I don't think the problem is so much the guns as the culture of violence.

[quaker bill]

120. My point was

That you cannot, as a philosophical proposition, abstract guns away from the culture in which they exist. Because they exist, and are owned by members of the culture, they interact and are used by the culture (per the op, "culture of violence&quot .

What we do or don't do about the availability of guns without reasonable doubt will result in more or fewer uses for "yellow tape".

If what the OP is implying is that guns don't cause violence, but our culture does, you get to the same result. Objects that facilitate quick and effective mass violence, perhaps should be less available in a "culture of violence", given like me, you desire fewer uses for the "yellow tape".

It is true that removing guns from the equation will not end all violence. Nothing humans have ever done has ended all violence, so far at least. But I am pretty sure this guy would not have racked up the same toll in lives taken if all he has was a baseball bat.