I think you're being a bit paranoid. The only school shootings I can think of that rose to the level of national consciousness this year were the DC shootings that came together within a period of weeks. But one would expect anything happening inside the beltway that is local news in other locations, to become national news because of the concentration of media there.

I honestly can't name another school shooting that occurred this year in any other location, except our one local one in Minnnesota.

And I would disagree that gun violence is mostly about hopelessness. I believe it is anger and rage at others we can't control.

I did read an idiotic "attack the liberal" sort of article in the wake of Columbine, that was admonishing "white liberals" for not seeing the gun violence in their own communities due to (fill in the blank with your favorite anti-youth stereotype) and lack of discipline.

Bullshit. Our high school has a pretty active student and staff anti-gun lobby group called "Minnesotans Against Being Shot". Right now we are lobbying at the state legislature to get the idiotic conceal and carry law introduced by our fascist Republican governor last session, and passed by the Republican dominated legislature. The Republicans claimed that there was a great hue and cry among gun owners, who were demanding their rights to not just have their guns at home, but in church, school, universities, hospitals, etc.

So the passed this idiotic conceal and carry law. Less than half the number of permit applications the Republicans INSISTED was a conservative estimate of the number of people who wanted permits, have been applied for, a year later.

So much for gun owners' hue and cry, and demands for their constitutional rights.

Remember, guns don't kill people, people with guns kill people.