YouTube and Reddit are sued for allegedly enabling the racist mass shooting in Buffalo that left 10 dead

Because they think dead schoolkids are a necessary sacrifice for their gun collecting hobby?

Because most are.

Now I know the new trendy thing is for gun lobbyists and right-wing operatives online to stoke the division by pitching guns to the left. I know the intent is to profit from a wider market while simultaneously muddying the waters of who is the most violent ideological group.

... And some ground is being made with this vector, but it's still nowhere close to comparable.

This is a key insight. There have been plenty of despots and dictators that ruled countries for decades while committing uncountable atrocities who had full command of their faculties.

Why is that an either or?

As disturbing as that comment is, the inverse sheds light on one of the biggest issues with attempts to regulate guns to reduce gun violence:

Legal attempts to restrict violence through restrictions of legal freedoms will not and have not democratized safety from violence, mostly because the vast majority of violent crime is perpetrated by people who are already in the habit and practice of disregarding laws.

Ok, bombs then

The point they are making is that guns, besides being a force amplifier, are also easily accessible. The more steps involved, the less likely you are engaged in said acts. It's why Americans will drive 1 mile to get a six pack, even though walking to the shop yields the same result. The easiest path is the most likely.

More regulation without infringement is what we want. I don't care if you have a gun. I care that they're super easy to get, I also care that you can easily get a big gun that can kill a lot of people just as easily as a handgun.

Where are all these mass bombings and vehicular murders in other Countries then? You average multiple mass shootings per week in the US, while the events in other countries typically happen less than once a year.

I imagine it feels that way when tons of people disagree with you. But that's also part of posting in public discourse, if people don't like what you're saying they will surely let you know.

I mean.. if you play video games for hours and hours, your brain will likely learn to play videogames better? Sure. I hardly see a correlation to mass murder here.

If you believe that action repetition is to blame for rewiring people's brains to be more efficient at mass murder, why not blame the military, or hell, why not just start picketing outside your local airsoft or paintball places?

edit: he'll into hell. I blame autocorrect.

Badabing. It’s okay. You heard a word somewhere and misunderstood how to use it. It happens.

Because clicking a mouse to go pew pew at fictional characters is drastically different than pointing and shooting a gun at a human being.

Even the most realistic military shooters, you don't just get a red tint over your eyes if you get shot, you can't wait it out or use a medkit to immediately be fully recovered, and people don't respawn the next match after they are killed. They don't show how gruesome and nerve-wracking real violence it is. They can't show the lasting consequences of that. People who play video games might not even know how heavy a real gun is.

And then there are things like Fortnite and Overwatch, which are just silly cartoons. No comparison.

Are there any actual scientific studies that back up that summation? Because video games have been under intense scrutiny for decades and every time it's brought up the consensus seems to be that there's no direct link

Video games are not the causal reason for mass shootings. Do other countries have gun violence like America does? No. But they play video games just at much as we do.

It's not video games that are the problem, it's the easy access to lightly regulated guns.