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Originally Posted by suesiegel
Some YOU,suggest teachers should be armed.
I DON'T KNOW but were it to be implemented. What would that teach the kids. Some people posting on this thread would object to it. Even if it was put into effect, would a teacher be prepared to pull the trigger or would they assume if they pull out a gun the perpetrator would after shooting some people, some kids, simply give up.
For that matter, in what just happened. Does anyone believe the shooter would not have grabbed a kid and used him as a shield?.
As stated, a simple solution does not exist.
I expect the defense will argue the shooter is insane. He is 19. We will need to keep him in prison for as long as 80 years at a current cost of ????? 100,000 a year.
Can we, can I, accept that a sane person is capable of this unfathomable act?
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YES!
The insanity defense is nothing more....NOTHING MORE....than a legal tactic that triggers certain attitudes within the "letter of the law".
A killer like the current school shooter won't know he is "insane" until he meets a defending attorney.
The attorney's task is to create doubt using the letter of the law.
Using the letter of the law means using it, abusing it or hiding behind it....which ever gets the verdict being sought for their client.
Does not mean or imply or guarantee truth...just create doubt. With doubt comes no conviction!!!!