I've collected a little list of some of the things that gun-coddlers blame to protect their precious guns from negative attention.
mental illness
lenient parenting
lack of prayer in schools; sin and evil in general
too many doors in schools
schools are "soft targets"; gun-free zones; not enough guns in schools
failure of the FBI
not enough good guys with guns
toxic masculinity
media coverage of mass shootings
school kids are mean to the ones who are troubled
social media
strict gun control laws
violent video games
Democrats
Ritalin
pornography
I've got an acquaintance who comes back with the usual "Guns are not the problem!" response, which she supplements with the idea that the problems of this country are deep and complex, and that, by gosh, we need to get right down to solving all those problems!
Well, isn't that helpful? No. If you've got a country full of deep, complex problems, and you know that you can quickly cut down the number of deaths by better control of guns, that's the problem you solve first.
Nowadays, there's a not-so-new wrinkle in mass shootings: most are being carried out by young white men who are emboldened by the current occupant of the White House to express, through violence, their racial hatred. This is a fact surrounded by deep denial, as is the fact that guns are the problem.
