Wangchung said:
redfish961 said:
Wangchung said:
redfish961 said:
To me, the big question is how do you mitigate these instances and can it realistically be done?
While I think gun regulation could be better, I don't see a ban on particular weapons being of much use. Better regulations would be preferred, in my opinion, rather than any ineffective ban.
Criminals are going to be criminals and they will find a way to circumvent any laws, which they don't care about anyways.
All that being said, as I have stated before, I think the answer is hardening the target. Perhaps figure out ways to enable defense of a school that would discourage an individual from selecting that target.
That's a hard nut to crack because costs and ability may be limited and probably will.
For every reason I can think of a solution, I can think of 2 that would decrease quality of life or take away freedoms.
Do we just consider this type of incident collateral damage or is there something that can truly be done about it?
I wish I could think of the answer, but I'm afraid heartbreak may just be part of the program.
I don't accept that notion.
An honest media would have prevented this specific attack. This nut was enraged by all the false claims of anti-trans bills and took it out on Christian children.
Yeah, while an honest media would help, I'm not sure this is what caused it.
Reality is, media always has a slant and that's been forever.
I think the operative phrase in your comment is "this nut".
That's truly what you are dealing with and the rest doesn't matter much.
How do you mitigate "the nut"?
That's the root problem.
The only way I can see is to harden the target and that has several disadvantages in itself.
In most cases Id agree with you but this trans person had a manifesto. The vast majority of media lie and claim "don't say gay" bills exist and that bills restricting children from live adult themed performances, that restrict minors from maiming themselves with hormones and surgery, is really anti trans hatred. It's a straight up lie meant to enrage leftists and it did exactly that, just like all the rhetoric from Obama helped stoke instant protests in America any time a black criminal got hurt or killed while being a criminal.
"Self defense laws are racist! He had his hands up! All cops are *******s! ICE is like the Nazis!" (Followed up by 568 violent blm riots and ICE facilities being firebombed)
"Being against abortion means you hate women!"(Assassination attempt on Justice Kavanaugh followed by illegal protests outside justices homes)
"Being against taking children to watch grown men in women's lingerie dancing erotically means you hate trans people!"
(Followed up by multiple trans/ alphabet cult shootings)
The dots are there to connect.
Okay, I appreciate the reply and understand.
At the end of the day, we have to find a solution for this particular problem in order to protect innocent kids.
In my opinion, there will always be some sort of racism, tribalism, or whatever you want to call it.
As humans, we are wired this way, but we don't have to follow it in most instances.
Most of us don't anymore, but it seems like it's the small percentage that drives the bus anymore and that's where we get divided.
The small percentage is loud and vocal and the rest of us just watch and say look at this crazy **** without doing much but observing.
As the country gets more populated, there will be more crazy observed and it's almost inevitable.
We need to harden the targets and I don't see many other options to help mitigate the problem.
You will never cure the problem, but you can mitigate it.