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No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Las_Vegas_shooting

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

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