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And now everyone feels good. Yay!
Next time some lunatic decides to shoot up a group of people he'll have to use a shotgun instead. Then they'll ban shotguns. Then next time someone will plow a truck through a group of people and they'll have to ban trucks. Then someone will drown a group of people in a bath tub and they'll have to ban water. And the next time...
No one has even attempted to solve the underlying problem nor even suggested what the underlying problem is.
In fairness....that guy did kill a lot of people. It's not likely that so many would have died if he used a shotgun, or truck, and I don't think drowning them all in a bathtub is a realistic possibility.
But why did he do it? We can't say that it was simply hate.
There are a lot of people who hate a lot of other people for whatever reason or another but they don't pick up a gun and start shooting. Just as there are a lot of people who own guns but don't point them at other people and pull the trigger. I am certain that there are also a lot of people who hate other people and who also own guns, but their mix of hate and guns doesn't cause them to kill.
Things like this often remind me of the movie Apollo 13. They had a crisis and the only way they could solve it was to lock some people in a room until they found a solution to it. It seems that today we have a crisis and no one is willing to be locked in the room.
I wonder how they concluded this was a realistic solution, considering this was a well-planned attack. Anders Brevik obtained his weapons on the black market and smuggled them into the country, for instance, circumventing Norway's gun laws.
I don't think there's any illusion that it will stop such events, just severely limit the occurrence.
Things like this often remind me of the movie Apollo 13. They had a crisis and the only way they could solve it was to lock some people in a room until they found a solution to it. It seems that today we have a crisis and no one is willing to be locked in the room.
I wonder how they concluded this was a realistic solution, considering this was a well-planned attack. Anders Brevik obtained his weapons on the black market and smuggled them into the country, for instance, circumventing Norway's gun laws.
So much for ruling a big country like frying a small fish, then.
There is hardly any one solution. Reasonable gun control, regulating hate speech vs freedom of opinion, trying to prevent alienation, people having hope for their future and the like.
What do you propose?
Until we can effectively understand the driving psychological forces compelling people to undertake such acts, we can at least limit access to weapons that allow mass murder to be easy.
At least they're doing something.
I don't see "regulating hate speech" as a solution at all. I don't see how throwing people in jail for expressing an opinion will actually prevent people from having that opinion. What's worse is I don't see how it's going to change anything for those people once they leave jail.
But why did he do it? We can't say that it was simply hate. There are a lot of people who hate a lot of other people for whatever reason or another but they don't pick up a gun and start shooting. Just as there are a lot of people who own guns but don't point them at other people and pull the trigger. I am certain that there are also a lot of people who hate other people and who also own guns, but their mix of hate and guns doesn't cause them to kill.
Things like this often remind me of the movie Apollo 13. They had a crisis and the only way they could solve it was to lock some people in a room until they found a solution to it. It seems that today we have a crisis and no one is willing to be locked in the room.
I wonder how many New Zealanders now possess illegal weapons that they will not relinquish. This creates a whole new class of criminals.
So what is your solution to the problem?