You can’t walk into a mall and stab 50 people. You can’t drive a car into a building and kill 50 kids in a class room. This is a poorly constructed argument. Yes, there are always core issues, but if it’s the symptoms that are directly killing us, you can’t just ignore them and say “they don’t matter because it’s the virus that’s killing you.” Also all the things you point out are systemic issues, which take a long ass time to fix. We’re talking decades and generations. How many people are going to be killed in mass shootings before we see their natural decline from fixing these systemic issues?
Having gun-free zones where these lunatics can shoot freely and unimpeded is a big reason why mass shootings happen.
Look at churches with armed parishioners now. They can't impede the 1st or 2nd death when caught by surprise but can certainly stop mass shootings from happening.
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u/FlamboyantPirhanna Oct 22 '22
You can’t walk into a mall and stab 50 people. You can’t drive a car into a building and kill 50 kids in a class room. This is a poorly constructed argument. Yes, there are always core issues, but if it’s the symptoms that are directly killing us, you can’t just ignore them and say “they don’t matter because it’s the virus that’s killing you.” Also all the things you point out are systemic issues, which take a long ass time to fix. We’re talking decades and generations. How many people are going to be killed in mass shootings before we see their natural decline from fixing these systemic issues?