It’s the guns, people

According to the Gun Violence Archive, there were 655 mass shootings in the US in 2023.

That’s more mass shootings than there are days in the years.

I think we have a gun problem.

Now, some people will say “It’s not the guns; it’s people. And more specifically it’s people with some form of mental illness.

But consider this: If you believe A causes B, it means you’re asserting that if A happens, then B will happen. But if A happens and B does not, then A is not the cause of B.

Consider further that there are many countries in the world. And in those countries, there are likely many people with some form of mental illness. But those countries do not experience anything close to the same number of mass shootings as we have in the U.S.

So, I come back to my assertion: we have a gun problem in this country.