It’s not abut guns, it’s not about method of killing (gun/car/van/bare hands) It’s simply about responsibility and fear.
Pump people full of enough fear, there’s a peado on every corner, the governments coming to get you, white hates black and vice versa and sprinkle on a big helping of machismo and you have a recipe for disaster.
The police have guns, so the criminals get guns, so the police get bigger guns, so the criminals strike first. The people caught in the middle so they go and buy something with no training in how to be responsible and then the kids start shooting each other/themselves. Middle class people stop listening to their kids because they both have to work, self hate and mental instability kicks in because they think they’re different or bullied or whatever, so they take an AR-15 to lunch.
I was a responsible shooter for 15 years, a responsible gun owner for 5, I never shot anyone. I never flouted the law. I’ve probably broken more laws driving and had 100% more near misses that could have ended up in someone being injured. Most of these because people won’t even take the responsibility to use indicators or I haven’t taken responsibility to think they might not be turning after all.
Blame the guns……that’s easy
Blame the gun shops or the laws, that’s really easy
Blame the criminals, blame the police, blame the nutters, the Trumps or whoever.
At the end of the day, everyone else is to blame and that’s how it will always be