People deliberately and intentionally misdirecting the attention to guns when most people are fearful of the fact he got killed for having different opinions. Anyone with empathy can tell that if people normalize such killing, what's stopping people from killing others for different opinions like the typical extremists? Would you live in such society where your life is always at risk because you don't share opinions with others, like even your family and (ex)friends?
But the killings are already normalized in USA, he is quite literally just another gun death. Why would there be any surprise even when the motivation behind the kill is probably the difference of opinion? Road rage = get shot, you look at someone the wrong way = get shot, argument in the store = get shot, vlogging/video in a sus neighbourhood = get shot etc.
Does the act of condemning the killing do anything at all to deter potential assassinations in the near future? Of course not, I reckon it would do the opposite as any potential political shooter knows it will make them even more notorious.
Like Charlie himself lived there, there's no way he don't know their populace got a lot of siao lang one, and then from what I gather he spewed a lot of insidious stuff that triggered others. So trigger happy siao lang = someone eventually dies from speaking their opinion. If I were to live in such a society, I will be sure to not be racist/transphobic etc etc. Freedom of speech is not freedom of consequence.
Luckily SG not so siao since we are mostly neutered, racism/transphobia are typically clamped down by the authorities, and we don't have access to firearms
Which bring it to the core of the issue, both firearms and mental health play a big part in his death. It's not a misdirection of any sort. But they don't have the will in them to work towards an improvement