>Australia isn’t really a success at solving the underlying social issues. Definitely- the most recent mass shooting committed by an Australian national didn't

>Australia isn’t really a success at solving the underlying social issues. Definitely- the most recent mass shooting committed by an Australian national didn't even occur on Australian soil, but in Christchurch, NZ. >our cultural relationship with guns didn’t fetishise them as implements of power As opposed to the US, whose cultural relationship with school shooters sees them made Person of the Year by a popular nationwide magazine. Their media reports stories of "Could [popular movie] result in mass shootings?" throughout the time it was in the theaters to the point you'd wonder if it was actually part of a marketing campaign. Not actively promoting this particular kind of crime or the people who commit it would indeed be a good start to eliminating it but why do that when there's money and political hay to be made over it?