Not to state the blindingly obvious, but it should be clear for all to see that the number one driving force behind the rampant gun problem to plague the United States are in fact the guns.
However, that hasn’t stopped Capitol Hill’s premiere Karen from once more bowing down to the misguided ramblings of Donald Trump after Marjorie Taylor Greene lent support to his prior claims that the issues are derived from virtually anything besides firearms.
Even though you can’t have gun violence without it, pointing fingers elsewhere continues to be a favored tactic of those who refuse to believe that making potentially deadly weapons available so easily and with variable levels of regulation could possibly be the cause.
An ironclad fact that a lot of people always tend to bring up whenever another tragic incident unfolds is the aftermath of the Dunblane Primary School shooting in Scotland, which happened in 1996. 16 pupils and a teacher were shot and killed, with another 15 being injured. As a result, the United Kingdom cracked down and significantly tightened its gun control laws, and in the 27 years since, there have been precisely zero active shooter incidents in schools across the entire length and breadth of the country.
It’s a debate that’s never going to recede into the background of American politics, though, but there’s only so many times you can blame the problem on mental health, social circumstances, the culture, or even spiritualism as MTG and Trump are wont to do without staring the elephant in the room directly in the face and admitting that maybe, just maybe, it’s the guns.