(October 2, 2017 at 2:44 pm)Court Jester Wrote: Blah. 40,000 people in one location and a shooter at an elevated level with a fully automatic rifle. Lucky the death count isn't well into the hundreds.
I still don't blame the gun though.
Nobody is blaming an object.
You can blame the user for their attitude about the object.
Just like you'd be right to blame ISIS for their violent interpretation of the Koran.
If your kid thinks using his baseball bat to hit other kids is not ok, the bat isn't doing it no, but the kid IS USING THE BAT, and any sane parent would take the bat away.
So this is all "luck"?
So Newtown was also "luck"? Va Tec was "luck", Colombine was "luck", Charlston was "luck"?
No, just like last night, all of that was because we have one industry not giving a fuck where their products end up. None of this is "luck" but by design. Keep the violence up, the industry sells more weapons.
Most of our firearm deaths are not even from mass shootings. Most of them happen in the home or with someone the victim knew.
There is no "luck" going on here. There is one business industry with one lobby selling fear to protect our flooded market and ease of access. Fear and violence sell weapons.
