There’s been a lot of talk on the news for the last 14 or so hours about a security failure and a suggestion that a security guard should’ve been outside the building. Personally, I don’t think that would’ve made a difference. I don’t have any answers. Murders have been occurring since Cain and Abel. Easy access to weapons of war has certainly made a difference here in the United States. But if someone is determined to commit a horrid crime like this, it seems they always find a way. The man in Walmart had a knife. It feels like the world has gone mad and it’s heartbreaking.
My answer is as it always is when we discuss this: there must be limitations on the type of guns readily acquirable, that we must have proper training and licensing requirements for those not as readily acquirable, and regular re-evaluations of said licensing.
It's basic preventative measures, things we can readily do while protecting the right to bear arms.
If only psychological evaluations were as precise as mathematics. Crazies and criminals will always find a way. Evidently Tamura was thinking well enough to remember he wanted his brain studied when he shot himself in the chest.
I’m always reminded of the hilarious Jim Jeffries “gun control” skit. “Every now and then…we all get sad….one day you’re happy, the next day you’re sad…and then (you pop yourself under the chin)”.
That could very well explain this guy…except he shot up others before doing himself. And if he did have CTE, it’s really just sadness all around, for him, and his innocent victims.
As Jeffries joked, “ ‘I like guns’….it’s not a great answer but it’s the best you’ve got”. And in the US, that answer + 2A will ALWAYS be sufficient.
And within that reality, I agree there is no legal remedy to the guy who legally obtains firearms then subsequently proceeds to lose his marbles. For Americans, it is what it is.
And in that context, I think your solution is far superior to whatever “thoughts and prayers” the talking heads will be offering up right about now.
I keep hearing he had mental health issues, but haven't seen which authorities may have been aware of this, or what the issues were. Of course, he is not supposed to have guns if he has mental health issues.
Also heard he had someone else purchase a "lower" or some part of the rifle. Perhaps this was an effort to skirt his ownership restrictions, but he apparently still had an active weapons permit.
Many questions remain at this point, but proper identification and management of his mental health issues, including confiscating his guns, may have saved the lives of his 4 victims, as well as his own. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done.
The answer is a revival of spirituality, a return to the worship of and healthy fear and reverence of God.
There’s been a lot of talk on the news for the last 14 or so hours about a security failure and a suggestion that a security guard should’ve been outside the building. Personally, I don’t think that would’ve made a difference. I don’t have any answers. Murders have been occurring since Cain and Abel. Easy access to weapons of war has certainly made a difference here in the United States. But if someone is determined to commit a horrid crime like this, it seems they always find a way. The man in Walmart had a knife. It feels like the world has gone mad and it’s heartbreaking.
A very good take, Steve.
My answer is as it always is when we discuss this: there must be limitations on the type of guns readily acquirable, that we must have proper training and licensing requirements for those not as readily acquirable, and regular re-evaluations of said licensing.
It's basic preventative measures, things we can readily do while protecting the right to bear arms.
Connecticut has all those in its laws. People don’t comply. It’s all about enforcement.
It can only work at the Federal level, and of course only if enforced.
If only psychological evaluations were as precise as mathematics. Crazies and criminals will always find a way. Evidently Tamura was thinking well enough to remember he wanted his brain studied when he shot himself in the chest.
I’m always reminded of the hilarious Jim Jeffries “gun control” skit. “Every now and then…we all get sad….one day you’re happy, the next day you’re sad…and then (you pop yourself under the chin)”.
That could very well explain this guy…except he shot up others before doing himself. And if he did have CTE, it’s really just sadness all around, for him, and his innocent victims.
As Jeffries joked, “ ‘I like guns’….it’s not a great answer but it’s the best you’ve got”. And in the US, that answer + 2A will ALWAYS be sufficient.
And within that reality, I agree there is no legal remedy to the guy who legally obtains firearms then subsequently proceeds to lose his marbles. For Americans, it is what it is.
And in that context, I think your solution is far superior to whatever “thoughts and prayers” the talking heads will be offering up right about now.
I keep hearing he had mental health issues, but haven't seen which authorities may have been aware of this, or what the issues were. Of course, he is not supposed to have guns if he has mental health issues.
Also heard he had someone else purchase a "lower" or some part of the rifle. Perhaps this was an effort to skirt his ownership restrictions, but he apparently still had an active weapons permit.
Many questions remain at this point, but proper identification and management of his mental health issues, including confiscating his guns, may have saved the lives of his 4 victims, as well as his own. Unfortunately, this is easier said than done.
Send in the social workers!