Europe is experiencing a deadly heatwave in 2026 — the Guardian reports it as the worst on record with 200,000 deaths across the continent in four years and nearly half of major cities facing unprecedented heat stress. The author is calling for climate activism similar to gun control advocacy after mass shootings: public funerals, lawsuits against fossil fuel companies, and naming responsibility rather than treating deaths as isolated tragedy. What's missing is that while heat deaths are real and rising, the comparison to gun violence casualty rates oversimplifies the causality question — heat waves are complex phenomena influenced by multiple factors (infrastructure, poverty, access to cooling) where individual culpability is distributed differently than with gun manufacturers.