Why are kids shooting other kids at school?

[iverglas]

99. you are absolutely right!

Nobody has blamed guns for the problem and I am only making things up.

And thank you for the various quotations demonstrating the accuracy of that statement!

It is VERY obvious that I take issue with those who, instead of blaming the person responsible, they blame guns, access to guns and the 2nd Amendment.

You see, the thing here is that while you may be the kind of person who likes to point fingers and "blame", that's not really a universal trait. Some people like to identify sources of problems and look for solutions.

Nobody in your litany blamed guns. They identified "access to guns", "gun worship", "where students got their guns", etc., as sources of a problem. Nobody really pointed a finger at a gun and said "this is all your fault". That's what some people with delusional mental illnesses sometimes do: ascribe intent to inanimate objects.

Nobody here seems to be suffering from delusions. And the only one operating on the premise that inanimate objects are capable of forming intent, and thus of being potentially blameworthy, is you.

Instead of blaming the person responsible, which does fuck all to remedy the harm caused (which is irremediable, in this case) or to reduce the risk of it happening again, they look for ways to reduce that risk.

You, it appears, sit around pointing your finger and are not at all interested in reducing the risks of children gaining access to firearms and killing other children, among the many harms associated with access to firearms.

Your choice. Not wise to pretend someone else is playing the silly blame game, though, when they aren't, really.

My initial post, which I had to hit the "Post my REPLY" button to post, made light of those who live in constant fear and blame guns.

No, it didn't, it made an incivil attempt to mock DUers in this thread, and it failed because its targets were onlyin your head.