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There must be some way to deal with this kind of thing

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Yeah, ban guns completely (except for police officers).

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Yeah, ban guns completely

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Originally posted by Gir Draxon:
And I hate to bring politics into tragedy, but I have to say that I am not surprised that the guns being registered obviously did not help the situation.

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In a case like this, if there hadn't been guns he would have used something else.

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and would have probably fit the right's definition of a "law-abiding gun owner" -- until
decided not to be.

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Nah, baseball bats, knives. A lot of things kill.

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But like someone else mentioned above, not as efficiently, not as instantly.

At least, had he chosen a knife or a bat, there would have been more struggle, and a slightly greater chance that the victims could have escaped, fought back, or only been injured, rather than killed.

Maybe. But I'd rather take that chance, I think.

I went through a bad breakup and I was pretty angry, as is human nature (please don't try to suggest for one second that it's only men who are angry, hurt and betrayed when a love goes wrong). But I knew I didn't want to be like that, so I went to a counsellor. I know that I would never hurt anyone over a relationship, but let's face it you can get really down when this happens. I can honestly say talking to an objective wise voice really defused a lot of bad feelings and dramatically quickened the healing process; I could get on with my life and realize there is just as much happiness, joy and potential then as there ever was or would be.

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Originally posted by clersal:
Yeah, another, 'if I can't have you no one else will either'.

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A person very close to me once confided that he'd had thoughts about killing his children and then himself. He said that his thought at the time was that he could not bear to leave them alone in a world filled with such bleak horror and despair(that was how he saw the world when he was suicidally depressed). Luckily he wasn't so far gone at the time that couldn't see how warped his perceptions were.

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How do you identify the criminals before they become criminals?

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We could certainly start with the people who already are criminals (at least those with any kind of assualt record), and if we really wanted to we could have a zero tolerance policy for use of a weapon in a crime, or carrying a weapon without a permit. If you pull someone over with a handgun in their glove compartment, there's your criminal.

Note that we also have no way of knowing who might or might not drive drunk, but there's not a whole lot of talk of banning cars outright. We also have the technology to make cars that are interconnected to a breathalyzer, and yet these aren't standard issue on a vehicle. We could, but we won't.

The point is that we just spent 2 billion dollars tracking legal gun owners who are not any MORE likely to become a killer than YOU are and we harrass the ones who HAVEN'T done anything wrong - instead of worrying about actual criminals and dealing with people BEFORE they become murderers.

Did the registry help this woman?!? - Do you feel better now that she's dead at the hands of a man with a LICENSED gun?

People drink and drive and kill people that way, but yet you don't think that every car owner is a killer. Instead of blaming the ones who HAVEN'T been drinking and driving (althouth they COULD - get fired from work and go drown your sorrows.. etc) we launch programs to catch and punish the drunk drivers! And lo and behold, it goes down.