RE: Again....But it's never the guns!
December 22, 2012 at 10:25 am
(This post was last modified: December 22, 2012 at 10:28 am by The Grand Nudger.)
2O kids and 6 adults died because -someone committed a crime-
Fixed that for you. The status quo is not fine. We have, in actuality, a robust set of federal and state gun laws that are woefully under-enforced (some of them are such that the mind reels as to how they might be enforced without results as equally terrifying as a mass shooting from an entirely different angle). There are many many people in this country- so many, in fact, that a goodly number are bound to be mouth-breathing and or batshit crazy jackasses with access to guns. So long as there are human beings and laws crimes will be committed. If you have even a minor inclination that a method of -proactively preventing a crime- would be a universally positive strategy then I implore you to pick up some good sci-fi and take a read. Start with Philip K Dick (who wrote an entire novel about this very inclination and how it could so easily go horribly awry). Personally, I think that as horrible as it sounds, we might actually have to wait until a person has committed a crime before we leverage legal process to strip them of rights by way of a justification from crime.
Fixed that for you. The status quo is not fine. We have, in actuality, a robust set of federal and state gun laws that are woefully under-enforced (some of them are such that the mind reels as to how they might be enforced without results as equally terrifying as a mass shooting from an entirely different angle). There are many many people in this country- so many, in fact, that a goodly number are bound to be mouth-breathing and or batshit crazy jackasses with access to guns. So long as there are human beings and laws crimes will be committed. If you have even a minor inclination that a method of -proactively preventing a crime- would be a universally positive strategy then I implore you to pick up some good sci-fi and take a read. Start with Philip K Dick (who wrote an entire novel about this very inclination and how it could so easily go horribly awry). Personally, I think that as horrible as it sounds, we might actually have to wait until a person has committed a crime before we leverage legal process to strip them of rights by way of a justification from crime.
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