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He could try, but he can't be everywhere - that one takes vigilance to stop before it happens, i.e. us.
And by vigilance, you mean changing laws to ban free possession of weapons, hopefully?
Murder was already banned, and it keeps happening.
And yet the consistent element between the countries with lots of mass shooting vs the ones with very few of them is how easy respectively difficult it is to get a weapon. Coincidence? Possible. But there's enough evidence to suggest there's a causal link, and a significant one.