Are they wrong, though? I got slammed with a bunch of downvotes all at once, and later a bunch of upvotes, and other comments on the page seem to track similarly. You don't think that's maybe caused by a surge of bias?
Even assuming that's true, (a) that doesn't make a comment valuable, and (b) the GP way overinterpreted it ("Lots of people owning guns") in the flamewar style.
Unfortunately, it seems that when you touch people's belief, facts become fake news.
No weapons mean no idiots able to kill dozens of people for no reason at all.
It's insane to even have to explain that weapons just have the potential to kill and don't serve any other purpose.