arguments about direct causation are dicey, but at some point there has to be a level of incidents--on the order of shoot-em-ups in schools accomplished and foiled--such that even folk who are interested in refuting causal claims (access to guns=increased likelhood of gun violence doesnt seem terribly risky, the predictable counters from the anti-gun control folk notwithstanding) have to acknowledge that (a) there is a relation and that (b) that relation is a problem.
but as there's no agreement on what that level of information be, we get to watch shit like this happen and try out all kinds of hypotheses other than the availability of guns might make gun related violence more likely.
there's always the canard of "media biais" that can be tossed into play...this only gets coverage because there is some secret biais against grenades in the hands of teenagers and assault weapons and so on.
or maybe the kid was learning to hunt deer with a grenade.
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