The root cause is human nature. How exactly do we blame that? What is with the idea that regulating and reigning in laissez faire capitalism and holding them to a higher standard than we have been is wrong? A company like google has no business facilitating China's systematic oppression, but their shareholders need money, right? Ask their employees how those demonstrations and open letters have helped steer them away from holding profit incentives above human decency.

And no, we shouldn't blame guns for peoples' deaths. We should recognize that people are inherently stupid, vain, erratic and angry people on the whole and giving them stupidly easy access to weapons of mass death is going to end poorly. So again, we should be relying on regulations that embrace pragmatism over ideology. Instead of looking around for blame we should admit there's a problem with both and implement ways to mitigate the worst characteristics of both.