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So what's the answer?

I posted this in another thread...

Here is the problem, if you have a highly motivated/deeply troubled individual, there is NO LAW that will stop them.

If someone wants to do something, laws or not, they will find the means to do it. That goes for guns, drugs, violence, anything.

You have to figure out better ways to prepare and defend against possible threats.
 
BloodyBaroness said:
You have to figure out better ways to prepare and defend against possible threats.
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Like what? :shrugs:

Also, I'd like to hear opinions on why things like this are so common in America. Yes, crazy things like this can and do happen world wide but it seems to be FAR more prevalent in the U.S. So, obviously there is something different about the U.S. that perhaps needs to change.
 
Better security measures, give police back the right to actually be police, address how to respond to threats with employees, the list is huge and goes on and on. People are just too worried about being politically correct and not hurt feelings to address the issue properly.

Violence is here, it's going to stay and people need to step and put their foot down to help control it.
 
The problem is NOT the guns at all, its the morals that are instilled in people. Some people are just desensitized to death and in todays world you can go buy a video game and shoot people all day long and I think this has somewhat of an effect on why this stuff happens. I do know its not the guns because I work in a gun shop and the guns dont jump off the wall and shoot people.
 
komodo_28 said:
The problem is NOT the guns at all, its the morals that are instilled in people. Some people are just desensitized to death and in todays world you can go buy a video game and shoot people all day long and I think this has somewhat of an effect on why this stuff happens. I do know its not the guns because I work in a gun shop and the guns dont jump off the wall and shoot people.
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Obviously, the mere presents of a gun doesn't make a sane person want to go around killing people.

Violent video games are played world wide. But, with a few rare exceptions these mass killings ONLY happen in the U.S.A. Why?
 
komodo_28 said:
... I do know its not the guns because I work in a gun shop and the guns dont jump off the wall and shoot people.
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I have been shooting for 40+ years. Have been around guns all my life. Have owned at any one time anywhere between one and fiftyish guns. Never has one loaded itself and pulled its own trigger. :shrugs:
 
ANERY100 said:
Obviously, the mere presents of a gun doesn't make a sane person want to go around killing people.

Violent video games are played world wide. But, with a few rare exceptions these mass killings ONLY happen in the U.S.A. Why?
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If you can actually answer that question, then whoever can, needs to write that down and take it to the white house.

That is the issue, it's a question that can not seem to be answered by anyone right now.
 
BloodyBaroness said:
If you can actually answer that question, then whoever can, needs to write that down and take it to the white house.

That is the issue, it's a question that can not seem to be answered by anyone right now.
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No answer comes to my mind, so it's gotta be Bush's fault!! :)
 
It's clearly not media, particularly gaming, as violent crime has been declining while gaming has become the largest entertainment business in the world.

Violent crime tends to follow poverty, though mass killings are an outlier and don't fit the usual markers.

I personally think that we are not putting nearly enough focus on mental health care in North America. There is a massive stigma against people who are mentally unbalanced and so many of them are left to their own devices. There is also an ideal in the US about 'bootstraps', that you should pull yourself up, by yourself. This can be isolating to someone who is getting desperate and doesn't see a way out.

Ultimately, though, mass murders are the exceptions, not the rule, and it'll be impossible to really stop them.
 
komodo_28 said:
in todays world you can go buy a video game and shoot people all day long and I think this has somewhat of an effect on why this stuff happens.
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You know what they say: if people were influenced by video games we'd all be farmers!
 
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