[tomrod]

Mentally fit people also commit hate crimes and participate in white supremacy. Jumping to this betrays unwillingness to deal with three issues:

[1] Mental illness != immediate danger to people's lives

[2] Easy access to guns and ammo lowers the cost to perform mass shootings. Incendiary devices require special knowledge, knives make people's arms tired before "mass stabbing" threshold is reached, automobiles are typically blocked from driving into a store without damaging the vehicle before mass killing is achieved

[3] White supremacy is thriving in certain corners of the internet. Discontent in the marketplace of ideas because only losers adopt it, it lives in protected corners.

I consider your jumping to mental illness as a cause instead of a correlated factor as misguided given the three bullets above.

[towaway15463]

Point #2 is bullshit, there have been many mass stabbing events. Knife crime in general is also a problem. Same thing with vehicular killings. There are a number of high profile cases that have been in the news.

[tomrod]

Point #2 you _consider_ bullshit, but are mistaken. It is a lot easier to pull a trigger than to stab. Murder still occurs, but at a much lower count per incident. The causal model holds: if you want lower mass shootings, restrict access to guns and ammo.

These are high profile because they are rare to accomplish relative to mass shootings.

[JshWright]

The Buffalo shooter himself explicitly called out in his manifesto how much easier this act was to carry out due to his access to semiautomatic firearms.