Originally Posted By: David Snyder
Everyone,

I offer my condolences too, but I do not think the answer lies with gun control. A hate filled person can walk into a train station any time he or she wants with a pressure cooker full of nails and blow up a hundred people. Evil people will always find a weapon.

What blows my mind is society--and how people idly stand by and tolerate so much lying, posturing, deceit, bullying, coercion, mockery, narcissism, selfishness, manipulation, racism, and hatred spewing forth from the mouths of the people who are supposed to be leading us. People glorify these idiots and make idols out of them and then wonder where all the hate is coming from. The hate isn't just coming out of ISIS, it is coming out everywhere. The most celebrated television shows glorify adultery, drug use and the mockery of other human beings. Major corporations profit from pornography and child trafficking.

Until the world gets a good scrub down from top to bottom, the hate and evil will continue and no amount of governmental control or gun control will stop it.

Just my two cents.

So you think these times are the worst? Try being an African from 1619 to 1865, kidnapped and shackled in a cargo hold for the journey to a lifetime of slavery. Or how about a Native American during the genocide that was carried out against them? Or maybe a Jew in Hitler's Germany? And that is just a sampling from the past few hundred years!

Since there have been humans there have been humans doing awful things to other humans. There is no magical cleansing gonna happen. But smart people can figure out ways to limit the harm done by the bad guys. We do it all the time. A handful of people died when someone tampered with Tylenol and we changed the way products are sealed all across our country. Would-be terrorist tried to smuggle liquid explosives and now we are severely limited as to what we can carry on a plane.

To say changing rules won't help is bogus. Will such changes prevent everything? Of course not! Just like speed limits don't prevent all speeding. But any thinking person can look at the stats and see that speed limits save many lives and a civilized society has the right and responsibility to therefore institute speed limits!