Originally Posted by dkveuro

I have not read every post in this thread, so my apologies if i seem to repeat others comments....

Opinion.

I lay the blame strictly on the shoulders of the media. Sensationalizing this ad nauseum for hours on end with only the sole intention ( So it seems.) of finding out who had done it and publishing his picture for the world to see .

You'll all remember the Columbine shooters, the collage shooter, and the Washington sniper etc, by sight and name....but who of you can name one victim ?

Because of this notoriety, someone watching this, somewhere, is going to top it. They will want to go out in a blaze of glory having bested an already atrocious crime.

Most of us do not, or have never been inside a mental institution and seen how the mind can and does weird things to ones frame of reference, from voices to irrational thought. ( Watching 'One Flew Over The Cuckoos' Nest' does not count. )

This railing against gun ownership is a mistaken cure for this kind of thing. More attention to the drugs prescribed to people should be addressed. Eli Lilly was central to a law suit about Zyprexa, one company amongst other pharma companies with dubious record of drug side effects. Prosac and other drugs are similarly suspect.

The mental heath of all these individuals along with their medical records is in question as no reasonable person could be capable of such horrific acts.

I have no solution to these happenings but for one, don't think gun control is going to make any difference....as has been said, only the law abiding will conform.

In the UK, gun crime is still a problem, and then are you going to ban fertilizers and weed killer, knives, sharp pointy objects etc etc.?. How about motor vehicle traffic...they kill thousands around the globe each year....aircraft can kill hundreds at a time but we still fly.

Schooling every kid at home is not going to work either. More gun crime is committed in homes than in the street. If you need to see how casual some folk are about killing...watch the video of the guy gunned down in the street in New York the other day.

I see the gun ban lobby as a knee jerk reaction. No doubt something else will happen in a little while and the public, being what it is, will move on to that. We are a strange species.

...besides, here's a thought. When there's trouble...how come we call people with guns ?




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