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Originally Posted by dyna mo
I'm having a hard time withholding comments here, you know me I like to state my views here at teh gfy but the simple fact is as much as I try, I can't put myself in the shoes of anyone involved in the event. Not the victims, not the victim's dad, not the shooter, well, I think I can kinda see wtf there, but not his parents, not the multiple therapists seeing this guy, not the police interviewing him.
That leads me to think this is a completely random event and it's very difficult to legislate random acts. As much as I would like a way to keep guns from people like this, I'd be hard-pressed to change laws based on background checks, if those background checks are psychology based. The science isn't there.
I do think there is value in what crockett stated re: prison reform and I also think there is value in media reform. The media is very responsible here, well, a better way to say that is the media is very irresponsible here.
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Well you can't legislate based on these kind of event because in almost all instances they get the guns legally. However the week prior to his mass killing spree 80 people were killed with guns around the country.
What I'd be interested in, is seeing a break down of each individual gun related death and see them categorized by things like violent crime, lovers quarrel, accident, self defense, random argument, was gun ownership legal or criminal...ect..ect..
It's hard to judge where the problem is, aside people dying, when we just get body count numbers, rather than reasons behind the deaths. For what ever reason no one seems to track that kind of data, at least no one I've seen.
If you know where the gun deaths are coming from, then you better know how to attack the issue.