AlabamAlum wrote:Johnette's Daddy wrote:AlabamAlum wrote:A psychotic young man goes on a rampage and kills 6 because girls won't pay him attention is horrible. Of the 6 he killed, half were stabbed to death with a knife. When he started stabbing those kids to death, pity there wasn't a law-abiding citizen with a gun there to shoot him.
The shooter had been seen by several therapists and a social worker - who had called police to relay concerns some time ago.
Oh yeah, totally blame the NRA for this. Totally....
What you left out:
A psychotic young man legally obtains a gun.
Funny how that keeps happening.
The NRA's opposition to any measure that places a modicum of oversight on gun trafficking is shameful. In many states, it's harder to buy Sudafed for your sinuses than it is to buy a gun. Then you gun nuts blame every other segment of society when someone who has no business with a gun gets one legally and shoots up a school . . . or a post office . . . or a mall . . . or a house of worship . . . or an Army base . . . or a TV station . . . or a UPS store . . . or a Laundromat . . . or a child care center . . .
I haven't heard that he bought this gun legally, but I find it no funnier than a psychotic man legally obtaining a car, a bucket of acid, or a butcher knife (like the one the young man killed half his victims with). This happened in California, which has a good array of gun laws. But sure. Blame the NRA.
The anti-gun idiots are quick to blame everyone, too. Except, of course, the person who....you know...actually pulled the trigger. Now THAT'S shameful.
Two fairly eloquent POVs on the subject of gun control imo...and you are both right.
And the fact that you can both be right just points out the inevitability of it all. A quarter of the U.S. population meets the criteria for possessing at least one 'mental disorder.' Over half of the population owns guns (300 million guns are a best estimate). It's safe to infer that 30 million unstable Americans can cradle a firearm at any given moment.
Thing is, you can't round up all the potentially threatening people. And you sure as hell can't round up all the guns. It's an exercise in futility to even consider undertaking either on some kind of massive scale.
I believe we're headed towards some Orwellian future whereby handguns will be a natural piece of equipment for most...a pistol in one pocket and a cellphone in the other. Closer to that NRA adage about 'a well-armed society is a polite society.' The hope being that an influx of good guns will drive out or mitigate the damage wrought by the bad ones.
"OMG, this is terrible. This is the end of my presidency. I AM FUCKED!"