re: How can American society fix this mass shooter phenomenon?

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If our murder problems are worse than other countries

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It’s not - there are worse places.

Plus, in the countries where it’s hard to get guns doesn’t mean there are no murders. This has already been touched upon in this thread - I think. A lunatic who wants to kill will.

Plus in the USA most crime committed with a gun is with an illegally acquired gun. There’s no way to stop that.

We need to normalize and dramatically improve mental healthcare from a young age. And that should not cost an arm and a leg to do. We have to address these things at the cause and get people the help they need early when signs are identified. I’m not just taking about shoving pills down their mouth either, that causes a whole different set of circumstances. Holistic and affordable healthcare solutions needs to be widely and easily available.

It’s also WAYYYY too easy to get a firearm. Licensing and training, higher costs will price out some of the problematic types from accessing them. Of course we’ll never fully solve it, but we can mitigate.

This will naturally get hate which I’ll never understand. I’m not suggesting confiscating everyone’s guns ... I’m saying they should be registered and more stringent qualifications to own one in the first place. Even renewals of that periodically - mental health issues could result, maybe from from a traumatic event, AFTER a person acquires weapons and was found to be perfectly normal at the time. To help with the issue of unregistered weapons, buyback programs have worked before. No questions asked, no risk of indictment, just a trade of money for supplies.

Solutions exist, people just don’t want to do their part and take personal accountability to improve society as a whole same as anything else. Always “me, me, me.” Money plays a factor also like anything else.