What do all these mass shootings have in common? Is there anything we can do to mitigate the impacts of these commonalities? We are not going to be able to treat this as a mental health issue, that just a deflection and shows a lack of understanding of these illnesses. This behavior of murdering as many people as you can as quickly as you can is now a regular option. As a people, we are better than this, we have to be. It shouldn't be this hard to protect our communities.