Trump: Texas mass shooting is about mental health, not guns

[quaker bill]

10. No actually it is about the guns

Guns, in particular the emblematic assault type weapon, give small people with massive mental health issues the confidence and ability they need and want to cause this sort of damage. The gun humpers are correct, it is not the gun, it is the person carrying it. However, we must begin to consider how carrying this sort of weaponry changes and emboldens the carrier.

They look lethal, they are advertised as lethal, they ooze a gun geek testosterone-y manliness, and this is not by accident, it is marketing. Now there is nothing in essence wrong with marketing per-se, but unfortunately some of us are damaged and desperate enough to believe and internalize the pitch. These folks feel disempowered, probably for real cause, but they want their power back, so they go and buy some, and them some use it.

It is not the gun, it is the change that having massive lethal fire power makes in the carrier that is the problem.