There's an incredibly clear correlation between firearm deaths and gun ownership: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828709/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih

There's an incredibly clear correlation between firearm deaths and gun ownership: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828709/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3828709/ And if you don't think high muzzle speed and high capacity magazines increase effectiveness (read: ability to kill more school children faster) then you'd better let our military know. It really takes willful ignorance to pretend that having higher numbers of more effective killing tools has nothing to do with deaths. maybe this indicates that it's not the firearms themselves that are the problem And again. The incredibly simplistic way of thinking. The problem? There are many problems! Properly addressing this would take many solutions. Mental health problems are fundamental to our species and may never be completely be eradicated, but we can do better. One problem that is not fundamental to our species is the easy access to weapons of war. But we do like our toys, don't we.