There are a lot of smoke screens but the simple fact still remains, nearly all of the mass shooters were all mentally ill. So ill that if you use the words "criminally insane", it will not be far fetched. But yet this is a gun issue, not a mental health issue. Why is this so? It probably because we value the civil liberties of the extremely mentally ill people, over the safety and health of the public. So thousands of words are used for gun control but none for the treatment of the extremely mentally ill. We relied on drugs and out-patient care to treat out mentally ill population. In Alaska, if you want a long term care for your mental illness....you have to go to prison. Do think on that before anyone blame an inanimate object. We can blame the guns, once Skynet come on line!!!