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One person killing 10 people in one incident? And 10 people killing ten other people in separate incidents? The difference between them is that the mass killing is catalyzed in many cases by the same variable, a firearm, which can be regulated and thwarted (not in every case, nothing is perfect). Those 10 murder victims while it is tragic that lives were lost there is no variable that exists in every case that could help in thwarting future incidents. Now of course we could argue that the firearm is not the variable, but if we look at the frequency of events in other states with strict gun regulation we see that these massacre's are actually combatted pretty well by the legislation.