• aidan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    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 year ago

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

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        1 year ago

        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.