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Wildwood Crest - The root cause of the U.S.’s high number of mass shootings, is not mental illness. It is the colossal number of guns on American soil coupled with flimsy restrictions on who can buy firearms and what kind can be sold. When examined globally, the only consistent factor positively associated with higher rates of mass shootings is a higher rate of gun ownership. If Congress does not get this, then we need to get a new congress.