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Old 08-27-2018, 02:14 PM   #946
Chief Rum
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Originally Posted by PilotMan View Post
Another way to minimize the entire situation. I said it about the Vegas shooter, who was not mentally ill, who they can not figure out why, he did what he did. There was literally no exterior motivation. If there had been mental illness, it would have come out by now. Simply put, just because, we cannot rationalize why is gods name anyone would go to the length or do those acts, doesn't mean it's mental illness. It sweeps it under the bed, "ah well, if it hadn't been for that mental illness, of course, there's nothing we could do, because he was sick, so the rest of us, who are healthy, just have to shake our heads and wonder why he failed to get the help that he so badly needed."


It's clearly become a legitimate artifact of the 21st Century culture in the USA. It's a part of our society. The ease at which people can be murdered with guns in this country. It's part of a much bigger, deeper, philosophical discussion that nobody can have, because it's far too late to actually fix within any of our generations. Only people who are willing to put the work in, to try and fix it for the next 4-5 generations downline, will have any chance to reverse the societal impact of where we are now regarding guns and crime in America. Good luck on someone taking the reins on that one.

So you decry that we might determine it to be mental illness and unfixable and move on, but then you suggest the real problem is so big, no one will undertake to solve it, so we move on?

Potato, potAto?
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