Reply To: Aurora
The only defense that we have against tragedies like these is to help out everyone that needs it. It so happens that countries with solid health care, and specifically mental health care, also have strong gun control laws. It is a better measure to look at class imbalance, education levels, and equality as it relates over all violence. This yields a stronger correlation but the overall system is too complex to label a causation.
When I can, I help the people who live in the woods by my home. I give them food, and more importantly advice on where to find better people to help them. Most of them are mentally ill, and desperate. They need help and don’t always get it. They are also the reason I don’t go into the woods unarmed. (Well, them and bears, but bears are a lot easier to avoid)