Media rocking again with he ought not to have had a gun.
OR
how could he get a gun legally?
IMO meanginless focus
People with suspened liccenses drive all the time
Some folks with mental illness are not focusing on statutes
It against the law to rob banks-- people do it
it illigal to have heroin -- people have heroin
It aganist the law to steal cars - people stral cars
Its against the law to murder someone -- people murder people
There are black markets for everything..
The notion that some law is going to change our nations problem with is IMO ludicrious.
We have had a horrid month. It is worth pointing out , now, that the simple statistic is that non Muslims kill more Americans than those with Muslim associations -- has been that way for decades.
The other reality here is that there are so many guns out there anyhow , at this point , if we suddenly stopped making them -- period- there are so many available.
Folks that intent on engaging in this behavior are going to in one way or another harm others.
Its fact -- America is a violent land - that is our reality.
If we want , at some level IMO to start to address this mess , a authentic starting point , IMO is to start building psyc facilties , where those suffering have a place to be.
That is about money so that wont happen.
Congress bla bla about those bump stock things -- what a bunch of hot air. As far as I know this was the first time LV- one was used.
Banning them does nothing but give congress some meaningless thing to waste their useless time on
I worked with felons (loved em it was amazing work). There is an entire belief system and thinking process about the world around them and most of us.
That is why incarnation has become less and less a deterrent. That is why we often here that most have long criminal histories and have been incarcerated in the past - and have just committed another crime .
We need long term mental health facilities -- where they are treated with dignity. Kinda like nursing homes -- long term placement .
Our current system of 24-72 hour lockups does nothing -- mental illness, generally speaking , is not a curable malady.
Mitigation is needed. Mitigation needs resources.
The human animal feels very uncomfortable with being powerless about some things,
After every mass shooting - embedded int the focus that this the perp had a gun illegally - quietly , in reality what that imo translates to underlying belief that if we just had a law -- we could control this phenomenon
Other nations that do have the correlation between strict gun laws and nowhere near as a violent society imo is about that nations culture before the strict gun laws.
Were a gun hoo society --that is cultural so that fix in our land can not imo alter our trajectory.
moo
