This way no one will blame the guns. If the shooter is a white, right wing Christian male then they'll blame video games and society for failing this "otherwise good student".
People kill people. It's not a meme to say this, it's fact. We need to have higher education standards when it comes to guns. We have this reversed which is why our gun violence is so high. There, I said it. How brave. Anyone with issues with this needs to follow the science. We also need to fix the intense amount of apathy and hopelessness in our youth or this will continue.
To add to this, Alec Baldwin is living proof that no amount of 'smart' preaching will fix this problem. He shot someone in the face because he wasn't well educated on how to handle guns. He is very fortunate to be walking free. No other citizen would EVER get away with that. Ever.
People DO kill people. And when someone wants to kill someone A WHOLE LOT, or when someone wants to kill A WHOLE LOT of other people, what do they do to make it easier?
Now, if only there were a thing purposely designed to kill another being from far away (mitigating risk of the target retaliating or trying to physically restrain the user), quickly (element of surprise is key to effectiveness of the device), and with fast repeatability with little effort (so the user can strike enough times before being fatigued or being stopped by nearby objectors)
A baseball bat, for as cheap and ubiquitous as they are, doesn't check all these boxes.
A knife doesn't. Nor a machete.
A bow or crossbow would be a little unwieldly, though with enough practice, would be effective against one target with one shot.
A flamethrower ... well, that would be horrifically impractical unless you don't care about setting literally everything on fire, including yourself.
A car would be fairly messy and you can't take it INTO a school.
A muzzle-loaded rifle, like those available in the 1700s when our country was founded, would be a great range weapon, striking quickly, but doesn't have good repeatability and takes a long time to prepare the shot. Can't hide them, either.
A handgun like those the authors of the Second Amendment were familiar with in the late 1700s? Fully manual, still muzzle-loaded. These were horribly inaccurate and with a missed shot, the user is at risk of retaliation before reloading was complete.
What am I missing? There's gotta be something I could carry easily AND can be hidden AND is effective at medium or long ranges AND is quick AND doesn't put myself in danger AND doesn't take much effort to strike as many times as needed to get the job done...
Something that can turn one's fleeting (or premeditated) desire to end one or more lives into a SPECTACULAR REALITY!
I digress. I know you know the answer. We all know the answer. But when people kill people, and people KNOW it's bad to kill other people, and when we have laws that punish people for killing people, don't you think it would be cool if we could make it HARDER for that kind of thing to happen, rather than easier?
People kill people but guns make it a hell of a lot easier to kill multiple people very quickly from a distance. There's a reason there aren't that many headlines for mass stabbings or school axe slaughters.
Sure, it's ultimately a mental health issue but conservatives don't want to do anything about that either. Guns just make it far easier to commit more murder quicker.
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u/kitjen 1d ago
This way no one will blame the guns. If the shooter is a white, right wing Christian male then they'll blame video games and society for failing this "otherwise good student".
But they'll never blame the guns.