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I think this is what is scaring people so much. It’s not about guns or the lack of guns; it’s about how dangerous this guy was, how it went virtually unnoticed, and what was noticed, there was nothing done about it and nothing that could be done about it. In other words, we have no protection against this kind of thing at all.
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Essentially no. About the best you could do would be to ban guns.
Only problem with that is that banning guns doesn’t lower the number of people murdered in a year (given that the number of people who go on a shooting rampage is insignificant in a macro sense and that’s the only sort of murderer who would be stopped), and leaves the populace unarmed which is potentially more threatening in the long run, depending on how pessimistic you are. Personally, I’m that pessimistic and think that you’d do better to focus on breaking up the ghettos to prevent murder, but in a factual sense, as said, outlawing guns is about all you can do to prevent this particular type of murder.
i did find it amusingly telling when a non-nbc news anchor asked the reporter outside the post office, “did anyone ask the clerk if it was only the one package?”
yes, i did snort and mutter jealous. how sad is it that no doubt quite a few people in the news biz bleated, “why nbc???!!”
oy!
by the way the answer was “yes, just the one envelope.”
[QUOTE=bigbabysweets2000]
Look how long it took before anybody with a computer was able to download and watch Saddam being hung, even though it was never supposed to air.
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Really? Where the hell do people find this stuff?
[QUOTE=lieu]
Before, when all we had were static, still pictures of him, he seemed more of a sad, lost figure. Now, especially with all the planning, documentation and incoherent, “I’m a victim” bullshit he’s produced, I find myself viewing him in an utterly despicable light.
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He is still a victim - of an illness, not of society - and still deserves sympathy. What you saw him write was the product of a brain that wasn’t seeing or understanding reason. In his world, he was being put upon by everyone around. He believed what he said and wrote.
Thank Whomever every day that you are not that way afflicted and pray that you never become so. It’s an awful fate to be so sick that you do something awful and that people then hate you when you never asked to be sick in the first place.
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster]
He is still a victim - of an illness, not of society - and still deserves sympathy.
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Nope. Sorry! Suck it up, Konbeto-san! Don’t kill anybody on the way to the Wuss-a-rama!
Gah, so they’re showing his video.
Idiots. You realise that similarly inclined idiots are more likely to go out on a crusade as well the more it looks like the first one was a “cool dude.” NBC should get sued if the video prompts a second shooting.
I posted something that I now see completely missed the point. I retract what I previously said here, as it was not relevant.
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yes, i did snort and mutter jealous. how sad is it that no doubt quite a few people in the news biz bleated, “why nbc???!!”
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Heh, maybe the guy really liked Seinfeld.