[valec]

it's material conditions that lead to violence, not the tools.

sure tools make it easier, but gun control didn't stop the pm of japan from getting assassinated.

if people weren't so desperate, polarized, and angry, i would bet my entire life's savings gun deaths would be decimated

[harmegido]

https://www.forkingpaths.co/p/its-the-guns

[bdangubic]

yea, it is definitely the guns :)

[hk__2]

> sure tools make it easier, but

There is no but. There are 700x more gun homicides in the US vs the UK, with just 5x the population. You are the only developed country in the world where active shooter response training is a thing. Tools do make it easier, so it should be hard to get them, especially when they are specifically made for no other use than killing people.

[happytoexplain]

Why not both?

[objektif]

This is not a good argument. How many people in Japan die from gun shots in a typical year. Tools are absolutely the problem. With that many craY guns out in the US you are simply significantly increasing chances of shit happening.

[TimorousBestie]

Shinzo Abe was shot with an improvised firearm, not a gun.

Like, he built it out of PVC and duct tape and random parts. He didn’t buy a legal weapon, and he didn’t obtain a consumer firearm illegally.

[cosmicgadget]

If only there were some evidence that things happen more frequently when they are easier to do.