12/4/2015 4:12 PM
This thread is a great example of why we are so bad at dealing with these horrible acts.
So, a guy brings in a middle eastern foreigner on a "marriage" visa, they get married, then at some point start planning to kill a bunch of people. At some point they pledge allegiance to a group I refuse to name, acquire guns, make bombs, horde ammunition, destroy all their digital devices to eliminate their communication and travel history, and then worst of all actually walk into a crowded room and just start blowing away innocent people.
And we have people in our country (and in Canada I guess) who think it only happened because we "celebrate" guns in the US.
I think it is nuts that anyone can ever buy a gun without a background check. We have licenses for our cars, our boats, our dogs, our bicycles in some cities, and I would have no problem with licenses for guns. Sorry, that is the world we live in. But one of you really smart guys, please explain to me how that stops what these lunatics did because once they started planning this think and altering their weapons I'm thinking they no longer cared about the law?
The only way I know we stop them is by monitoring their private lives and we know that is not allowed. If we really want to stop this crap we might have to look hard at what private conversations and communications should be protected. Also, unless HIPA is changed, doctors are not allowed to report patients they feel have potential for carrying out these acts. Bottom line, if we really want it to stop, we have to make a few changes. Meanwhile, the gun control argument will continue, and when it is won, they will just find someone or something new to blame when it happens again. Just like the PP attacker is not at fault, I guess Ted Cruz made him do it.
The fact that this tragedy in CA has been made into a gun control issue is sickening because it proves to me that is it is really only about politics for most of our leaders. Truth and safety are far down the list.