You know this plays into the “guns kill people” attitude, versus the “people kill people”, right? It’s as if you’re saying the criminals would not have just picked up a different weapon to commit the murder. Which leads to the next logical step that we should ban future gun sales.
I’d be careful with this one - the issue is not that people died (which is horrible) it’s that they let the guns go so far that they were out of their control.
Just saw your post, I obviously agree with you.
Knowingly supplying murderers with weapons goes a little beyond the basic liberal logic that more guns means more crime. I think even the slowest in society will understand that “murderers kill people” and that specifically arming murderers is a little different than simply having firearms available to the general public.