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Originally Posted by Max Cow Disease
The gun situation in the US is obviously silly at this point, but if you could vanquish every bad, hateful idea in the world you'd save far more lives than if you vanquished every firearm. Obviously that's not possible, but it serves the point that the guns in this are really just a further enabler of the act. The act itself is born of incredibly antiquated and toxic ideas about the world.
Dangerous beliefs can sprout from a lot of places- psychopathy, depression, societal unrest, etc., but 2000 year old dogma is also an excellent candidate and starting point.
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The bolded is very important, ironically it's gun defenders that usually state it in an attempt to minimize the gun aspect of mass shootings.
