PredFan
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The weapon of choice or ability has nothing to do with the impulse to commit these horrible and unconscionable crimes.
So one more time:
To assume that it is necessary to have firearms of any type in order to commit mass murder is ludicrous. It can be done sabotaging mass transportion, with poisonous mushrooms or other toxins introduced into the food or water supply, with arson, flammable fuels, explosive gasses, nerve agents, C4, dynamite, molotov cocktails, or in the case of a recent incident in China, with a knife. etc. etc. etc.
So in this thread, let's respect the focus of the OP, set aside the 'how' for now, and focus on the 'why'.
It isn't as sexy a subject as the same old platitudes about gun control, but it is interesting to a lot of us.
How many guns did Tim McVey bring with him?
How many guns did those 11 terrorist use to hijack those airplanes?
Seriously, this whole debate about guns being a problem is so unbelievable. It's not about the guns, it's about the people who commit the crime, the murders. I don't know why people are focusing on guns.
I think some focus on guns because that is the politically corrrect target. Much less so are other issues such as pretty much kicking God out of the schools, downgrading Christmas to a totally secular holiday, an excess of violent video games, violent rap music, a culture in which it is socially dangerous for teachers to even touch, much less hug, a student, a society that drugs kids rather than deal with the occasionally hyperactive student, or even such seemingly benign things as our chemically altered diet.
Again our history is checkered with accounts of the rare serial killers and deranged maniac who goes berserk and creates mayhem. But these mass shootings lately seem to be something very different, carefully planned out and executed.
And that's where I put the blame on the media/ By relentlessly showing the who, what, where, and how, it is causing these killings to escalate.