MORE available guns being the direct causation of more gun DEATHS; seems pretty cut and dry to the logical thinker.
Do we ALL need high-powered assault rifles to defend our homesteads from bears and scary foreign folks, or do CERTAIN people need them to feel 'powerful' and compensate for tiny wieners? A question for the ages!
Something to note: Although I am anti censorship (for the most part), do you feel that our increasingly insane romance with guns in this country might have anything at all to do with this rash of public/random shootings in recent years? Pay special attention to the video game 'culture', especially. Notice how, beginning around a dozen or so years ago, so many of the most popular franchises began focusing heavily on everything from sniping-centric games to things like "realistic weapon mechanics" and squad shooters? Back when I was coming up we played stuff like Pac-Man, Mario, and adventure games, and I'd never even heard of a mass public shooting at the time. (And this was during the Rambo/Reagan-shoot-everything-that-moves era, so you certainly cannot allow film to enter the argument!) These days, there seems to be a new massacre every other week.....can't be all coincidence, can it, especially with so much glorification of guns in video games to the point where many of them are little more than thinly veiled recruitment tools for the US Military?
(Seriously, watch the recruitment ads - hilarious and bleak at the same time!)
I don't feel that modern video games are to be fully blamed for this decay in common sense and thirst for gunplay, but they can sure as hell act as catalysts and in some cases accelerants, especially among our younger folks/Millennials. Simply look around you...
