>From UofWisc law professor Ann Althouse's award winning Blog.
It occurred to me, after the Sandy Hook murders, that blaming guns is a
secular substitute for blaming the devil. People find it too challenging to
figure out why a human being would do this terrible thing and they latch on
to the idea that *the gun* made it happen. Suicide presents a similar
challenge, and one way to fathom it is to say: *It's was the gun*. Isn't it
like saying *the devil made him do it*? The gun/the devil is a great go-to
answer, freeing you from wracking your brain about the workings of the
human mind.
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