numbness, blindness, and revenue streams

Could we simply ban the "big clips"?
The -- drums, magazines, clips, whatever they sell, which provide
so.  many.  bullets (or -- "rounds", I've learned...).
So many.

Like the Battle of Normandy, only --
at school,
and
with the "other side" -- unarmed.

The war-zone fire-power
which is supplied by these items
allows a disturbed person to make a Big Splash in media and "Go Out In A Blaze Of Glory" -- what they imagine is power-and-glory.

Without access to big clips, the disturbed person might kill one person, or two people, or himself, which would be bad enough, but -- but -- without the inducement of imagined fame and the example of other mass shooters to "inspire" him, maybe -- it's possible that he might not kill anyone at all.

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[Post-mass-shooting Comments, from individuals, on internet]:

--Show Me from Missouri wrote
"Gun control must be improved to prevent this.  Also, however, events such as this should not be publicized.  It leads weak-minded people to do similar violent acts."

--NYC
I do not want my child to die because gun nuts don't want any regulation on how many guns, how much ammunition anybody can buy -- with only a 1-day waiting period.  Every attempt to regulate guns has been shouted down by the NRA and their followers.  More gun violence to come.

--Cedarburg, Wisconsin
The frequency of mass homicides -- as well as individual homicides -- is a result of societal breakdown....The fact is that American society is sick.  The division within the nation, the greed among securities dealers and bankers, fractured families, and the inability to compromise on individual, community, state and national issues = a short list of the symptoms.

Hope is not a strategy, but hope is all America has left.

--Richard  NYC
Oh dear.  Another school, another massacre....and trot out all the other usual platitudes.

What is appalling is the utter corruption of the political process.  Most people are for rational gun regulation, most people hate health insurance companies, most people are abused by credit card companies.  But it doesn't matter, because Congress answers to the lobbyists and not us the people.

--Portland, Oregon
We don't just need proper gun control or proper mental health care, we need a new peace movement that begins at home, is the shared responsibility of us all, and extends through every aspect of our private and public lives.

--New Hampshire
All banning guns will do is provide the illusion that we are doing something when we are in fact avoiding the issues....Why are we surprised that a nihilist society produces sociopaths.

--Neal   California
Mental health cannot be legislated, or enforced by the criminal justice system.  An open, honest, well-informed national discussion about stress and cultural attitudes towards violence is long overdue.  And the reason it hasn't happened is clearly evident in the history of these shooting incidents: 

special interest money

in our government

and media

hijacks the discussion to protect its revenue stream.


--somewhere
The handguns used in this massacre were manufactured by companies based in countries where their murderous products cannot legally be sold to private citizens.

--Seattle
It's easy to blame the politicians for their cowardice and cowardice it certainly is.  But who made them cowards?  Who made it so that, politically, it's more perilous to support gun control than either stay mute or actively support the NRA?

Look in the mirror for the answer.

--New Jersey
The answer is not in the mirror.  It is in the bank.  We need publicly funded elections that take the NRA's biggest weapon -- the financial contributons to candidates -- out of the picture.  It's blood money.

--Pam in San Francisco
I am unmoved by politicians' tears -- even the president's -- until they are willing to represent the great majority of Americans who want sensible gun laws, rather than the zealots of the NRA and their extremist backers.

--Maysville, Georgia
We need to look at our society and at why people do things like this.  Have we lost a feeling for the most basic things in life?  The chase for money makes us blind....

--What medications was he taking?  The people who do these shootings are always on antidepressants or something, if you look those drugs up suicide and aggressive behavior and hallucinations and worse depression or paranoia are side effects and even the companies that make them admit that they don't know what the drugs do to people, to their brains and that they don't even know if they work or not!

everybody blames these awful things on weak gun laws but this never happened until recently and we've had guns a lot longer but not these drugs, the more people take them, the more killings we have

--There is so much violence in movies, video games and tv, perhaps mentally unbalanced young people can't differentiate between what is real and what is make believe.  Also, seeing violence so often numbs all of us.

--Tell us what medications he was taking.  I can guarantee the pharmaceutical industry played a role in this....Guns have been around for centuries but only in the last few decades have we seen so many atrocious acts committed against the innocents.  It's our disgusting culture (or lack of) combined with drugs (mostly prescription) that is causing these mindless acts of violence.

--Yes, there are mentally ill people among us, and when guns are easily available, it results in mass shootings.  Guns offer easy, quick method for violence.

--Actually, it's...violent inducing, psychotic, brain chemistry altering drugs that are doing the damage, and turning peoples brains into murderers.  Every one of the mass shooters in the past 20 odd yrs. have been on big pharma drugs.  Wake up ya'll.

--Parents need to be vigilant and help innoculate and shield their kids from the mental pollution society generates for the sake of profit.  I may join the cry for gun control, but we also need to speak out against violent media.  Both are involved.

--pharmas will not look there - too much money -- billions

--Behind every human tragedy and misfortune is someone who has used the circumstance to make money.  Dan Quayle and his partners at Cerebrus have blood on their hands for all the money they made buying up companies like Bushmaster that make assault and semi automatic weapons after his colleagues let the assault weapons ban lapse in 2004.  Kinda like the connection of Romney and Delphi after getting auto bailout money and then shipping the jobs overseas with his partners.  The 1% sure know how to profit off other people's misery.
[Auto Bail-out Money...Profit? or Corporate Welfare?]

--Bill Moyers
The NRA is the enabler of death -- paranoid, delusional, and as venomous as a scorpion.  With the weak-kneed acquiescence of our politicians, the National Rifle Association has turned the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution into a cruel hoax, a cruel and deadly hoax.

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