(February 23, 2018 at 3:30 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote:(February 23, 2018 at 3:17 pm)Cyberman Wrote: Thing is, though, at the moment the freedoms of speech and assembly are not slaughtering people.
You're right. Criminals are. And if you look at what actually happened in Florida it becomes increasingly clear that law enforcement, social services, and a whole host of people who should have been able to stop Cruz either failed to do so or believed they lacked the authority to do anything. Schools are so scared of being sued and teachers accused of abuse that disturbed children are kept in classrooms and from a very early age do not receive the care and concern they need and deserve.
And while I do not mean to blame the victims or excuse his evil, it is clear that Cruz was bullied, humiliated and socially rejected by his peers. And even now, the claim is that he was some mentally ill wack-job. Maybe, it he had been treated like a human being or befriended by even a few schoolmate willing to defend his sense of human dignity he would not have been so willing to dehumanize his victims.
Yes to all of that, but you must admit it was compounded because he lived in a society where it is too easy to get guns.
A hurt loner with a gun does more harm than a hurt loner with anything else.
The person is part of the problem, but add a gun and you get mass death time and time again.
We will have this same debate in a week or so when the next mass shooting happens.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.
