Subject: Re: Unfortunate fact of life
“I don’t like that this is a fact of life,” Mr. Vance said, adding that he believed gun restrictions were not the way to effectively prevent school shootings. “We have got to bolster security in our schools.”

Bullshit!

Better gun laws ARE the answer as is plainly apparent in other modern democracies.

Indeed. I was in Japan and got curious about exactly what happened in Japan and how far the murder rate had dropped. I found that after WW2

SNIP Japan murder/homicide rate for 2021 was 0.23, a 9.93% decline from 2020. Japan murder/homicide rate for 2020 was 0.25, a 0.12% increase from 2019. Japan murder/homicide rate for 2019 was 0.25, a 4.12% decline from 2018. SNIP

Here's USA:
SNIP
U.S. Murder/Homicide Rate - Historical Data
Year Per 100K Population Annual % Change
2020 6.42 28.78%
2019 4.99 1.14%
2018 4.93 -5.99% SNIP

When I did it the USA was at ~4.5% and Japan was .2%. But guess what, after WW2 Japan was at 4.5% and it steadily declined. In fact the decline followed the die off of the WW2 generations.

Much reading later I deduced that successive generations had rejected the emperor and their bloody past and were non-violent. Nearly all of the murders after WW2 were done by the WW2 adults as the murder rate declined. And I found nothing that supported this view until years later. Someone had published a paper with stats and charts that supported this. But the Japanese do NOT talk about this.

We need better more cooperative citizens willing to compromise. Instead of being horrified by the carnage, we've come to accept it.