🧩 BND Motif Index · M638
It’s the guns
Each new mass shooting is blamed on the guns themselves: easy access to weapons, not the shooter or his motive, is why it keeps happening.
- 1claim filed under it
- 1claim retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
🪜 rests on 🧩 Mass shooting
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-05 “A mass shooting occurred at a block party in Georgia on October 4, resulting in two deaths and 35 injuries.” 🧶 people online
M638 · first seen 2026-10-08 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works