Shooting Near El Paso, Texas Mall - Page 2

SeaMaiden · ‎03-10-2010

The issue stems from mentally unstable/ sick people allowed to be loose in society...and the easy access to guns. Guns do not kill....people kill.

sidsmom · ‎11-25-2011

...but removing assault rifles is the IMMEDIATE first step.

Everyone dances around the ‘all’ guns angle but....

I see a very large, important amendment altered in my lifetime.

staciesmom · ‎04-13-2010

@SeaMaiden wrote:
The issue stems from mentally unstable/ sick people allowed to be loose in society...and the easy access to guns. Guns do not kill....people kill.

So true. Now everyone, no matter how dangerous and unstable have "rights" and cannot be forced to get help. Years ago even our local small hospital had a psych ward (2D) now people wander the streets. Just my opinion.

goldensrbest · ‎03-10-2010

I fear it is too late to stop this, it has been happening for over 20 yrs. it just gets worse.

When you lose some one you L~O~V~E, that Memory of them, becomes a TREASURE.

Greeneyedlady21 · ‎01-06-2015

You also have people literally making it easier for mentally ill people with documented history of that illness to possess guns and to obtain them. And blocking any attempt at reforming that. That's a fact.

Not all people who do these shootings are mentally ill. Some do it in the name of "ideology".

"This isn't a Wednesday night, this is New Year's Eve"

golding76 · ‎05-19-2012

Unfortunately, one does not have to be a raving lunatic to be unstable enough to want to shoot others and cause them harm. Very often it is the "one bad moment" in which someone becomes furious enough to want to cause bodily injury -- and has access to firearms -- that spells disaster for others as well as the shooter.

We cannot guarantee anything in this life, of course, but helping to maintain the equilibrium of each and every person who relates to the world is an impossibility. We can try to provide more mental health help and do background checks, but that approach has its limits of success. What isn't impossible is limiting the number and types of firearms available to society at large.

Once again, the U.S. is looked upon with pity by those wise and cautious enough to limit firearm availability.

This is an American tragedy and shame.

Greeneyedlady21 · ‎01-06-2015

An AK47 is a weapon of war. No one needs one other than law enforcement and military.

"This isn't a Wednesday night, this is New Year's Eve"

Sooner · ‎03-10-2010

@cherry wrote:
@JaneMarple I hate to say it, but ,I don't think it will, in the near future. We used to have to worry about the Atomic bomb, now it is getting shot...places you used to feel safe ,like churches ,are no longer safe havens from people with grudges and guns

@cherry @JaneMarple Oh I wouldn't take the bomb off the table just yet. . . a small dirty bomb in a city.

And I wish we would never lower the flag except for death of POA. It needs to fly high always as a symbol that we will come after the people responsible for any acts of violence. And we should do it.