Mass shooting in Las Vegas. 50+ dead

[vorlon13]

I mentioned this particular shooting to Tibs this morning when I heard, not because of the height, but because of the lack of obvious motivation, and the later diagnosis of a brain tumor. I would not be surprised to learn that this man had something severely wrong with him that wasn't just pure evil. Of course, I wouldn't be surprised if he was just evil either.

The Kent state shooter back in the 60s had a brain tumor. Still a moot point to me. 

The sane need to stop allowing media to use motive as a distraction.

When a person with a brain defect gets a gun, it is still an issue of access.
When a criminal gets a firearm it is still an issue of access.
When a mentally ill person gets one like the Va Tech shooter, it is still an issue of access.
When a racist like Roof gets one, it is still an issue of access.
When a Muslim, like the Pulse shooter gets one, it is still an issue of access.


And even without taking mass shootings into account, the bulk of firearm deaths happen in the home or with someone the victim knew.

We have 36,000 firearm deaths per year on average. Mostly suicides, accidental, and domestic violence, between spouses, dating and neighbor on neighbor. 

So while funding mental health issues is important, ease of access is also a problem.

It was in Texas, not Ohio.

And as for specific palliative legislation to address this specific mass shooting, the autopsy findings on the shooter are highly relevant.  If he has an identifiable mass in his head plausibly influencing his behavior, a specific legislative remedy is obvious:

mass door to door compulsory CAT scans of everyone's head every 6 months

If, instead, he was a meth user or other drug abuser/addict, a different legislative remedy to address this specific finding would be:

mass door to door compulsory drug screenings every 6 months.

One certainly could not expect the second specific legislative remedy to be of any help in screening brain tumors (the first posited scenario), or vice versa.


And I would appreciate till we get some specific autopsy facts and FBI/ATF findings, all speculative legislative proposals at this stage need to be ID'd as such and/or limited or resitricted till we get those facts.

Particularly galling in past mass shootings was the plethora of legislative proposals widely agreed at the time (even by those proposing them) that in the specific event triggering the proposal it was acknowledged as being specifically ineffective that occasion.

So please, proposals for legislation at this time need to be tailored to what we know now, and those proposals if enacted earlier would have been obviously effective on this specific occurrence.

Thank you.