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RE: Mass violence... have instability and will then there is a way...
Great post. You make some great points. There are weapons all around us. I think the most dangerous one is probably the car!
I suspect it would be very expensive to deal with actually having proper mental health screening and care for those that need it. I doubt that issue will get confronted because of that.
Actually confronting the issue is difficult. EXTREMELY difficult.
Giving a man a fish, easy, if you have extra. Teaching a man to fish is a lot of time, money and effort.
The govern-cement does do anything it can't just throw money at. Because doing anything real requires effort.
If everyone went to court and fought their speeding ticket, the entire govern-cement would grind to a halt.
If everyone busted for pot fought it in court, the entire govern-cement would grind to a halt.
If it isn't as simple as catch someone, throw them in a cage. Govern-cement wouldn't do it.
Helping the poor and homeless is a PAIN IN THE ASS. Makes herding cats seem easy. This actually helping. Trying to get them a place to stay, getting them into a routine, help them get a job or any sort of skill... Hard, hard work.
Helping out the mental health needing people... Insanely hard. Usually it ends up, drug them until they sit still.
What the govern-cement wants is, "Oh, looks like our records show that you were diagnosed by your school psychologist with ADD and put on SSRIs a decade ago, well, you can't have a gun.
Govern-cement.... heheh... never heard that one before.
Spot on. Great points:)
The guy that killed a bunch of people with a truck in France kind of backs you up on the Car issue. Really our MINDS give us the ability to be really deadly. It all depends upon how much thought we put into it and what our goals are.
Fortunately I would think a lot of these mass shootings were not going for maximum damage. It seems more like an afterthought... otherwise I would have expected something much worse.
Yes plus I think since the people were not thinking rationally so it could have been a lot worse.
In thinking SERIOUSLY about these things all I have to do is think WHAT WOULD I DO, if I wanted mass casualties. My knowledge is limited, but with what little I do know what these things show is not that scary... I mean the only cases in recent history that are more frightening than what I could come up with are the Oklahoma City Bombing.... because, I have never looked into bombs, and 9-11. Columbine, Sandy Hook, etc could have been WAY worse if mass casualties were the goal.
That's the scary thing it doesn't take much effort to do a lot of damage so we should be grateful that these kind of people are not thinking rationally.