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"Skip to" isn't quite fair, because the million things that can be done need to be done by tens of millions of people, and not everybody has those opportunities. So for some, "Guess I'll get a gun while I still can," is just the next thing they can do after voting and protesting and calling and writing and donating and speaking, because we've been taught for a long time that that's how these things go and the best defense is being armed.
And even beyond that, saying "You Americans" as though we're all a like-minded group is as silly as assuming that everyone is from the US.
Everyone has a bunch of opportunities between doing nothing and "here I go killing again". Everyone. But (and yeah, I'm engaging in generalisations, but you're not beating the allegations so to speak) "you Americans" always put "I need to start shooting people" waaaay up high on the hierarchy or possibilities.