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when the root problem is unaddressable

when the root problem of gun violence is 'people having moments of unhingedness"

And here's where the statement falls apart - you've provided nothing showing the root causes of firearm violence to be unaddressable. Heck, specific to mass shootings, the problems - including "unhingedness" - are very well-understood and very addressable. Specific to aggressive dogs, the common theme raised in these discussions - especially in criticism of this breed-behavior nonsense - is that the person behind the dog is the problem. I'm interested in hearing how you see that as unaddressable.

Again, this is why America is the only western country in the world where the number one cause of death for children is gun violence.

Would that be the NEJM study which directly recognizes the reasons for such an anomaly are unclear in the same breath it recognizes the overlap with the time of crisis and desperation (hmm, where have we seen that before...) that was the COVID-19 pandemic as if to highlight an explanation, ignores that there were other significantly more severe increases in causes of child deaths (e.g. drug overdose and poisoning), intentionally combines suicide and homicide as if they're the same, and generally disregards everything in favor of a single distilled talking point? One that specifically avoids asking why and exploring the anomaly?

Worry not, Pew Research explored the anomaly somewhat - of note:

• "Boys, for example, accounted for 83% of all gun deaths among children and teens in 2021. Girls accounted for 17%."
• "Older children and teens are much more likely than younger kids to be killed in gun-related incidents. Those ages 12 to 17 accounted for 86% of all gun deaths among children and teens in 2021"
• "Racial and ethnic differences in gun deaths among kids are stark. In 2021, 46% of all gun deaths among children and teens involved Black victims, even though only 14% of the U.S. under-18 population that year was Black. Much smaller shares of gun deaths among children and teens in 2021 involved White (32%), Hispanic (17%) and Asian (1%) victims."
• "There are also major racial and ethnic differences in the types of gun deaths involving children and teens. In 2021, a large majority of gun deaths involving Black children and teens (84%) were homicides, while 9% were suicides. Among White children and teens, by contrast, the majority of gun deaths (66%) were suicides, while a much smaller share (24%) were homicides."

I wonder if there are, say, any long-standing inequality issues regarding opportunity & desperation between some of these demographics, issues which may be thematically similar with observations raised of mass shootings... Nah, it's gotta be what the headline said.

Yes we do, read any of the past century of the history of eugenics and youll see the horrible outcomes that result when you try to prevent it.

I see the irony here flew right by you. You're entirely okay eradicating an entire breed of a living thing because you're angry with it / scared of it / just don't like it, but balk at humanity having done the same before to its own? Interesting.

It is absolutely insane how fucking deluded you are.

Had you actually addressed a point anywhere in this conversation, I'd have given that some consideration.

You can see literally orders of magnitude more western people looking at your children getting slaughtered for no reason but go ‘nope, Merica always the best, never wrong about anything, no mistakes in our history of decision making’.

Quite the opposite - we, instead, seek to solve underlying issues rather than only caring how the violence occurred. You could learn a thing or two from seeking to improve lives. Also, never wrong about anything? Lmao.