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It certainly is, UniversalPoet...

posted by saul_relative on December 17, 2007 at 1:00 PM | link to this | reply

Highly deplorbale situation.

posted by SeshuWho on December 17, 2007 at 8:46 AM | link to this | reply

Yeah, Wavy, they even have laws against it. Nobody has respect for the law
anymore.  LOL.  But you're right.  And I go back to my position that these people kill themselves only. 

posted by saul_relative on December 16, 2007 at 11:07 AM | link to this | reply

Shootings:
SaulRelative: No matter how messed up you are as a person, no one has the right to kill innocent people. 

posted by WavyDavy on December 16, 2007 at 10:10 AM | link to this | reply

He was involved in church activities, he lived with his brother, his family
was deeply religious.  Sounds like a lot of people, bpitter.  It also looks as if he could have found solace if he'd tried.  He was 24; not a kid.  Something in his home-schooled, extremely religious background made him despise Christians, so he set out to prove how hypocritical they were by asking for charity (to spend the night).  Their refusal justified his beliefs.  He was mentally imbalanced enough to carry a gun along to eliminate part of the source of the hypocrisy.

posted by saul_relative on December 16, 2007 at 7:10 AM | link to this | reply

What country are we in?
From reading his story, it seemed he didn't have anyone to care for him. He was still a kid and should have had someone (a parent or family member) that he could go to for solace. I feel for him. He was a lost soul, it seems.

posted by b2008 on December 15, 2007 at 5:48 PM | link to this | reply

Those shootings are not about people bearing arms responsibly. That
would presuppose that these individuals had the capacity for responsible and reasonable thought to begin with.  They're about maladaptive individuals empowering themselves by destroying others.  The Nebraskan seems to be this type of individual.  In the case of the Colorado nutcase, we may have someone not only delusional but possibly schizophrenic or perhaps suffering from a dissassociative identity disorder (multiple personalities).  Guns were simply the tools they used.  If not a gun, then fire, or knives, or whatever. 

posted by saul_relative on December 11, 2007 at 4:41 PM | link to this | reply

What country...?
We're in the U.S....where anyone...almost...has the right to bear arms....which is of course a very dangerous privilege, because everyone isn't able to bear arms responsibly....I hate violence...most of us do, I think...why?  It's really simple...because most people suffer from a lack of love...which makes this complicated because there is probably nothing harder to get and keep than love...sad, isn't it?  Best regards, Mari

posted by marimari on December 11, 2007 at 8:22 AM | link to this | reply