This isn't about the tragedies that have erupted, as they are wont to do over the decades. Obviously, it's all horrible and my prayers, seriously, have gone out to those afflicted.
What I would like to know is, barring we ban guns, gasoline, lighters, twine, fertilizer, trucks, bleach, whatall, what would one have done to STOP the Sandy Hook guy beforehand, or the Colorado guy, or whatever other guy who is nuts who wants people dead BEFORE that person did what he did? Because those people WILL succeed at what they do regardless.
Would you have increased healthcare options and medications, of which many people don't avail themselves, in which case you'll need you some healthcare/med police? Would you implant a chip in your potential nutball candidate that knows, sufficiently before mayhem occurs, when such mayhem is planned and therefore incapacitates that nutball? Do you have some secret source of research that you're hiding from us?
Would you require constant custodial care of those you deem potential nutballs? Not actual, certified nutballs, just potential nutballs, which includes a large percentage of the human race.
What would you DO or have done to stop whichever of these peeps beforehand?
Nothing. Because they hadn't done anything beforehand. So, what makes you think you can control this with restrictions on the rest of semi-normal society?
It's quite amazing. We're doomed to dissolve in stupidity-until the media forgets about it in a week, which is soon.
Friday, December 28, 2012
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The only sensible solution is to form a panel of experts who can then study the possibility of creating an entire agency of psychics who will predict the next tragedy BEFORE it happens. Then the police can just scoop the guy up and he can "disappear." Oh...wait...we already have that. NDAA.
ReplyDeleteI had this discussion with my mother on Christmas. What fun...She's just scared because of the 24/7 coverage these things get. She thinks the world is scarier now than it used to be. I keep trying to tell her it isn't any different - just better publicized. She thinks I'm completely wrong and that people are more savage than they used to be.
ReplyDeletePeople are the same. Deep inside humanity always was and always will be nasty, brutal and petty. Nutters will usually succeed in their plans for the same reason nothing is able to be made idiot proof. Rational minds simply cannot plan for every eventuality in an irrational mind.
Oh, if only it was just media...politicians will not forget, especially the ones in charge now - and they will try to rum their stupid ideas through objections into law.
ReplyDeleteKim, I want to thank you for a whole year of excellent blogging - it supported and entertained me, and generally was a source of delight.
Wishing you a better new year - it has a room for improvement, don't you think?
Right, right and right to all y'all!
ReplyDeleteAnd a pre-happy new year. To more ranting, venting, laughing, commiserating and maybe no tumbling down whatever cliff looms/looms not.