But I think in order to discuss gun violence in America we also need to discuss a whole host of other domestic issues, which contribute to it. One of these issues is that gun violence (and a large amount of violence in America, including exorbitant rates against women) is related, in part, to an American public that has become desensitized to violence and suffering while producing them. This is where I agree that the media, but also a highly techno-militarized nation, play a large role. We can mobilize drones to wipe out families thousands of miles away with the touch of a button in the name of freedom and democracy and fund foreign militaries who isolate and destroy entire communities in the name of defense, while at home we have the highest incarceration rates and a broken health care system. These various forms of indirect and direct violence on foreign and domestic bodies (literally) surely cannot produce a safe environment, at least with regards to weaponry.