re: #95 Charles Johnson

Without a gun, maybe he hit her, and maybe she went to a hospital and the police got called in and the relationship broke up, but they were all still alive.

Without a gun this might not have been a murder. With the gun, murder was almost inevitable.

It’s absurd to pretend that having a tool dedicated to killing human beings right there, ready to use, has no bearing on crimes like this one.

I agree that having a gun “right there ready to use” has an absolute bearing on the crime.

To say that owning a gun made this inevitable is hyperbole.