people feel empowered against others. A wimp can take down basically anyone if they create the right circumstances. So when people feel wronged, there's this huge itch to see that as a viable solution.

There isn't a single solution, but taking away (easy) access to guns is certainly a hugely efficient step

There is also this important but depressing website. https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/

don't mention ze war!

No its because everyone was on vacation!

Because nobody gives a shit lol

Imagine living in a country where having one school shooting every year would be a miraculous improvement. I really feel for the US.

More likely daily/weekly unfortunately

Tbf, this paints the picture that the issue isn't "the guns." If we also have more knife attacks, "guns" can't be "the reason" Americans are more violent than their oft compared counterparts. I'd wager it's something in the absolutely well known cocktail of economic disparity, general hopelessness, social isolation, instability abound, the pollution from chemical plants that led to our past serial killer problem (no really), and all the other factors that we know can contribute to more violence in a region.

It's also more helpful to compare a country to itself, it's possible factors other than "guns" can be the real reason. For instance, Japan may be less violent because they don't have guns, or they may be less violent because they're quietly an authoritarian police state that has police in your district inspect your house once a year "just in case" and they can hold you indefinitely if you're simply suspected and can force confessions leading to a suspiciously high conviction rate (spoiler: false convictions). Without being able to force people to confess to crimes they didn't do (legally, it does happen but it isn't allowed), who knows how that'd work here.

So with that in mind, comparing America now to America then, violent crime in the US has dropped steadily since 1993; and gun ownership has only gone up in that same time, in 2004 our "assault weapons ban" expired and violent crime is still falling, despite public perceptions fueled by 24/7 news media and their "if it bleeds it leads" scaremongering for ad revenue, of course.

big if true