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Student goes on knife rampage; nobody killed
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2014 Apr 9, 4:27am 18,323 views 48 comments
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Homeboy
2014 Apr 12, 4:41am
does anyone *really* think that guns are the root cause?
I certainly don't think guns are the root cause of violence; they just do a lot more damage than fists or knives or baseball bats.
I can't help but think we'd have more success by improving how we handle mental illness.
That's a start, albeit a very small one. We need to stop pretending mental illness isn't real. I've seen people on this very forum claim that mentally ill people would be fine if they'd just eat right. Denial doesn't solve the problem. At least ACA now says that treatment for mental illness must be covered by health insurance. In the past, it frequently wasn't even covered at all.
If we're going to regulate guns, maybe we should focus on keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill and those who live with them.
There are 11,000 gun murders a year in the US. No offense, but I think it's pretty naive to think "keeping guns out of the hands of the mentally ill", and nothing else, is going to even put a dent in that number.
Or better yet, how about focusing on the group that's doing the murders.
Good point, I'll go along with your call to ban guns for under 24 year olds.
Bigsby
2014 Apr 13, 2:02am
Er, I'm sure SOME houses in SOME PLACES have doubled in price since 2009, but that was not the claim you made, was it?
That is what I meant. So thanks for clarifying my position Bigsby.
That's what you meant? Presumably that is why you said:
Ok, house prices doubled in the past year, Einstein. Is it a conspiracy? Of course it was.
Bigsby
2014 Apr 13, 4:17am
That's what you meant? Presumably that is why you said:
Ok, house prices doubled in the past year, Einstein. Is it a conspiracy? Of course it was.
Time flies fast Bigsby. I just knew that in some places house prices have doubled from the crash and you confirmed it for me, so thanks.
I didn't confirm anything you said. I refuted it. The fact you now want to pretend you said something completely different doesn't change that.
zzyzzx
2014 Apr 15, 12:46am
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-stabbings-4-male-youths-1-female-dead-1.2610465
Calgary stabbings: 4 male youths, 1 female dead
Homeboy
2014 Apr 15, 3:19pm
4 male youths, 1 female dead
That doesn't even make the top 25 as far as death toll is concerned. Virginia Tech shooting was 32 dead.
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http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/04/09/pa-school-stabbings/7498911/
He managed to injure 19 people before being tackled by the assistant principal. Hmmmm...if he had had an assault rifle and a huge amount of ammo, how many deaths would there have been? 40, 50... 100? Doesn't the NRA say it's not the guns that kill people? Guess they got that wrong.