[autonomous]

We've seen it a thousand times over and over and over. The media seizes on the back of this national tragedy to try to piggyback their anti-Second Amendment national agenda right on top of the back of the national tragedy and try to force it on Americans all over the country.

[ColossalContrarian]

I wonder if mass murders were common when Rome was collapsing or even the Soviet Union?

[careinke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ColossalContrarian', 'I') wonder if mass murders were common when Rome was collapsing or even the Soviet Union?

[basil_hayden]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'O')n Friday, police officers and agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation swarmed through the Lanzas’ neighborhood, blocking off streets and asking residents to leave their homes.

[ralfy]

Lack of gun control plus mental illness.

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ralfy', 'L')ack of gun control plus mental illness.

[ralfy]

I agree! There are many more factors to consider, including the need to profit from arms sales, exposure to various facets of commercial mass entertainment, the use of various drugs such as anti-depressants, combinations of social pressure, self-entitlement, and hedonism, and so forth.

[Lore]

The good thing about knives and swords is that you can always attempt to run away from them. It's pretty hard to outrun a bullet.

[topcat]

No, following firearms, all bows (recurve, compound, and cross) would be taken next. THEN, it will be the pointy objects. Ask the UK, or closer to home, ask New York City about knives. Sheeesh!

[ColossalContrarian]

The common theme here is rich white kids, not guns or mental health.

Rich people need to pay attention to their children and actually BE PARENTS!!! not friends, not buddies, but PARENTS!!!

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Lore', 'T')he good thing about knives and swords is that you can always attempt to run away from them. It's pretty hard to outrun a bullet.

[WildRose]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('ColossalContrarian', 'T')he common theme here is rich white kids, not guns or mental health.

Rich people need to pay attention to their children and actually BE PARENTS!!! not friends, not buddies, but PARENTS!!!

[WildRose]

There's something else that bothers me about these types of tragedies. I don't know how spiritual or religious any of you are (we all have our own belief systems), but it seems that sometimes evil is just looking for an opportunity in a screwed up soul.

[topcat]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'b')y ColossalContrarian » Sun Dec 16, 2012 2:53 pm

The common theme here is rich white kids, not guns or mental health.

Rich people need to pay attention to their children and actually BE PARENTS!!! not friends, not buddies, but PARENTS!!!

[ColossalContrarian]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('topcat', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'b')y ColossalContrarian » Sun Dec 16, 2012 2:53 pm

The common theme here is rich white kids, not guns or mental health.

Rich people need to pay attention to their children and actually BE PARENTS!!! not friends, not buddies, but PARENTS!!!

[Serial_Worrier]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('pstarr', 'W')e already have gun control (automatic weapons, IED's, shoulder-fired missiles, knee-mortars are illegal). What we need is a decent national mental health program--like other civilized countries. We could stop the glorification of weaponry. USA is the largest weapons exporter, we own and operate the world's largest military, and our forces are in 120 countries.