[notzorbo3]

I agree with everything you said, however

> The more likely cause is the legal structure around gun ownership in the United States.

Gun ownership may be an enabler in mass shootings, but I don't believe it's the cause. Merely having a gun doesn't automatically make you a mass murderer. There are other underlying issues there. Not that that means the U.S. shouldn't do something about the legal structure around gun ownership. It's probably going to be much much harder to actually address the underlying cause.

[graeme]

Sorry, I should have said "cause of the difference"

Obviously people don't go on sprees merely because they have a weapon. But they need gun access in order to commit a mass shooting.

I do agree there might well be some additional cause. I think if you flooded Canada with guns you would see more mass shootings, but perhaps not as much. The US does have an overall higher crime rate, after all. And mass shootings do occur elsewhere, though the US is consistently high up per capita.

[SlowRobotAhead]

“We must do something even if it’s the wrong thing.”

Sorry, that’s a fallacy I can’t get behind.