No, we have to blame it on an electorate that isn't able to discern reality from fantasy. Some of that is engineered, but mostly it is the result of an electorate that doesn't really care. How do we get them to care?
This has a lot to do with "fact free news". It used to be that if Walter Cronkite said it on the news, it was probably mostly true. Now people go on TV and pretend to be news and present any opinion as essentially equal, even about things that are not subject to opinion. So you see a story with one moron saying "the earth is flat" and one scientist saying "the earth is roughly spherical". A certain percentage of people (about the same percentage as Trump supporters) will decide to believe the flat-earth guy.
Maybe we need a big red band saying FALSE at the bottom of the TV whenever the story is BS and a big green band saying TRUE when it is objectively true. Then the morons could just follow the color coding, and only illiterate color-blind Americans would go in for mass shootings.
