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^I don't believe you. Which school shooting? Even so, hardly any school shootings are done with handguns. You're not looking at this the right way because you don't want to, or because you think you can convince me with crap like that. No, I'm not an idiot.

You're looking at things in a materialistic manner, while I am looking at them abstractly. Of course, a gun has a bunch of parts and you can know the ins and outs of the chain of events that transpire to project a bullet, but my point is that these things aren't necessary to know to understand what a gun does, much less to understand the issue, because of course the issue is about how guns are integrated into our world. So if the issue is then about guns and the events going on in our world and everything else involved, then the issue is more about everything else than it even is about the guns in a certain sense.

Going back to the climate change issue. You could understand a few facts about climate change like CO2 is emitted into the air, and know what things are doing this, and understand that the ocean is rising and getting warmer, etc. But you could go into these things more in-depth. You could learn more facts about climate change, more signs, more about basic chemistry even. The issue can be broken down in so many ways, yet those things aren't necessary to know to come to a conclusion. They're just details...reminds me of these quiz brains on gameshows. They know all these non-related facts about the English translation of a pepper with a Spanish name or how many cities are on a river...like wtf...why are you learning all that shit? Lol, well I guess they're getting paid, but in the long run most of the stuff they're learning contributes zilch to their overall understanding of how the world functions, and the wisdom to know how to participate in it.

I could go on with more analogies. If I want to make the decision to eat the burger, I need only know that it was cooked at a certain temperature, and perhaps eyeball what it looks like. I might want to know that it was sold at an institution regularly inspected for health standards. I don't need to know the model of the grill it was cooked on, or how long it was actually cooked and at what temperature (because of course you can cook something for a shorter amount of time, but hotter to get the same result). I am not thinking of things so discretely. You're thinking about the gun and its parts merely. I am thinking of a gun, its main functions, and how they interact with the world, especially with the person behind the trigger. To understand this macroscopic point of view, yes, the factoids I mentioned earlier are pretty much the gist of what one needs to know. The other facts are supplemental at best.