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Because this time it is about the guns. This nutjob kid was obsessed with them, so it wasn't just his mental problems or his desire for people to die.
He had a visceral desire to have an automatic rifle in his hands, point it at people and shoot them. A pressure cooker bomb would not have satisfied his desire to be there and physically watch the damage he was inflicting. Knives are too up close and personal for most mass killers and they can't stab that many people before being jumped on.
BS.
Knives are silent.
Apparently you and others have this idea of someone stabbing people as yelling and screaming as they stab people multiple times....
In a school with that many kids, in a crowded, noisy hallway with a sea of distracted kids milling about, you could quietly and calmly stab a dozen people before anyone knew what was happening.....
The poster I replied to said it wasn't possible to kill that many people with a knife.
I disagreed.
Are you saying that if we banned all guns people wouln't commit mass killings with knives, pressure cookers, trucks, bombs etc?
No. Read my posts. There will always be bad people. It's only a matter of how soon we confront the person before they carry out their deed.
Ordering aluminum nitrate online or talking about killing someone may be a clue the perp's sibling or girlfriend would see. They have a choice-----engage and deter, or become complicit. We need to get serious about punishment.
I own a few guns and noone thinks I'm a threat. There's a reason for this.
Apparently you and others have this idea of someone stabbing people as yelling and screaming as they stab people multiple times....
In a school with that many kids, in a crowded, noisy hallway with a a sea of distracted kids milling about, you could quietly and calmly stab a dozen people before anyone knew what was happening.....
Then why don't these killers use knives and pressure cookers?
The existence of the hospitals or the states of the hospitals themselves?
The courts ruled that the mentally ill could take their meds anywhere and could not be forced to do it in a controlled environment. Of course once free, they quit taking their meds. One example, a former mental patient ran around town nude looking in windows. He could not be charged because he was mentally ill, but he could also not be forced to take the meds that kept him from doing it before he was released. The police could only take him back to the group home each time.
The existence of the hospitals or the states of the hospitals themselves?
Patient rights was one of the issues - that many would fare better in the community than in an institution.
The money saved from closing the hospitals was *supposed* to be directed towards providing clinics, and support in the community. THAT did not happen - or when it did the program budgets were later cut.
So instead we have hoards of homeless (some of whom are mentally ill) on the streets and shooters in our classrooms.
How do you know,were you there? As I said, all that was reported was what I said. So, questions to be answered not just with answers pulled from thin air unless you've got a source?
Doesn't matter if it was in a bag or not, the gun was legal in Florida, that's the law and it's there to protect your 2A rights. You can't have it both ways, you advocate for unlimited 2A rights and Florida pretty much gives them to their residents, that's what you all wanted and that's what you got.
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