If I were to be asked what an 18-year-old boy would occupy himself with, I would easily go for the usual frivolities like Tik Tok, video gaming, partying, or most of the usual things that the average 18 year old would be preoccupied with. Never in my wildest dream would I think that a young man at the cusp of adulthood would be preoccupied with radical ideas like the "Great replacement theory" and obsessed enough to murder innocent lives. The shooting that occurred in Buffalo, New York, days ago is one of many, and from the perspective of someone like myself who migrated to this great country, we will always ask why stuff like this keeps happening. Gun violence and gun control is an age-old American conversation that appears to keep going back and forth with no measurable progress. I was still living in Nigeria when I first heard of the Columbine shooting, which at that time, was very big news. But these days, mass shooting just weaves its way in and out of the news, and in m