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To: STD

What delusional world do you live in? Sometimes, staggeringly evil events take place and are a random act, not a component of some massive conspiracy.

Restrictive gun laws will not stop mass murders such as this tragedy. Removing insane people, such as this shooter, from the population in advance, will.


71 posted on 12/14/2012 11:48:00 AM PST by DickBrannigan (When did logic become reversed, and right became wrong, and wrong became right?)
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To: DickBrannigan

Well, yeah, but you’re putting the authority to determine who’s a possible shooter into the hands of the government...


74 posted on 12/14/2012 11:51:20 AM PST by ArmstedFragg (hoaxy dopey changey)
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To: DickBrannigan
You nailed it.

What we are dealing with is a social epidemic and involves the process by which affected people are identified and dealt with.

78 posted on 12/14/2012 11:54:48 AM PST by skeeter
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To: DickBrannigan; STD

I’d like to agree with you but unfortunately Fast and Furious already contains the most important elements of the so-called conspiracy theory and makes extensions of that theory plausible, even if not proven. In other words, it is on the menu of possibilities.

Sadly, I believe the current administration is capable of perpetrating this level of inhumanity. A brief survey of the history of Marxist regimes of the previous century should be enough to convince any rational person that there is a very real risk for the people attracted to such movements to value political goals more highly than innocent human life.

However, like you, I also believe that sometimes bad things, on a large scale, can happen without resort to any secretive explanation. There is such a thing as insanity, and it can occasionally manifest itself in the most painful of ways.

My own principle is to eliminate neither option until more is known. I am curious about the supposed second shooter, for example. That would mitigate against randomness. Or is he the fictional byproduct of the fog of war? Who knows. Time will tell.


95 posted on 12/14/2012 12:37:11 PM PST by Springfield Reformer (Winston Churchill: No Peace Till Victory!)
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To: DickBrannigan

“Removing insane people, such as this shooter, from the population in advance, will.”

That seems to be a proper solution to some of these type things. Problem I find with it is that certain people are going to set “standards” that determine sanity, and those certain people will have their own agendas, which could lead to the “removing” of people they find opposing their particular politics.

The solution is concealed carry, maybe even mandatory concealed carry for teachers and other adults on school campuses. Better than watching a lunatic slaughter kids while a teacher can do about nothing.

I don’t like the idea of “removing” people from society that have not yet committed a crime by evaluating their potential for committing a crime. I think there may have been a novel or movie made using that theme.

With concealed carry, the social misfits will be “removed” from society when they pull a stunt like this fellow did and a good guy with a gun eliminates the threat.


113 posted on 12/14/2012 1:30:05 PM PST by Blue Collar Christian (I hope we're ready to get a real candidate next time. C'mon GOP! <BCC><)
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