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Originally Posted by detamble13
Sad. I agree that the name of the shooter should remain anonymous but more has to change to make a difference. I'm not saying let's take away everyone's gun but let's be honest here this will happen again because nothing will change.
How would you feel if your child was murdered? Would your first thought be your gun rights?
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My first thought is always that people are the problem. It's not guns. It's apparently not knives either. Guns are just easy to attack. The father was outraged, and rightly so. I can't imagine losing a child like that. However, his anger was misplaced. The gun was just the tool of choice, just as the knife was the tool for choice for three others.
But where was his outrage at the individual? What about the lack of action when his parents reported him? The lack of action with all of the signs... videos and written statements. Can anyone seriously say that the police didn't have every right to throw that loser in jail after publically announcing how he wants to kill people?
But hypothetically, lets say there would be a prohibition on guns. Then what? Let's even hypothetically say that no gun murders ever happen again. What about the tens of thousands of other murders with other tools, or the murders with tools that will replace guns. Do we perform background checks and sanity checks for knives? What about chemicals that can be used to poison (this happens a surprising amount each year). What about when cars are used? Or is that ok because it's rare? How about other inanimate objects... bats, crowbars, wrenches.... What is to be done about those? How many objects need to be addressed before we, as a society, are capable of admitting and addressing that we have a lot of problems (mental health and otherwise) that are driving people to do this kind of terrible thing?
You are certainly right, this will happen again. Crazed people have been killing each other since the time they figured they could pick up rocks. The focus needs to be on the crazy, not the tool. The common denominator is ALWAYS a person.