I'm well aware that many come from home and as I've point our several times you cannot keep people from being careless. And "normal" people/children as a whole are not the ones doing these horrible things...they are typically disturbed individuals. Again, gun laws have not succeeded in curbing mass shootings...if anything, it's getting worse. That tells me that the problem/solution lies elsewhere.
Gun regulation is not working. Like I said, it's becoming even worse. Each time something like yesterday happens people start clamoring for even more gun restrictions/regulations/background checks, etc., and no matter how many bills are passed, people continue to do stupid things. And THAT will never change until we re-examine the problem and how to address it in a different and better way.
Very sad opinion, that is unfortunately shared by countless others. America does not have strict, enforced gun laws.
Sorry, but it not only happens to be my "opinion"...it's fact. Strictness of gun laws is debatable depending on whether someone happens to be a gun owner or not.
1. Those are not assumptions. An assumption would be a logical conclusion. Those were probabilistic guesses; 2. They looked more like they were based on common sense and I'll presume, although I don't know for certain, that he has extensive training in common sense.
Criminals are by definition something you always legislate against - and it never works 100% - otherwise there would not be any criminals. It is always about common sense - making it harder to get the resources for criminal activity.
Id say we need to investigate the mindset that makes teens think this is okay over the access to such weapons. The weapons aren't going away, but mindset can be changed, turned from negative to positive. What is making the kids feel so negative, depressive? This should be the focal point of investigating, not the access of weapons. General statement: Weapons have been around since the beginning of time. They will not go away. To focus on hand gun proliferation in this country would be a futile effort only resulting in complete chaos and civil war. Focus on the psychology and sociology that is warping our youths' minds.
Shooter was apparently a Boy Scout too. Not a manner of teaching kids responsibility, sounds like a psychotic breakdown of some kind.
I believe that we can probably predict people who will be of the shooter mindset via psychological tests. If those aren't available now, you can probably develop tests and administer them. Then you isolate those individuals or watch them more carefully.
I think it would also help if the warning signs that are often on facebook/twitter et al, would send up red flags and that those flags were reported. fwiw, facebook/twitter et al, are the devil
This is so un-american of you to call our youth so much worse than the youth on most other developed countries.
I think the planet equally distributes mentally unstable people, but one country in particular seems to have an infatuation with weapons and it's citizens "god given" rights to have them, and has school shootings more than anywhere else. So we have multiple issues and ALL need to be addressed. Unfortunately I feel like I have stated this a dozen times because we keep having fucking school shootings. We need more school security, we need more mental health at the adolescent level continuing through early adulthood, we need locks on doors, barriers, we need all of that AND we need better gun regulations, cutting out loopholes, gun shows, private sales, types of guns - AR15s etc banned - all of it. I would love to treat every person with a mental disorder, and we should. But IN THE MEANTIME maybe we can put some things in place that doesnt make it so goddamn easy and available. And this goes for all guns. Which is why the gun owner needs to have the fear of god in him that if he doesnt know where his sweet precious gun is and it gets stolen he is fucked, will go to prison and lose everything.
I am with you, at least partially once you get into punishing people for having a crime committed against them then that's where I veer off, but to each their own I suppose. It's like you're a criminal because someone else committed a crime against you. That same sort of argument doesn't work anywhere else, why should it work here? It's like blaming a girl for being pretty when they get raped or blaming a Black person for being black and getting lynched. You cannot IMO treat people who are victims of a crime as though they are the criminal.
