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Originally Posted by Rekna
First off I do want to help prevent this from happening again in the future but I think we should give the victims and families honor and respect before we start issuing talking points.
With that been said there isn't much we can do to stop a suicidal maniac. We can increase security, we can have random spot checks, we can place snipers on buildings, and make society very Orwelian but it won't stop a suicidal maniac.
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Of course not. We know that won't work, just like we know attacking Iraq won't stop the terrorists. I would advocate that our society do something smart for once. Let's figure out WHY things like this happen. Hasn't anyone noticed that people are going completely nuts at a much higher rate than they used to? More school shootings, more incidents of "road rage" which didn't even have a name 15 years ago, more incidents of people suddenly going nuts and killing their entire family. . . Why?
Is it chemical? Maybe - the average person today has over 600% more lead in their system than the average person in 1920 - and lead is a neurotoxin. And, lead is only one of the many chemicals we are now subjected to that we did not evolve to be subjected to. Perhaps one or more of those chemicals is making people literally crazy.
Maybe its societal pressures. We're requiring more work more quickly out of fewer people than ever before, and we're paying them worse than ever before to do it. That puts people under an awful lot of stress - are people just reaching the breaking point?
Maybe it's something else. I don't know, but I think we had best find out before the problem gets any worse. We've already seen how problem solving by "increasing security" works - - none of us feels any safer from the "terrists" than we did the day after the WTC attack.
Wouldn't it be nicer to figure out what's happening to these people, so that we can stop it from happening and therefore not have to worry about how to lock down an entire college campus?