Unfortunately, it can't be totally prevented. Its impossible. But I think we can take steps to reduce the chances of it happening. I see and know of too many schools, for example that allow anyone to just walk right in. That needs to change. I too like the idea of having armed discreet security in every school. You could never walk right into Fort Knox or a prison, why can you walk right into a school? Especially after what has happened in schools over the past decade.
Sadly, a bad apple is a bad apple IMO. That whole "free will" and "evil"thing means we can influence somebody with every good intent on earth and they can STILL go out and do evil. I am in no way saying guidence, counseling, mentors, and general well doing is pointless...im just stating that sometimes, it doesnt matter. Sent from my SCH-I510 using Tapatalk 2
Question, and John Galt these are just questions so keep your pants on. Should a person be able to own any gun if they are in custody of a mentally ill person? Should a parent be able to own a gun if their under 18 child breaks the law via violent crime?
I don't think we can totally prevent it. If someone is Hell-bent on killing, they will do so, regardless of the availability of guns. Timothy McVeigh used a bomb made of fertizier and fuel oil. Others have used knives, others poison gas. While we can't prevent it, we can take steps to make it harder to perpetrate, and limit the death toll when a shooter does turn up. Some of the common elements of the recent shootings (VA Tech, Aurora Theater, CT Grade School) have been 1) mentally unstable perps, and 2) gun free zones. The first step should be to ban gun-free zones. I am not saying that all teachers should carry a gun, and I certainly would not make it a condition of employment, but if a teacher, administrator, staff, etc. has a valid CCW permit, they should be allowed to carry at work. Would that have stopped the shooter in CT? Who knows? Depends on how soon he encountered an armed person. It is certainly reasonable to assume, given approximately a 4% rate of CCW permits, that out of 100 school staff (guessing at the number), 3-4 of them would have been armed. He might have killed some, but there would have been a chance to stop him before he killed as many as he did. The broader question is the issue of mental illness, medicating persons affected by mental illness, "privacy" issues, and the almost criminal lack of an effective Involuntary Civil Committment process. My wife works at a special school for kids with behavior problems, most caused by mental illness, so maybe I notice these aspects more than someone who doesn't have this exposure. It seems that after each mass shooting, information comes out about warning signs that were ignored, simply not passed on, or someone who "fell through the cracks" of the system. Suffice it to say, the system needs to change. There needs to be a mechanism for reporting folks who exhibit signs of mental instability, and investigating/following up on the reports. If someone is found to be a threat, there needs to be a process to force them to get treatment, which must be made available. If they do not get treatment, they should be involuntarily committed. Yes, this will cost money, but this is becoming a safety issue for all of us. I have some ideas for where to get the funding, that will probably equally p!$$ off each political extreme, but I think this is enough for one post.
First off if your hinting at some sort of "spoonin," I don't swing that way! I don't think either of these could be answered truthfully with out a working knowledge of those involved. But I see no reason why a responsible adult should be denied the ability to hunt because of a child's disability, proper storage in the home or at a safe house could have prevented this last tragedy. That being said, if said person fails to take proper precautions and fails to contain that firearm they should in fact be both criminally and civilly responsible for the resulting acts committed with those weapons.
Now that is some heat Gurdian Plan http://www.cnn.com/video/?hpt=hp_c2#/video/us/2012/12/18/dnt-tx-teachers-carrying-guns.kauz
I don't know what to say about this http://www.post-gazette.com/stories...-in-hundreds-of-its-stores-nationwide-666849/
Perhaps, in this situation it would have saved those babies. He might not have acted the way he did if he didn't have those resources. But I say again "But" he was mentally IL, and without having access to those guns he might not have killed those babies. We'll never know and that's the sad truth. I'm not sure what will come out of this ordeal, but I pray it stop's.
There is no quick and easy cure for this problem. Until people take responsibility for their weapons and their families; and sicko's are not allowed access to them, mass murders by gunfire will continue. Even then sicko's will find other means to commit their acts through poisonous gas, Tim McVeigh bombs, etc.
