Its not even about this particular case, which is indeed about racism, an unreasoning pointless hatred of white people.

Its about the easy availability of guns, which makes killing large numbers of people from a safe distance so easy, for whatever the reason. Who does the killing, and why, is something else altogether.

The number of people who die and are maimed from firearms, from both crime, accident and suicide, is comparable to those who are killed and injured in automobile accidents. We accept the casualties from road deaths because we feel it is a reasonable price to pay for the benefit we get from automobiles. In spite of that, we spend a great amount of effort to keep the death toll as low as possible.

The benefits we receive from the wholesale distribution of firearms are not so clear. And the efforts we make to reduce the casualties are obviously inadequate.