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DrPrimemaster posted...

But I bring up this example because I think it shows that other countries do have people that do this behaviour as well. And I want to hear why other people think that is.

The simple answer is that there are bad people in the world, and there unfortunately always will be. The reality is a bit more nuanced than that, but the bottom line is that you're never going to be able to stop everyone from doing bad things (not without extreme authoritarianism, at least).

The problem is that a lot of people take that sort of fatalistic approach to gun violence in the US, believing nothing can be done and that it's just human nature to have the occasional bad apple. That's not a particularly sensible approach, though, given that the situation is so much worse in the US than in many other countries (and without the clear justifications that most of the worse countries have, such as war). These incidents will never go away completely, but that doesn't mean there's no room for improvement.