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  Mass killing is significantly harder without a gun.
  
  Not really. Nice is just one example. Bombing and vehicles are easy to employ.
context: As a millennial who was in high school when columbine happened, I thought I was part of the mass shooting generation. I never imagined it would get as bad as it has. Fuck every politician who sits on their hands while our kids die. >
  
  I live in Colorado, which at this point is like the poster child for mass shootings.  There have been three mass shootings that made national news since I moved here.  I lived in Aurora for a while - you can guess what people's first reaction was when I told them that.
  It's fucking insane.  I've been lucky, my closest connection to a mass shooting was when a couple coworkers visited the Boulder King Sooper less than 24 hours before the shooting there, and a bunch of people texted me concerned because it's close to my office.  I was also within a couple blocks of the Planned Parenthood shooting when it happened.  Thankfully, nobody I know was hurt. But damn, it's horrible.
  While gun violence has many factors to be addressed, I think the phenomenon of mass shootings in particular has one major factor that sets it apart:
  Right wing radicalization.
  This isn't suicide due to unavailability of mental health care.  This isn't drug related violence.  This is a bunch of people radicalized online by far right propaganda and incel forums.  Until we figure out a way to eliminate those things, no amount of gun laws will make a difference. >
  
  I'm sorry hear about your closeness to this issue. But I value your perspective, and I very much agree.
  Myself, I don't have a problem with guns. Being around one or around someone with one doesn't make me one iota uncomfortable. They say "guns don't kill people, people kill people" - I think that's right. And those people right now are the radicalized right wingers. We really have to put a stop to this right wing radicalization. I have no idea how.... >
  
  
  They say "guns don't kill people, people kill people" - I think that's right. 
  
  And yet people without guns don't mass shoot people. Weird how they works. >
  
  Yeah, they just mass kill by other means, like in Nice. But I guess those deaths don't matter. >
  
  Mass killing is significantly harder without a gun. In fact, it's so hard to do that when it does happen, people remember it for years to come, like the stabbings in Nice. This is an example of "the exception that proves the rule."
  There's no reason to be obtuse here. In the modern day, mass killing is realistically only done with guns. This is a fact regardless of how you feel about guns and gun control.