Random Politics & Religion #00

Yay! Still talking about Benghazi! \o/

Well, when the knee-jerk reaction is MOAR GUN CONTROL when, as was pointed out, the bodies are still warm is less than tactful. Also, doesn't Oregon already have decently tough gun laws on the books? They just tightened them a few weeks go even.

No amount of laws are going to stop some random psychopath from deciding that he wants to kill a bunch of people. If he can't get guns legally, he can just steal them and/or find a dealer who will sell one illegally. I would focus more on the Syrian conflict instead of repeating ad nauseum how much the system needs to change... and then not do anything about it. We often run into problems when there is a problem that can't be solved but we try to fix it anyway for the sake of feel-goods.

ROSEBURG, OR—In the hours following a violent rampage in southwestern Oregon in which a lone attacker killed 10 individuals and seriously injured seven others, citizens living in the only country where this kind of mass killing routinely occurs reportedly concluded Thursday that there was no way to prevent the massacre from taking place. “This was a terrible tragedy, but sometimes these things just happen and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop them,” said Ohio resident Lindsay Bennett, echoing sentiments expressed by tens of millions of individuals who reside in a nation where over half of the world’s deadliest mass shootings have occurred in the past 50 years and whose citizens are 20 times more likely to die of gun violence than those of other developed nations. “It’s a shame, but what can we do? There really wasn’t anything that was going to keep this guy from snapping and killing a lot of people if that’s what he really wanted.” At press time, residents of the only economically advanced nation in the world where roughly two mass shootings have occurred every month for the past six years were referring to themselves and their situation as “helpless.”

The Internet happened. All of a sudden thousands of bullies could get at you, with no way to take them aside and talk to them or get closure like you described.

So people slowly bottled up their ***and processed it unhealthily until they erupt.

You and I didn't have to worry about worldwide death threats at age 6-9 just for being as stupid as everyone is at that age.

We don't need a solution. Crazies just gonna crazy ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

You can't expect everyone that recognizes a problem to have a solution for it.

I just skimmed the article again, I don't see where it claims to have the solution like you mention.

Yay! Still talking about Benghazi! \o/

That's the point, neither of them are going to have guns.

when a country has rules like this, people don't break into homes with guns.