The video of the Walker Scott murder produced a black swan to the theory that "guns don't kill people, people kill people." I'm sure it is pretty obvious that while standing stationary Micheal Slager's intent, whatever that was, could not have killed Walter Scott because of the distance between them. Without the use of his gun Micheal Slager couldn't have possibly killed Walter Scott. The gun is what enabled Micheal Slager to kill Walter Scott therefore, the GUN killed Walker Scott not Micheal Slager. IOW, "Guns kill people, people don't kill people". While the folks who believe "people kill people" claim it's the intent of the killer that kills a human being, it's not the intent of the officer that killed Walter Scott, Walter Scott was too far away from Micheal Slager for just intent to kill him, therefore it had to be the gun that killed him and the argument gets even stronger if Micheal Slager's intent was NOT to kill Walter Scott because if Micheal Slager,s intent was not to kill Walter Scott , then the gun definitely killed him.
In fact, the same could be said about the Micheal Brown murder. Without the use of the officers gun, Micheal Brown could not have been killed from the distance that he was killed from. IOW, in that case too, intent wasn't the murderer but the gun murdered Micheal Brown.
. Another analogy could be "NASCAR cars don't go fast , the drivers go fast." While it would probably be pretty boring watching the drivers attempt to run around the track, the driver isn't the reason the car is fast, it's the car itself that makes the driver fast.