In the hours following a violent rampage in Ohio in which a lone attacker filled at least 5 individuals and injured several others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs. Investigators concluding that there was no way to prevent this massacre from taking place.
“This was a terrible tragedy, sometimes these things happen and there’s nothing anyone can do about it,” stated an Colorado resident, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations.
“It’s a shame, but what can we do?”