cgmw wrote:Quick Kick wrote:HixNixKnicksTix wrote:i hate guns. absolutely hate them. but in a situation like this where a guy goes into an elementary school of all places to commit mass murder... even if he didn't have a gun... if guns were never invented... he would have built a bomb or found a way to take out his rage/contempt/psychosis no matter what.
you dont know that. He may not possess the intellectual know-how to build a damn bomb.
I think the point right now is to give the emotional fallout a minute to settle before arguing semantics about the technical and geographical specifics of mass killings.
These are real life children who live very close to home. Give it a minute before chiming in with your particular political or geo-political commentary.
Bomb... couldve had a knife, bow&arrow, hell he didn't have to kill, maybe just throw acid on a bunch of people. my point was that a person like this is going to cause harm with whatever he can.
And i hate this notion that we have to be quiet about how we feel during this. Sure... if you're in front of the families this happened to it's rude. let them grieve. But shouldn't we be having these discussions constantly? Why ever stop having open, honest debate?