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Originally Posted by Robbie
Rochard... if our society ever allows the govt. to forcibly incarcerate everyone who "acts crazy"...you, me, and 90% of the people would be detained. lol
People like Jeffrey Dahmer didn't "slip through the cracks". He never did anything to "slip through". He was a smart guy and normal in every way...except he secretly wanted to kill and eat young gay guys.
WTF are we supposed to do...read people's minds? We can't. And we can't let the govt. start hauling people off because they MIGHT do something crazy.
That sounds like the Nazi's or The Soviet Union Secret Police.
As far as numbers of people killed and time it took to kill them...what the fuck difference does that make in the discussion? Dead is dead.
And if you INSIST on that kind of wrong-headed reasoning...then realize this: Timothy McVeigh killed 19 children under the age of SIX YEAR OLD in Oklahoma City in about a split second. He did NOT use a gun.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing |
They slip through the cracks every day. The guy who shot the firemen killed his grand mother with a hammer. The kid in CT was a loner who locked himself up in the basemen of a million dollar house and surrounded himself by posters of military hardware while playing violent video games.
And again, this isn't about guns. Don't say "He did NOT use a gun". You are talking about guns, and I'm talking about mental health here.
Timothy McVeigh didn't kill with a gun, but no one thought he was odd? He brought firearms to school to impress his friends.
But the solution here isn't more guns. More guns isn't going to protect us. All it does is give mentally ill people easier access to guns, be it legally or illegally.
Yet again today, in Taft California, there was another school shooting - a student brought a shotgun into school and shot a classmate. Armed guards aren't the answer; The school pays $50k a year for an armed guard who just happened to call in sick the day he was needed the most. Then again, chances are he would have been too late and the kid would have gotten shot anyhow.
We have a massive crisis here - people are walking into schools and churches and malls and theatres and just fucking shooting people. The fucking NRA, the only organization who can help us here, the only solution they have is "more guns".
The NRA is going to cost us the 2nd amendment.