It reminds me of the Catholic church's attitude to condoms. To anyone without a religious dogma, it's obvious that condoms are the solution to HIV. But the Catholic church is so dogmatically opposed to them that they will literally blame anything else for HIV, be it the influence of modern movies and music, or a breakdown of traditional family values. Anything to deflect from the obvious solution. And every time one of these mass shootings happen, the gun nuts desperately scramble around for anything else to blame it on: mental health, violent video games, etc. Anything to deflect attention from the one thing that every reasonable person knows is the cause. I mean they literally treat the US constitution like a religious text. Being seen to criticise an aspect of the constitution in some circles is very similar to being accused of blasphemy. Also like their chosen religious text, they are often very selective about which bits they choose the emphasise and often see very few problems in trampling other bits that they don't give too much of a shit about.