Las Vegas Shooting- Why is talk limited to banning guns?

Another American mass shooting and all you hear about is banning guns and gun regulation. Why? Should there be better laws, such as those that bring people purchasing 33 guns in one year to the notice of the authorities (you would think with all the tracking in our society they would already have noticed something like this)? The problem is that I truly don't believe guns are the root of the problem, but the mass media (which is, in my opinion one major contributor) has too much money in politicians pockets--and would they really implicate themselves?

I want to see a ban on M rated video games. I want to see a ban on what prime time television can play. I want to see R movie ratings enforced and movie theaters that allow 5-year olds into R movies shut down. Television didn't become widely available in the United States until the mid-1950s. In the 1960's mass shootings doubled from the numbers of the 1950's. School shootings doubled in the 1950's from the 1940's. The American Psychological Association has done massive research in an attempt to fight against media and still we are always told after mass shootings that media is innocent-it is the guns. Violent media is "art." Violent media is "speech."

The very first M rated video game was also the video game the Columbine shooters loved. They dedicated an entire AOL page to it and creating new levels of it. How many more mass shootings can be traced directly to the media?

Mr. Paddock was born in the 1950's, just in time to watch a lifetime of violence. The media says there wasn't a motive or warning signs. I think anyone who suddenly purchases 33 guns in a year has a warning sign glaring over them. Every time you get a background check, you would think someone would be watching. Even if they aren't, that sounds like a warning to me.

In my opinion, he was a gambler. He might have played the numbers, but he wasn't against cheating in subtle ways. He asked his girlfriend which machines were "loose." He only played on machines, and interacted with people as little as possible. He felt the world owed him something. Sounds like some sort of mental disorder to me. Based on what else I know of him from the media, narcissism, OCD, and antisocial personality disorder seem to be possibilities. I don't debate that better mental health services that encourage people to seek mental health evaluations are important. Laws that allow adults to be checked into mental facilities based on their history and their current symptoms instead of whether or not they are going to immediately harm someone or themselves and the hard evidence you have to have for this (its difficult to come by hard evidence of anything a person is going to do especially if they are a little off).

But the troublesome matter is that mental health care can't be changed overnight. Gun regulations won't go into force overnight, and they certainly are not dealing with the REAL problem. The real problem is that media is making our society less caring and more desensitized to violence. Even news agencies are helping potential shooters by telling them what the last guy did wrong.

I don't know if the police will ever release and official motive, but it might be that gambling became too easy. Maybe he wanted another thrill. Whatever his motive, it is time we stop trying to ban guns without first banning M video games.