• aidan@lemmy.world
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    1 年前

    Can someone who’s more into gun stuff tell me why people are always talking about the number of guns someone has?

    Can be one of several things, or usually a combination:

    • to show how prepared they were
    • to imply the person was crazy because they had that many guns
    • to imply people having that many guns somehow itself makes them more dangerous

    A lot of it is just rhetoric

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      1 年前

      But it also does raise the question: why did the shooter think he needed a lot of guns?

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        1 年前

        That is true, maybe he thought he was going to have a multiday standoff, but I don’t know why he’d need so many guns for that.