I never equated the effectiveness of those other things to a gun. I never alluded to the idea that I felt those were equivalent. I simply said that there are other ways for psychos to hurt the people around them.

And considering a gun as a sporting good, doesn’t a gun have just as much use as a baseball bat or a golf club? Both of which could be easily used to bludgeon someone to death. Or a sword that has no practical in-home purpose. Again, I’m not saying these objects are of equivalent effectiveness at killing people. Just pointing out that various “deadly weapons” are found everywhere in the average American home. These things sometimes have practical use, and sometimes only exist for entertainment. But the thing they have in common is that they can all be dangerous in the wrong hands.

Guns are just the most effective way to commit mass murder without anything going wrong. This of course makes them the most dangerous and that is only exemplified by the lack of a practical use.