>If the heart and mind of the culture is sick then the tool
>doesn't matter. Unhealthy people will always find a tool to
>cause mass pain and death


Even if we say there will always be people that will want to do mass amounts of damage, it still makes sense to minimize their potential impactt by limiting the availability of powerful weapons.

I've seen people on my news feed post repeatedly about an incident in China 5 years ago where 4 fanatics killed 30 people and injured another 150 people when they went on a stabbing free. The logic goes "SEE?!?! Even if you ban guns there could still be events like this!"

1 man in Orlando killed 49 people and injured another 50. If he had only had knives, or even just a regular handgun, there certainly would've been fewer. On the other hand, if there were 2 other shooters as armed as he was, there might have been 200 dead.

The tools matter and part of the reason folks want to restrict everyone's access to certain tools (like we already do for fully automatic firearms) is because we can't effectively screen for obviously sick minds, let alone usually sane folks who go off the deep end during periods of high stress and pressure and lash out at anyone nearby.