Others argue that guns don’t kill without someone there to pull the trigger

Others argue that guns don’t kill without someone there to pull the trigger.

There are roughly 21,000 gun-related homicides annually as of 2021, showing petty gun crime, even among registered firearm owners, kills.

The solution isn’t more punitiveness. That created this problem in the first place.

Rhetoric about gangs and gang violence is often an excuse to warehouse Black people in prisons rather than to protect people in communities with significant gun violence.

After all, there are plenty of legitimate reasons someone may want to acquire a gun.

Others still will call mass shootings the work of sick individuals and call for more mental health treatment.

This isn’t a crisis caused by the pathology of just a few people: sick individuals don’t exist in a vacuum outside of the conditions that created them.