Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
Reply #988 –
A really shocking, terrible and sad latest thing from over there but this goes on all the time and runs into hundreds. Innocent people getting murdered of course and terrible but the problem is deep rooted. When a nation goes on about principles, rights and such but allows as many guns as number the population there is something sadly deeply flawed. And of course the thing gets dragged back to that Constitution stuff. Not prepared to move on from a revolution or war in the early 19th century the country did not grow up politically or sensibly. Numbers shot annually in great five figures, massacres every so often and people can get hold of anything from a wee pistol to machine guns. it is all so immature and politically too. Considering the police are armed why the deuce is it needed to fall back on early century times as a permanent right to bear arms. in some States you can strol around publicly with a gun.
Politically and personal immaturity is so obvious except to those living in gun land land. It doesn't matter how many innocents get done in and how many massacres the immature falling back on long history is politically insane. This gun thing should have been done away way back in the 19th century as the country tried to grow up but it hasn't and the whole thing is a damn disgrace. It just does not click with the mentality and each incident is an excuse to buy more guns and so on. You cannot help but feel for the people who get wounded of families who lose loved ones but the country will never grow up on the complete farce about the gun stuff. Sad, sickening and a permanent disgrace.
I may have found some motive, but right not it's only a hypothesis. NBC news reports he had several large gambling transactions, in some cases USD 20,000-30,00 a day. Perhaps he lost the bets (the article indicates it's unknown yet if he did lose), and like the disease animal he is, was intent on suicide but was trying to take as many people with him as he could.