brt01010101@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 months agoWhy don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it.message-squaremessage-square233fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up11arrow-down1message-squareWhy don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it.brt01010101@sh.itjust.works to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 4 months agomessage-square233fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareaidan@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·4 months ago Can someone who’s more into gun stuff tell me why people are always talking about the number of guns someone has? Can be one of several things, or usually a combination: to show how prepared they were to imply the person was crazy because they had that many guns to imply people having that many guns somehow itself makes them more dangerous A lot of it is just rhetoric
minus-squareCeruleanRuin@lemmings.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·4 months agoBut it also does raise the question: why did the shooter think he needed a lot of guns?
Can be one of several things, or usually a combination:
A lot of it is just rhetoric
But it also does raise the question: why did the shooter think he needed a lot of guns?