Your own arguments don't add up though. Shootings are so common they aren't even reported locally (which is bullshit) to any possible shooting is so aggressively covered everyone wants to be at it.

UK shootings gain the exact same US media if not more and it's exactly the same every time a US shooting happens. In fact we get the ability to report that news with some slight moral superiority so if anything we report it more.

Yet still no one really asks kids why they do it.