School Kids Dying in Ohio: It's a Gun Problem

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38. I'll grant you that most would say the correlation is significant.

But correlation is still not causation, no matter what many people would say. Now consensus is truth? Yikes! Correlation can get stronger and stronger and still not be cause. The sun coming up doesn't cause me to eat my breakfast. The correlation is strong, but it's the hunger that causes the eating, not the sun. It would be hard to disagree that all school shootings happen at a school. Correlation is 100%, but it would be simpleminded to say that "school" caused the shooting. This isn't even an argument; it's nonsense. People want to blame violence on something, guns are handy, no pun, so they blame guns. It is far more challenging to think critically, to analyze the problem and track it to its source, and ballsier by far to suggest that we do something about that. This is why some lefty gun owners get frustrated with lefty anti-gunners: blaming guns is not seeking a solution, in fact, it obscures and distracts from and obviates the need to deal with the mental health issues that cause this type of inappropriate firearm use.