Gun Control & RKBA

This is because Republicans are running the country, thanks in large part to the Democrats' irrational and emotional proposals on gun laws.

The mass shootings are easy enough to explain. You see, it's become normalized.

The media doesn't really report on suicides because they're afraid of normalizing it, of inspiring others to commit suicide. For example, the news doesn't report a tally of people that committed suicide by jumping from a particular bridge anymore, as they noticed that there were more jumpers as the tally approached milestones (e.g., 100).

The same media completely saturates news coverage with mass shootings, though. We marinate in it using social media, conventional media, and in-person social gatherings. So of course there are copycats.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/08/06/748767807/mass-shootings-can-be-contagious-research-shows

And then we normalize it further, with mass shooter drills at our schools just to hammer home into our kids' skulls that getting dumped by your middle-school crush is a perfectly normal and expected reason to bring a gun to school and blow a few random classmates away. The kids bringing guns to school are the ones that have been through these drills since kindergarten, and now we're reaping the results.

But, hey, you keep talking about mass shootings all the time.

Keep talking about banning assault weapons, too, so we can have Trump in the White House again in 2024 while boosting gun sales (again) over the next couple of years. After all, you've only costs of three presidential terms and six SCOTUS justices since 2000; surely you can add to the count before the decade is out.