ople with a handgun at a movie written by a Jewish woman. He was Elliott Rodgers, who killed six people with two knives and several handguns because he believed that his whiteness granted him the right to have sex with mentally wrong girls who chose to date, in his words, ugly black filth.
For the bigots like Omar Mateen, Dylann Roof, Elliott Rodgers and countless others who have taken their hate and given it a weapon, a gun represents a symbol of their ability to correct people and perpetuate their idea of what America means.