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I don’t know how many more massacres it will take, before the country realizes that our system is not working.

All the attention is on terrorism by foreigners.
What are these massacres doing if not terrorizing, even if it’s done by our own?
It’s different when shoppers are killed by a US citizen?
I son’t think so. The effect is the same, and the vicitms are just as dead.

This report was issued about a year after the Columbine shootings.

This older report also shows there is support among many for gun control.

It would be bold, but the next President Clinton might seek to get the Second Amendment repealed. Failing that, as some weapons already are illegal, additional ones could be made illegal (the concealable kind) or subject to licensure or the equivalent of the federal-permission-and-tax-payment that applies to suppressors and to machine guns.

That’s about the wisest saying I’ve heard lately

What we have are a lot of unbalanced people combined with an ability for them to do their worst without much planning, at a safe distance, with little personal risk.

Guns are enablers, much like the anonimity of the Internet enables verbal attacks. It’s easy, it doesn’t require much forethought, and there is little personal risk.

one form of lethality or another … guns …

A right-wing guy whom I’ve read a bit (who fled communist Central Europe years ago), is amazed we don’t have gun control in this country.

“A knife takes courage; poison takes time. A gun requires neither.”

Gunman “hated Christians” — law-enforcement official

I can only say, that once again, likely the person or persons who were the shooters at the churches, will have had a history of instability that too many did not recognize for its homicidal and suicidal nature, or misinterpreted the severity of what they were seeing.

really? because i’m pretty sure you could also say it’s possible that the “shooter” was pretty much OK until one of the pedophilic elders of the church sexually abused them.

or you could also say that they might have been pretty much OK until they were driven to the edge by any number of antibiological repressions that were forced upon them by the tragically repressed ministry that they quite possible could be taking revenge upon…

but then, that would just be speculation…

And they continue to insist that Religion in America is not under attack.

there are so many things wrong with this inflammatory statement, i don’t even know where to start…

Dr. E, you do point out something many people know, that usually there are warning signs far before a person cracks, but I wonder: how do you know when it’s gone far enough to take measures? I can imagine that the total number of disturbed people is far larger than the number who eventually crack and go on rampages. Many may live out their lives without ever harming anyone. The brother of a friend of mine is such an example. He’s not well, hypocondriac and a control-freak, with uncontrollable anger whenever he doesn’t get his way. He once threatened his family with a knife and went on medication. He’s not taking that medication now and so far has not become violent again, but you can see his tendencies simmering under the surface. He’s been told he needs help but declines. If he someday goes on a rampage I will not be surprised, but I don’t see what one can do, or when the time is to do it.

I wonder though if that is the only issue. Do you believe that one form of lethality or another would be found by the one who is losing control? Or would it help if we didn’t have so many guns so readily available?