I'm not even going to try to understand why. All I know is that my cousin went to a Movie, and got shot 3 times. She's still in the hospital, missing fingers on one hand now, and her only 24 years old. Totally changed for the rest of her life, because of one man's insane act of random violence. Second time I've ever been touched by something like this. Usually it's all distant, just read about it in the news and move on. Now it's directly affected a loved one again. The first time was a friend who was randomly shot in a KMart. Died right there from a head wound. Guy just charged in and opened fire. One dead, one injured, apparently he was a terrible shot. But it was still a close friend that died, and it was terribly tragic. Left his young daughter without a dad and his parents were completely devastated.
I find that it doesn't change my views on this stuff. You can't legislate this away. You can't stop people who are determined to do something like this before it happens. You are either a law abiding citizen or you aren't. They will get their supplies elsewhere if they can't be had on the internet or local gun store. They will choose another target if security is beefed up at the original intended site. With random acts like this, it really is random.
The fear the media induces isn't necessary. The groups trying to throw blame on guns, the school, the parents.... no one is accountable for this besides the person that did it. We can all go out and buy a weapon today. Will we all go on a rampage with it? No, we won't. The school didn't notice anything leading up to this. Are they supposed to when a student is quiet and unsocial? There are a lot of shy types, loners, people who do their own thing. They're not all killers. Parents... plenty of kids come out of terrible home situations. Not sure if this guy did or not. But you can't blame parenting skills for mental illness. This guy was sick, and no law can change that.
There is no one to blame for this. You don't have to understand why he did it. You can't stop it from happening again with new laws. I've grown more watchful. Not paranoid so much as taking notes of exits, people, and my surroundings. I work in a retail store. Who knows if someone will be ticked off enough to do something stupid. You don't know what will trigger it in a person like that. At another job we had to have a trucker escorted away by police because he was threatening with a gun about getting his trailer unloaded. Really? In that big of a hurry? Well now you're detained,enjoy. He could have barged in and committed a more serious crime.
We just had a big shooting at a bar in this town. Lot's of shots fired. Sort of expected at that location. So don't go to places like that. But a regular movie theater? That's not supposed to happen. But it did happen, and that's that. Who knows where it will happen next time. It certainly isn't the last time someone who's sick is going to go on some rampage. Ft Hood, that college shooting, the high schools, work places, kmart, ect. The list is getting long. Add a movie theater to it.
I find that it doesn't change my views on this stuff. You can't legislate this away. You can't stop people who are determined to do something like this before it happens. You are either a law abiding citizen or you aren't. They will get their supplies elsewhere if they can't be had on the internet or local gun store. They will choose another target if security is beefed up at the original intended site. With random acts like this, it really is random.
The fear the media induces isn't necessary. The groups trying to throw blame on guns, the school, the parents.... no one is accountable for this besides the person that did it. We can all go out and buy a weapon today. Will we all go on a rampage with it? No, we won't. The school didn't notice anything leading up to this. Are they supposed to when a student is quiet and unsocial? There are a lot of shy types, loners, people who do their own thing. They're not all killers. Parents... plenty of kids come out of terrible home situations. Not sure if this guy did or not. But you can't blame parenting skills for mental illness. This guy was sick, and no law can change that.
There is no one to blame for this. You don't have to understand why he did it. You can't stop it from happening again with new laws. I've grown more watchful. Not paranoid so much as taking notes of exits, people, and my surroundings. I work in a retail store. Who knows if someone will be ticked off enough to do something stupid. You don't know what will trigger it in a person like that. At another job we had to have a trucker escorted away by police because he was threatening with a gun about getting his trailer unloaded. Really? In that big of a hurry? Well now you're detained,enjoy. He could have barged in and committed a more serious crime.
We just had a big shooting at a bar in this town. Lot's of shots fired. Sort of expected at that location. So don't go to places like that. But a regular movie theater? That's not supposed to happen. But it did happen, and that's that. Who knows where it will happen next time. It certainly isn't the last time someone who's sick is going to go on some rampage. Ft Hood, that college shooting, the high schools, work places, kmart, ect. The list is getting long. Add a movie theater to it.
