Yep. Have become a problem since Reagans drug war, and the takeover of the Republican party by the warrior culture.
And they are definitely psycho media run. The end of the Fairness Doctrine, the beginning of right wing hate radio starting with Rush Limbaugh, then the television version of psycho hate media with Fox News, and it only morphed from their.
Now Donald Trump, and the MAGAMITES, have taken psychosis, and hate to a whole other level. I damn sure would make them suffer profoundly if I could. Wiping them from the face of the planet would be preferable.
And Australia proved after their last mass shooting, that you can absolutely end them, by ending gun culture, and prohibiting the possession of firearms by most people. Same thing in New Zealand.