Like Sandy Hook, Columbine and Aurora?
I think it’s mass psychosis and isn’t really necessarily one common cause. I also don’t think any law will curb it, it’s going to keep getting worse for the next 20 years or so.
I dont think it is one thing. But i think that in the case of stuff like sandy hook, its young people who either have older parents and because of that, were genetically fucked up from the start, causing mental instabilities. Or they were deemed 'adhd' or whatever other buzzword was agreed upon to relieve parents of the blame for being a shitty parent, and were then doped up to almost catatonic levels all through the formative years in a person's life when they are supposed to be learing interpersonal skills to deal with the shit that life throws at everyone. And when they decided to get away from their medication or their medication no longer was doing its job, did no have the skills to deal with trauma, whether real or perceived and resorted to a weapon.
I think that the stress levels in this country for most everyone are in the stratospheric levels, add to that, various reason for a large portion of this population either medicated for or haven't yet been diagnosed with some kind of mental issues and THAT is a large contributor
We love to medicate the fuck out of people, many time with medication that we don't even fully understand. I have seen more than a few meds for depression in commercials and the statement 'while we don't know exactly how XXXXXXX works...' How the fuck do you sell something that alters brain chemistry and not know how it works?
We live in a world where stimulation is constant 24/7-365, people are doped to the gills, dont know how to handle personal interactions and we have media in all its forms whipping that shit to a crescendo because fear sells.
My guess is if you got right down to it, it is a massive PILE of contributing factors that leads up to someone picking up a gun and going into a school. Taking a way guns just means they will use knives, or cars, or crock pots and the push to remove the AR15 specifically is way more politically motivated than it is a public safety concern.