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Originally Posted by graciegirl
I don't think any of us reading this have become immune to violence. WHAT to do about it? We cannot lock up all mentally ill people. If we start removing guns from people who own them, we would get those from people with ethics. Only.
I think assault rifles should not be sold anymore. There is NO WAY we can remove them from the hands of people who have them. As for mental illness? That is the hardest problem to solve, not only who are mentally ill, and how sick are they, but who are a potential threat and who are not. I find this man Nicholas Cruz had a lot of things unusual happen to him. He was put up for adoption by his birth mother and he and his biological brother were adopted by Roger and Lynda Cruz. They had just moved to Florida and never had children. Roger Cruz died when Nicholas was six and Lynda died just this past November from Pneumonia at 68. Nicholas had been identified with an Autism Spectrum disorder as a young child. In November Nicholas went to live with friends of his family and they were aware he had an assault weapon.
He will be held accountable by the law and he should be, in my opinion.. I wonder what could have been done to avert this disaster? What could we do differently? I think the answer lies in how and who are raising little humans and how they are doing it. People often turn over their children to people who they would not give their car keys to. Children are taught right and wrong when they are under the age of five, or they absorb it from the people who are with them. Parents are assuming the role of indulging grandparents because they are not with their children as much as our generation was.
But that is MY opinion and it is only one factor in this worrisome, heartbreaking mess.
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Under our legal system, you cannot be arrested because someone thinks you might commit a crime. In this case the perpetrator was 18. Some of you seem to think we should arrest all 18 year olds. In reality, if I recall most violent crime is done by people under 25-an easy solution. YES, it does get ridiculous.
As to stated ASSAULT RIFLES. Sadly, this term is MISUSED by people lacking in knowledge. It is not the fault of the people but the fault of the press OK THE LIBERAL PRESS with an anti-gun bias. PLEASE LOOK IT UP. DO NOT TAKE MY WORD. An assault rifle, a word a phrase that many will parrot, is by definition an automatic weapon. You pull the trigger and it keeps shooting. IT IS ILLEGAL TO OWN ONE AND HAS BEEN SINCE ABOUT 1920.
We all, including me, have after the event from the safety of our homes have all kinds of suggestions. TRUTH is that it is after the fact in a state of safety. LIFE IS A RISK.
The good news is that the crime rate is actually down since the 1920's. The crime rate in the US is actually going down. Laughing a bit but since young people commit most violet crime, what we know is that our population is aging.