Santa Fe

[Grampaw Willie, SASS No.26996]

statement from control advocates:

2) The problem is guns, not mental illness

 

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The problem that’s unique to the US, instead, is guns — and America’s abundance of them.

 

 

he's wrong of course-- the problem is that we prosecute people for defending themselves

[Charlie T Waite]

Another big part of the problem is how the mainstream media spends so much time on sensationalizing the shooting.  But giving all this Fame to the shooter and to the event it encourages others to do the same. New Jersey had an event that they froze the media out of so there was very little coverage.  Less media coverage would have quite a few of these events because in the shooters mind they wouldn't become famous

[Grampaw Willie, SASS No.26996]

10 hours ago, Charlie T Waite said:

Another big part of the problem is how the mainstream media spends so much time on sensationalizing the shooting.  But giving all this Fame to the shooter and to the event it encourages others to do the same. New Jersey had an event that they froze the media out of so there was very little coverage.  Less media coverage would have quite a few of these events because in the shooters mind they wouldn't become famous

 

there's an excellent article on National Review which discusses this:     (Saturday's Suggested Reading )

 

The Best Explanation for Our Spate of Mass Shootings Is the Least Comforting

 

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But Granovetter thought it was a mistake to focus on the decision-making processes of each rioter in isolation. In his view, a riot was not a collection of individuals, each of whom arrived independently at the decision to break windows. A riot was a social process, in which people did things in reaction to and in combination with those around them. Social processes are driven by our thresholds—which he defined as the number of people who need to be doing some activity before we agree to join them.

 

 

we need to make use of available countermeasures, -- wishful thinking -- doesn't help.  In the case at Santa Fe -- the shooter took his father's guns.  Which should lead us to ask: why were there no trigger locks -- given that a gun safe was not available ?

 

[J.D. Daily]

If the shotgun & revolver were for self defense in the home trigger locks severely reduce the self defense utility of them.  I a home invasion scenario where your self defense firearms are disabled by trigger locks you'd be better off exciting out of the house; because, by the time you retrieve the keys, cartridges/bullets, unlock the firearm & load it the criminal(s) will be on you & your loved ones.   P.S. If the good guy with a gun in Sutherland TX hadn't believed the BS that leaving magazines stored loaded weaken the spring, there may have been fewer victims in the church.