Alan":11g7q5z6 said:
When the 2nd amendment was written no such thing as semi automatic let alone assault rifles.
The term "assault rifle" is a term created by anti gun liberals and should never be used by pro gun citizens. The color of a gun doesn't make it any more dangerous. By even using that termn we're conceding that some guns are in fact more dangerous, opening the window for more ineffective regulations.
Personally, I don't even think this latest one was necessarily a mental illness issue. What I think we're seeing now is a generation of kids deprived at home and being "raised" on the internet with a bunch of similarly deprived kids. They understand right and wrong, but aren't mature enough to fully appreciate life and death. They get a chip on their shoulder for whatever reason, and they don't know how to deal with it like a normal person. They want attention, and this is how they get it. I personally think something needs to be done regarding the internet. The kid told everyone on some website what he planned to do, and some of the little pu^&$%s on there even encouraged him and told him how to kill more people. From what I could tell, the entire website revolved around a bunch of dysfunctional kids talking about things like this. It's time for some sort of division to monitor web activity, and there should be a way on every site for concerned people to report certain users. Not to some moderator that doesn't have time or desire to deal with it, but to some division of law enforcement who will
track the user down, and take them into custody. No questions, no whining about "human rights". Take them and lock them up for even suggesting they're going to hurt someone. Obviously, this would take a large effort from the government, and they'd much rather push their political agenda and make it a gun issue.