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Comment on Why don't we hear more about the 2017 Las Vegas shooting? It was the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history, we never found a motive, and it seems no one ever mentions it.

aidan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
But it also does raise the question: why did the shooter think he needed a lot of guns?

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- aidan@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.
  
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