It's no secret that despite the slowing crime rate, America suffers from a rising prevalence in mass shooting cases.

It's been debated by Democratic and Republican politicians for years in addition to average U.S. citizens who are either for or against gun ownership. And every time a new mass shooting happens, the noise gets louder and the discussions grow longer. 

According to National Review, Democratic Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton asked, "How many more Americans need to die before we take action?" That is in response to last year's Planned Parenthood Clinic shooting in Colorado Springs.

Just days after the Colorado incident, the San Bernardino attack happened, which took the lives of 14 people, with 22 seriously hurt. Unfortunately, apart from these two newer incidents -- which happened almost simultaneously -- many attacks also recently happened before.

So the big question comes, is America's lax gun control to blame for the rise of mass shooting incidents? Democrats seem to think so as they pushed for the reform of these laws and called for stricter background checks.

Gun proponents and most of the members of the GOP, on the other hand, cited that reform and stricter background checks will not solve the growing plague that is affecting the U.S.

Case in point, it was reported that Colorado already had been very strict on background checks two years even before the shooting happened, yet it did not prevent the perpetrator from committing his planned onslaught.

According to Joseph Heath, a Philosophy professor from the University of Toronto, when people encounter social issues like gun violence, they tend to attribute the cause of these problems to what they like to be the reason, the Economist has learned. 

Simply put, if someone experienced first hand a mass shooting, and if that someone is against gun ownership, he will hastily correlate gun ownership as the reason why the mass shooting occured, while neglecting actual data that may say otherwise.

Furthermore, it should be noted that gun control issues are not solely to blame for these incidents, but also America's culture of violence and obsession with fame.

Live Science reported that the United States has more private gun ownership and more desire for fame than any other country in the world.

Christopher Harper-Mercer, the perpetrator to the Umpqua Community College Shooting was reported to have been inspired by the Sandy Hook incident. Moreover, Harper Mercer said that one of the reasons he planned the shooting was for him to get noticed.

According to Mary Muscari, a forensic nurse, said that shooters, "Especially some of the younger ones -- they want attention." She added, "That's why you see them wanting to have a bigger head count, a bigger body count, to try to outdo the last one or to do something that is going to cause more of a rise."

Gun violence is a complicated socio-cultural problem and it needs to be addressed accordingly. Gun control laws may be a step in the right direction, but it must not stop there.