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Originally Posted by tysdad115
So you're one of them blame the gun guys. Blaming inanimate objects for acts of people. Makes sense, we must need more laws, criminals always follow laws. Maybe some more signs, gun free zones..yes those will work.
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Good points. And since the manufacture of guns will not and cannot be prohibited which is the only way to keep guns out of the hands of criminals or crazy people, perhaps we should more completely root out the other objects to blame for mass shootings. And since the ones we are mostly shocked and angry about occur in schools, maybe we could eliminate the schools since crowded ones seem to be magnets for mass shootings. That would certainly be more effective than more ineffective gun laws. Then, of course, we could prohibit movies, novels, stories, TV programs, internet blogs, etc. which glorify anti-social behavior which might influence sensitive minds to go berserk. The poor guy who committed this current atrocity was a victim not only of the existence and availability of guns, but all that other stuff--the schools just sitting there filled with easy targets, the movies, the news, the blogs--how could he not help but do what he did. There is this bit of "news":
UPDATE: CBS News reports that a blog purportedly written by the killer spoke longingly of the fame given to mass shooters:
Posts on an online blog that appears to belong to Mercer reference multiple shootings, including one in Virginia in August that left a television news reporter and cameraman dead. The last upload on the blog was Wednesday. when a documentary about the Newtown shooting was posted.
In one post on the blog about Vester Flanagan, the man who killed the reporter and cameraman in Virginia, Mercer apparently wrote, “I have noticed that so many people like [Flanagan] are alone and unknown, yet when they spill a little blood, the whole world knows who they are. A man who was known by no one, is now known by everyone. His face splashed across every screen, his name across the lips of every person on the planet, all in the course of one day. Seems like the more people you kill, the more you’re in the limelight.”
And it appears that he did not use a dreaded "assault" gun, whatever that is, but a more regular one--which apparently assaulted very well.