Shooting at Texas church

My guess, and this is only a guess, is that it's so easy. Also I honestly believe that 9/11 upped the ante for murderous nutjobs. You can't just shoot up your old office and make the news. Got to think big.

 

Connecticut senator who was the House rep for Newtown in 2012

 

Media coverage absolutely plays a part in it, even if we don't want to hear it. Somewhere out there right now, some fucker is having the idea put in his head.

 

The next one could be a thousand dead.

 

One of my softball players bagged her 3rd deer in 4 years. She's 13. She didn't use an AK, just a regular ol' hunting gun.

 

A thought about mental illness: America has no good solution for this, either. Not that asylums ever were, but, since they've largely been shut down, Families are left to deal the mentally ill. To navigate it the best way they can.

Mental illness has a major stigma, which not only prevents diagnosis - people don't want to have mental problems - but ends up being costly to treat.

As bad as you might think the gun issue is...mental illness is even more complex.

Which is why the supply side has to be addressed . Guns.

 

No.

 

Agreed. Great Britain has seen a recent spate of knife and acid attacks (not so called Islamic terrorism, what Americans think of as random violence). They are horrible crimes. But the body counts can't be compared.

 

Speaks kinda well of churches, don’t you think?

 

Nay.

 

Definitely had some scary moments growing up in a pastor's home. I remember a schizophrenic man who showed up at the house a few times looking for exorcisms.

When I was maybe 13, we were in a church where the parsonage was physically a wing of the church. Our laundry room door opened into the sanctuary. There was a night where I was watching my younger sister while the parents were out to dinner. I heard some weird noises through that door, sounded like a woman wailing. I didn't quite know what to do, so I locked the door, left a message on my dad's phone and grabbed a frying pan. Found out later that it was a crazy woman who was loosely affiliated with the church who had broken in to pray. She had a knife on her when police found her.