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Actually, this, like so many shootings, happened in a "gun free zone." No one else had a gun until the police arrived. That's quite a bit different than your characterization that everyone had a gun.
Why is it that you don't typically see mass shootings at gun show, gun stores, and shooting competitions?
Oh boy, now you done done it! Heads will explode....
I agree with this as well. I've always believed we need anger management in our schools. It would not only prevent mass murders, but domestic violence, child abuse, etc.
DV isn't always about anger. Many abusers use it to dominate another person and are quite calm and methodical about it.
This preoccupation with the chance of a terrible tyrannical government is largely a nonsense. In order to fend of such a government - each citizen would need a tank and anti-aircraft weaponry. The people in Iraq had a high percentage of guns - didn't make much difference there. Why is it that other free rich democratic countries don't sweat it about this pending tyrannical government? - they also don't have the ridiculous prospect of these sad ongoing incidents. Re the 'true cause' - it's the presence of guns - combined with a culture that tends to be immature - one could argue that that love of guns at any cost is part of that same immaturity.
it is not the presence of guns that causes these attrocities - it is the mental state of the assailants.
we need to do a better job of instilling positive values and societal mores in our youth.
we need to do a better job of teaching our youth how to handle life when it is not going how you want
we need to do a better job of recognizing folks vunerable to lashing out in this sort of way
Look at Australia. It can be done. Look at NYC, it can be done. Stop saying more guns are the cure, they obviously aren't. Murder will happen, but mass murders are on us.
I am so very tired of those clinging to the 2nd amendment as justification. I absolutely believe that the Founding Fathers would have stopped this insanity had they realized that their words would still be considered absolute 250 years later, when NONE of the parameters apply.
LOL..Evertime someone proclaims their 2nd Amendment rights..I want to ask just "Which Militia Group" they belong to..as that is the ORIGINAL 2nd Amendment as written by the founding fathers....Somehow has been morphed into individual rights???? Oh well..
The whole world knows that this "American Gun Culture" is the best place to go to purchase a gun..no problem..access your self to those "straw-purchasers"..and any GROUP could buy/equip and amass enough artillery to take out whomever they want to...
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My prayers are with the families of those injured or killed - but we've seen similar tragedies in subways, movie theaters and shopping malls. No one is 100% safe no matter where you are. This is a no firearm campus and yet there is no security to stop someone from bringing a gun on campus. Take away his gun and he'll bring a bomb in a backpack. A crazy person knows no bounds and will find a way legal or illegal to reach his goal.
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Look at Australia. It can be done. Look at NYC, it can be done. Stop saying more guns are the cure, they obviously aren't. Murder will happen, but mass murders are on us.
I am so very tired of those clinging to the 2nd amendment as justification. I absolutely believe that the Founding Fathers would have stopped this insanity had they realized that their words would still be considered absolute 250 years later, when NONE of the parameters apply.
Please show me where NY City demonstrates what you're saying - per the article - murders are up 9%
LOL..Evertime someone proclaims their 2nd Amendment rights..I want to ask just "Which Militia Group" they belong to..as that is the ORIGINAL 2nd Amendment as written by the founding fathers....Somehow has been morphed into individual rights???? Oh well..
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"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
sentence structure and punctuation make all the difference in the world.
So very sad. I'm sending prayers to the families. WTF
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