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That's quite a pessimistic outlook. You can find inner peace even though you're being harassed.

I don't know, if you hear about the accounts of the parents of children killed in Sandy Hook, I don't think inner peace was available. Many had to move or go into hiding. Imagine, after losing a child in such a horrific way, that you also need to somehow start an entirely new life in a strange place because strangers think you're a crisis actor and threaten your life.

Externalities matter.

Nobody is arguing that externalities don't matter. You have to respond to events that happen in your life.

Inner peace is whether those families can come to terms with what happened and be happy, or whether they will live in emotional turmoil forever.

I think it's extremely hard to come to terms with what happened and be happy, if what happened (or rather, what is happening) is "I'm currently being chased out of my own home because people online want me dead because my child was gunned down in a domestic terrorist attack".

You'd think so, but some of the autobiographies of Holocaust survivors appear to show that it's possible.

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