WTF is wrong with people and how can this shit be prevented. We aren't safe anywhere. ****. My prayers and condolences to those affected. ****.
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You know the answer....and how can this shit be prevented.
I'm sorry to hear that bud.You know the answer.
I have a lot of family and friends in/around Vegas. I grew up there. I've had friends and an older brother killed by gunfire. This shit is hitting me pretty hard.
WTF is wrong with people and how can this shit be prevented. We aren't safe anywhere. ****. My prayers and condolences to those affected. ****.
Statistically, I agree - I'll reword it. Shit like this makes me wonder if I am safe anywhere. When the D.C. snipers were murdering people in Fredericksburg, VA (my home), I was scared to go to stand at a ******* gas pump.but to say that 'we're not safe anywhere' is demonstrably false.
Wouldn't really help I don't think...Most of them dust themselves as soon as they experience armed resistance.I don't know what the answer for this is. I know it isn't more gun laws because these guys won't obey those laws or any other laws. Maybe if we started torturing them publicly? Sorry but I'd watch that.
Wouldn't really help I don't think...Most of them dust themselves as soon as they experience armed resistance.
I honestly think they're in it mainly for the infamy and record. They already want to kill themselves for whatever reason and decide they might as well be the biggest mass shooting in history for a while. If they're already going to die, what does it matter what the consequences are? We can't incarcerate or torture a dead man. Well...we could...but it wouldn't really help.
Keeping their information out of the news and thereby reducing the fame they achieve just simply isn't an option...it's public record, it should be public record, and the public wants to know. Because the public wants to know, the news sources will report it.
The real true answer is we simply can't prevent them. Even in countries with very heavy restrictions, they still happen...check out Paris. They do happen to a lesser degree, that's true, but is that worth giving up our 2A rights? Not by a light year IMO. I believe since they, typically, go down easily once they encounter resistance, we need to reduce the time we can put resistance on an active shooter. I think we've already done a great job at this in lots of places, however, they're going to keep finding week points. They have all the time in the world to study and figure out a way through our defenses.
There just isn't an easy answer. If there was, we would have solved it a while ago. Freedom can be a scary place, but like has been said before, we need not let evil prevail. We need to keep the good of America alive and well in the face of this evil. Don't allow them to shape our lives.
I think this is the main disconnect. Nobody (well, some people do, I guess) wants to "take away" your second amendment right to own a gun. Most people just want to restrict access to guns capable of this kind of destruction. There's no reason any human being should legally be able to stockpile 20 fully automatic weapons capable of mass slaughter. Zero.They do happen to a lesser degree, that's true, but is that worth giving up our 2A rights? Not by a light year IMO.
I would make the argument that any firearm, in the wrong persons hands, has the ability to cause this kind of destruction.I think this is the main disconnect. Nobody (well, some people do, I guess) wants to "take away" your second amendment right to own a gun. Most people just want to restrict access to guns capable of this kind of destruction. There's no reason any human being should legally be able to stockpile 20 fully automatic weapons capable of mass slaughter. Zero.
By the way, here's the actual 2A:
"A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Allowing people to stockpile dozens of assault rifles with large clips (or magazines, or whatever they are called) was NOT what they had in mind when they wrote the 2A. They wrote it when we needed to defend ourselves from foreign invasion, and at a time when guns held 1 bullet. The Vegas guy (and any other mass shooter) does not qualify as "a well regulated Militia."