Availability and lethality of guns and body counts

[Snowboarder_Bo]

I’ll re-post this from that thread so as to stop the hijack over there:

@Magiver

The elephant in the room is violence in society. The gun is irrelevant. If we could magically make them all go away the actual problem would still exist.

If the shooter didn’t have a gun he would killed the students some other way.

The available evidence suggests that this notion is incorrect; availability of the tool has a lot to do with how often the tool is used. Cite and cite.