[Shooter 2.5]

I don't watch spectator sports.

I do compete in the shooting sports such as IDPA and High Power Rifle. Every participant is expected to have, you guessed it, a gun.

No one has ever murdered or shot another participant on purpose in the entire history of the shooting sports.

[bourbon]

Exactly. In the past, kids in many parts of America used to take their .22s to school where they would learn marksmanship. Rarely, if ever, did they go off the deep end and turn their guns on their fellow students.

The argument that the large number of guns in the country correlates to an elevated murder rate is positively ridiculous. America has always been saturated with guns.

What has changed? Why do people use them more often for nefarious purposes today? Wise folks look to the culture and other factors for the answer. Not to the guns themselves.