Gunman kills 19 children, 2 adults in Texas grade school

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Originally Posted by Kptlt. Neuerburg

Ah the don't blame the tool argument.. Well while there are plenty of other ways to commit mass murder if the gunman didn't have the gun then what would he use? A knife, a hammer, an axe, a concrete in-cased bulldozer? A person is a lot more likely to survive a stab or a slash then they would after a bullet explodes someones brains all over a 5 year old students desk.

In addition to that:
The "tool" doesn't exist in a vacuum. Besides their function as a killing "tool" (unlike a knife they don't have another function) they are a symbol, and they influence people in a negative, damaging way, and especially young people have a hard time resisting these influences.