First and foremost, my deepest sympathies to the families of all the victims of this senseless tragedy.
I believe the root cause of this tragedy is the result of someone who is mentally ill in the most severe way...And, unfortunately mental illness in our society is often ignored misdiagnosed, untreated, etc...Our country needs to wake up to the fact this issue needs to be addressed. Yes, improved gun control, less sensationalism, greater security will lessens the chance of these events occurring. However, until society full acknowledges the issue of mental illness and attempts to address it we have failed to do all that can be done.
The pain created by this sad event is beyond my comprehension...
I knew it wouldn't take long. It's the guns fault. Those guns Travis were legal BTW. 911 and Oklahoma City were mass murder on a larger scalle and no guns were used in either
case. When a drunk driver kills an innocent you never hear lets ban cars but ...guns are bad to the reactionaries out there and it's always the same thing. On the contrary, if that principle
or one of those teachers had a side arm with them I'd wager that the number of dead would be lower than it was.
I see UM still has a problem with reading comprehension......
Given the past posts by Travis Bickle, I think UM properly inferred what he meant by "improved gun control". I agree with UM's post and the others who said that if the principal or teachers had been armed, the death toll would have been a lot less. Self defense is a natural right that should never be infringed.
As far as TB's point about mental illness, I don't disagree. But I don't trust the mental health profession to solve the problem either. At best, that profession is pseudo-science, at worst outright quackery. After all, this is the profession that convinced us it was better to give every kid a trophy to protect their fragile egos. I believe that this "pussification" is the real root cause of people going bonkers like this. They just aren't raised to be as mentally tough as kids of the past, therefore they just can't handle it when adversity strikes, and they often snap. I really think that any child psychologist that advocates that kind of bs ought to have their license permanently revoked.
As far as the Westboro baptist Church goes, this is a new low even for them.