Posted on 05/28/2014 9:48:11 AM PDT by raptor22
Guns: The Santa Barbara shooter had legally purchased and registered firearms, and passed prior questioning by the police who saw no danger to himself or others. More gun laws won't stop the next such shooter, either.
It is eerie how the mental health of the shooter consistently seems to emerge as a key factor in mass shootings such as the rampage by Elliot Rodger, who killed six and wounded 13 on Friday. The shooter had been in therapy since age 8 and police had been warned by his parents to check him out.
Yet few liberals cry for tougher mental health laws compared with demands for tougher gun control. It would surprise these liberals that "right-wing bitter clingers" and even the NRA agree that some people shouldn't have access to guns — people such as Elliot Rodger.
The question is how to realistically and constitutionally do it. Instead of answering that question, we hear cries for "tougher" laws. But tougher than what?
Last December the Los Angeles Times noted in a report that California had the strictest gun control laws in the country and had received an A- grade in a state-by-state analysis by the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.
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That's the first I've heard that his parents warned police to "check him out." This dude was nothing more than a ticking time bomb that finally went off.
The one lesson that intelligent people draw from this is that the government CANNOT protect you.
No amount of gun control law will stop a demonic possesed person from killing.
Regulate Beemers.
A good question with a simple answer. Since "tougher gun laws" will not stop such killings, the cries will never cease as long as guns are available at all.
IOW, gun laws can never be tough enough. Any gun crime will result in calls for tougher laws, no matter how tough they already are.
An article was posted last week where it was stated that all of these shooters are on psychotropic drugs. Most seem to warn of dangers of depression and suicide. Is anyone looking at this issue? Or is it a fiscal problem for the drug and insurance companies, where a lot political campaign cash comes from. Or is it a nice fit for the political issue for Democrats to disarm the population and ease in their anticipated communist takeover. The bodies keep stacking up.
.....Or they want a tougher law so that it lands up in a fed court, most likely the USSC as a test case.
We should ditch the laws altogether. A shooter is going to get a gun and use it no matter what the law says. Its foolish to believe a law stops anyone from committing a crime.
So called “reasonable” gun laws are reasonably stupid.
Therapy since 8 is what led to this behavior. You can’t possibly have a kid grow up healthy when the therapy culture is all about self esteem and learning victimhood. The kid should have been in church groups, boy scouts, and playing sports. The things boys are suppose to do. Nope, the kid lived a sheltered life in an office where he learned how the world revolves around himself and pumped full of drugs. Ultimately he is responsible for pulling the trigger and stabbing his victims. But since the people always want to blame something for these catastrophes I lay the blame on his parents and the lifestyle they lived.
BUT, Nancy Pelosi is doing all she can to kill it and telling Democrats to withdraw their support.
It appears since it is an election year, she doesn't want the Republicans to have even a single example of bipartisan success - even on something as serious and important as this.
No amount of gun control law will stop a demonic possesed person from killing.
EVEN if you disarm the populace a nut job will use whatever it takes to harm others to get the job done whether by knives, machetes, lead pipes, ballpoint pins, etc...Why not consider the fact that if the government wouldn’t have removed God, moral decency, and the ability to punish our children while instead pushing faggotry, destroying the family unit, rewriting history, pushing liberal ideologies, emasculating men, regulating and overtaxing everything to hell so our home lives would have been more stable you wouldn’t be dealing with this BS now. The government is like a cancer. It kills everything it comes into contact with because it is largely controlled by rich, professionally trained liars who are non-empathetic and out-of-touch sociopaths whose greed surpasses their need to serve you interests like they promised they would. Well of course...they’re liars.
I agree. You send a kid to therapy instead of loving and spending time with them and they will think something is wrong with them and will act out sooner or later.
“The Santa Barbara shooter had legally purchased and registered firearms”
I don’t think the process was legal. It appears he lied on his 4473 when answering questions about his mental state and mental treatment.
So although he ‘passed’, he lied on his 4473, which is ... against the law.
We need more laws. /$
Apparently the Violence Against Women Act and Gun Control Act of 1968 were not in his numerous therapist’s reading recommendation list.
As an alternative couldn’t they use a Ryder truck or a rice cooker?
/S
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