Posted on 07/22/2012 10:22:49 PM PDT by Lazamataz
Be of good cheer. If anyone will be able to recover this miscreant's name a hundred years from now I'll be suprised. Contrary to the crypto-anarchist manifestor and battle-cry that "Information wants to be free", anyone who is really paying attention will know that information really only wants to die. You can take a certain amount of comfort, good sir, in the fact that 500 years from now, our decendants will know more about our ancestors that lived 150 years ago than they will about us, who live in the middle of the "information age". Maintaining data integrity over the long haul is a seriosly tough proposition in the digital age. Who do you know with floppies that might as well be alien artifacts, given how much data they can actually still read from them.
Personally, I gain comfort from the fact that there is a damn good chance that 100 years from now, there will likely to be few, if any ways to tell Ieven existed on this planet. Then again, I might just be weird. Might have something to to with me having been at least somewhat one of those crypto-anarcists I mentioned previously.
The real solution to people attempting to commit mass murder is to stop them with overwhelming firepower after their first shot.
If you don't arm yourself with means of protecting you and yours, then you obviously don't care enough about you and yours.
Me, I wonder what those grinning, simpering faces would look like if they saw someone like me sighted in on their beady little eyes in front of them, and not a bunch of cowering victims. I suspect their bowels would quickly empty. Their fantasy is power over the powerless.
Kill the threat, do not worry about ways to make him less apt to attack. That would be for politicians to worry about, and we all know how useful they are.
Don’t you ever freaking sleep?!!?
Totally agree. Wouldn't stop 'em all, but it would a few I think. Good for the victims families as well. Unfortunately, it won't happen - but no doubt the easiest deterrent because it's after the fact and would make potential evil scum think twice.
Ummmm, maybe not...
I saw the beginning of Huckabee’s program and he said he refuses to speak the man’s name. He began to talk about the shooting but never called the man by his name.
you are on to something...
this shows a problem with our society. He may not be an “evil man” rather an a-moral one, someone brought up with no sense of right or wrong and who did not get this from the society he grew up in.
Don't get me wrong -- he deserves the punishment he will get and he has no excuse -- he could have learned on his own (there are people who have grown up in evil and yet strived towards good), but I ALSO see this as an indictment against all of us for allowing our society to be like this
Damn it, you are smarter even than you seem. I have been up nights with a feeding tot thinking of answers. I even had a great, calm talk with a liberal friend who soon saw the reason why her precious gun control would not have worked. My brother still thinks that if we had more laws against weapons this guy would only have shot 10 instead of 70... But I never came up with an actual solution. We left it at detente; freedom means sometimes kooks abuse it and hurt others.
But you are right. Not sure that one could get away with forbidding the suspect from being spoken of, but if society agreed that naming and discussing the sicko is as disgusting as pedophilia, it would actually be a deterrent.
Punishment and even death don’t deter. They just want to be heinous and infamous.
Hmmm, you are onto something.
But the stoopids of the world just go and put the psyco’s paintings on sale on e-bay for a million bucks. Or our own Govt goes and nails the gun he used to a piece of wood with a brass plaque and makes an idol out of it.
Im with ya all the way, but as will all great plans, there are just too many yahoos around to let it work.
Anyone living under those conditions would be dead in two days from diarrhea dehydration. Only dogs can eat their own waste and live.
“Another problem I have with this is that the psychopaths would have succeeded in changing society...Imagine the control needed to accomplish this.”
Exactly as happened after 911.
An excellent solution to a lot of societal problems is shunning. The problem is that there is no way to achieve universal compliance in a huge and varied society.
When the Pilgrims colonized America, and towns were small, shunning worked like a charm because people were united, and everyone knew the reason for the shunning.
Now there are too many different opinions about practically everything to get universal compliance, and threats of jail or other punishment are too Brokko-bams-like to be tolerated in a free country.
You may have to settle for limited success if we ever try to implement this.
Thank you so much! You made me think about this.
I suggest a trial run using the Kardashians and the cast of Jersey Shore. If it works, society will see the wisdom of your idea.
How about throwing the “producers” of these dysfunctioning morons into jail due to bad “quality control”?
How do the people responsible for raising such an amoral monster get a pass?
How about the parents, concerned for the greater society, get in touch with the cops to keep an eye out for strange behavior...no accusations, just a heads up...?
Lather, rinse, repeat and this issue becomes even more rare than it already is...
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