> "But the brutal truth is that they are a part of the nature of our species, inherent and practically unstoppable. " We may never stop all violence, but this

> "But the brutal truth is that they are a part of the nature of our species, inherent and practically unstoppable. " We may never stop all violence, but this debate is worth having specifically because other societies of our species (i.e., not American) have been able to achieve much lower rates of violence in their societies than we have. Not everywhere is as violent as the USA. These mass shootings are statistical outliers no matter which way you cut it, but violent crime (involving firearms or otherwise) in the US is substantially higher than many developed nations. The question remains as to how, and why, these other nations have been able to achieve a dramatically lower incident rate of violence. BTW, there are ~7 billion people on Earth, not trillion. > "People who are so mentally bent as to carry out heinous acts of violence against other humans will always find a way." Violent crime is not in and of itself indicative of mental illness. There are many perfectly rational (at least at the local level) reasons to hurt or kill someone.