How to counter "Guns aren't evil" memes
How to respond to this bullshit meme making the rounds on social media:
Evil is facilitated by guns that can fire 70 rounds per minute into the bodies of 9 and 10-year-old children.
Evil is facilitated by companies that mass produce weapons designed for combat and market them to civilians.
Evil is facilitated by an organization that exists primarily to buy politicians who then block any legislation that would attempt to address the epidemic of gun violence in America including universal background checks and red flag laws that would make it harder for people with mental illness to buy guns.
Evil is facilitated when a mentally ill homicidal coward can easily buy two assault rifles, 70 magazines, and a thousand rounds of ammunition days after his 18th birthday and days before going on a killing rampage at an elementary school.
Evil is facilitated by politicians who justify, rationalize, and blame everything (including teachers) except the common denominator linked to every mass shooting for the last decade, their beloved assault rifle.
Evil is facilitated when we do nothing as innocent bodies of children, women, and the elderly, ripped apart by bullets, fill our funeral homes and graveyards.
Evil is facilitated when people decide the right to own weapons of war outweighs the rights of fourth-graders to watch Lilo and Stitch without being executed at point-blank range.
Evil is facilitated when cops stand in a hallway, doing nothing, for 76 minutes while children bleed out from gunshot wounds suffered at the hands of a weak coward armed with a weapon that performed with the exact lethality and mutilation for which it was designed.
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Sometimes you just want to give up 
It would be better if evil people didn't have guns. We don't know who they are so how would we know if someone is law abiding? How about if a law abiding person decides to stop abiding by the law and their first violent crime is a mass shooting? NO background check is going to pick up a first time mass shooter because they don't have a history of mass shootings.
People can't wear a damn mask because of hippo laws so how are we going to get mental health into background checks with HIPAA?
They always want to make some philosophical point that doesn't even need to be made. We all know guns don't shoot themselves. We all know guns are tools. We all know that in the wrong hands guns are more dangerous. In a way they are making the point of those in favor of common sense gun laws.
It's not hard to recognize there is "evil" in the world. Therefore, the point is don't let the "evil" get the gun.
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