Mind's Eye Re: Newtown Killings

I suspect that this is one of those Michigan issues that James was
referring to as there is legislation before the governor now that
would extend the right to carry laws currently on the books to include
those facilities now excluded like arenas, convention centers,
hospitals, schools etc.......

I completely agree that the problem is not with the guns, and that
agendas are being driven at every opportunity. But I must say, as one
working in a facility that may host 100,000/day, that anyone
discharging a firearm at any time would create crowd control issues
wherein a multitude of folks would die or suffer injury from causes
other than gunshot. The equation that more guns=less death is indeed
questionable. Whether or not we will ever be able to eliminate crazy
is also. Answers don't come easy, and we often spin our wheels
looking for them rather than making any real progress,

On Dec 16, 7:43 am, archytas <nwte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> It's impossible to think about tragedies like Newtown without just
> wishing they didn't happen and sorrow for the victims and bereaved.
> In western Europe we tend to see such events as American and a result
> of lunatic gun control.  A fair representation of this thinking can be
> found in today's Observer - a liberal Sunday broadsheet.http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/16/newtown-shooting-...
>
> The gist is one in ten thousand will die through firearm use in the US
> every year with more deaths than in Syria in its civil war.  Arguments
> on this issue quickly degenerate with some saying the answer is to arm
> more decent people (so they can shoot the creeps and limit damage) or
> the right to bear arms to protect democracy from government.
>
> The real question is how we can stop scum, creeps, nutters and people
> pushed over the edge from using violence against others.  We are all
> frankly wide open to this and the problem of what happens to our
> societies because of measures taken in prevention.  I wonder whether
> answers to this may be well outside gun law and the NRA opposition to
> it - this 'debate' has, after all, gone nowhere forever - much as we
> have not prevented our governments pursuing imperialist wars or race
> to the bottom global economics.

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