An NRA board member "goes there" re: SC massacre

[Man from Pickens]

12. Everyone focusing on the guns is wrong

The problem is the will to kill. Once that will is combined with action, the number of methods by which a single person can kill many others is very high. All you need to do is spend five minutes considering how that might be done to see that the presence of the gun is the least significant element of the story. In terms of actual killing potential, the average household contains chemicals that with just a little bit of knowledge of chemistry could easily produce very high body counts, and with methods available that the perpetrator could, without too much difficulty, leave no leads behind for investigators.

Focusing on guns is a cop-out. The real problem with our culture is its strong trend towards Clockwork Orange "ultraviolence" - that is what needs to be dealt with to prevent future mass killings. Killing and violence permeates our culture - the endless wars we choose to engage in, the glorification/saturation of violence in movies and TV, the behavior or law enforcement.