Every time there’s a mass shooting in America, you can set your watch by the response. Democrats rush to the microphones, and before the victims’ names are even known, they’re pointing at the gun. Always the AR-15, always “weapons of war,” always “we need more laws.”

That’s not just lazy—it’s deliberate. It’s a way to keep the spotlight off the uncomfortable truth: in the vast majority of these tragedies, the shooter isn’t the faceless “angry white conservative male” the media loves to paint. It’s usually someone with a long history of mental instability, and more often than not, their leanings don’t fit the right-wing stereotype. But because that doesn’t play well in the mainstream narrative, it gets pushed aside while the gun takes center stage.

The inconvenient profiles

Take Parkland. The shooter was flagged multiple times—police visits, school warnings, even the FBI got tips. Nothing was done. But when the smoke cleared, Democrats zeroed in on the rifle.

Look at Nashville. A transgender-identifying shooter with a documented history of mental struggles. Media outlets went out of their way to downplay the identity angle, but they had no problem blasting the gun across every chyron.

Or Uvalde. The shooter posted violent threats online. Family members raised red flags. Again, ignored until it was too late. The coverage? Wall-to-wall focus on “assault-style weapons.”

The real shift

Let’s be honest here—guns aren’t new. Firearms have been in American hands for centuries. Semi-automatic rifles have been around for over a hundred years. What’s new is the culture. We live in a society that glorifies rage, celebrates victimhood, and pushes identity politics while quietly sweeping real mental health issues under the rug.

And our institutions? They’ve failed. Schools, law enforcement, social services, all of them miss warning signs again and again. Afterward, everyone wrings their hands, and Democrats go back to the same talking point: ban the gun. It’s political theater, nothing more.

Why blame the tool?

Because blaming the shooter means facing hard questions. Why was this person ignored when they made threats online? Why weren’t prior arrests or red flags taken seriously? Why do we dump billions into government programs that never seem to stop the very people we all knew were ticking time bombs?

Pointing at the gun is easy. It gives politicians a shortcut. It lets them push for policies they already wanted, while dodging accountability for the failures that actually allowed the shooting to happen. It’s about control, not solutions.

The bottom line

A gun can’t think, plan, or hate. A gun doesn’t walk into a school or a mall on its own. A person does. And until we start talking about who those people are—and why they’re snapping—we’ll keep running in circles, blaming the tool while ignoring the root.

No one wants to admit it, but here’s the truth: we don’t have a gun problem, we have a people problem. And the longer we let Democrats and the media deflect from that, the worse this is going to get.

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