There is no way to stop mass shootings in this country!

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44. One other thing I should have added that I think is very important,

and I guess this goes to the opening line of your OP, but in addition to heightened gun regulations, I think we need a real revolution in this country in the way we treat people with mental illnesses and the way we diagnose and treat them. Yes, all of these shooters were heavily, heavily armed with weapons and ammunition that should have been a lot harder for them to get than simply walking into their local "Gunz-R-Us" and asking for them. But the other common factor cutting across all these mass shootings is that the majority -- if not the very substantial majority -- of these shooters have had diagnosed (or sometimes undiagnosed, but strongly suggested) mental disorders or impairments of a serious nature. And in America today, we still stigmatize mental illnesses and those who suffer from them, and there is so much variability of treatment that I have to conclude that at least a sizeable proportion of those treatments are ineffective at best (many talk therapies) and actively counterproductive at worst (many pharmaceutical treatments).

And I will be the first to acknowledge that this is a very thorny problem, fraught with larger implications for individual liberties and so forth, that I think we absolutely need to address, but I'm not sure how . . . .

I think it's really the last line of your OP that set me off, though. The idea that since there's no solution likely to completely eliminate the problem, we should just move on and not worry our pretty little minds about it anymore, focus on frying other fish.