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Is there even a deterrent?
2006-10-02 07:49:25 · 11 answers · asked by gotalife 7 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
*sigh*
I'm going to go out on a limb here and blame this one on insurance companies.
Ok I know you find that odd.
But insurance companies are now pretty much dictating to doctors how they can and can't practice medicine. Who they can and can not treat. What is and what is not covered.
I've seen way too many mental health patients turned away because their issues were not covered by health care. I think that in itself is insane.
I'm so not defending this man's actions. But you can't ignore the fact that somewhere previously his issues went unattended to and he ended up in a hole so dark that he couldn't see straight. The news is now reporting that he has had issues for over a year. We need to reach out to these people and help them.......not turn them away and say, "I'm sorry you aren't covered by our plan." You are then giving them the loaded weapon to take their angst out on creatures that so don't deserve it.
So as odd as it sounds.........a good deterrent to mass murder. Affordable health care.
**steps off her soap box**
2006-10-03 04:02:59 · answer #1 · answered by Marianne not Ginger™ 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The same problem exists in Government schools in South Africa but so far no one has died. Just a matter of time though but the Death penalty is the answer. It may not always be a deterrent but at least it stops the scum being a burden on the tax payer for the rest of their lives.
2006-10-02 16:58:43 · answer #2 · answered by Alf Garnett 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The best deterrent is BETTER MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES. And I'm not joking. The people who commit these crimes are clearly mentally ill and if we as a society did a better job of providing free or low-cost mental health services to the public, you would see far fewer mass murders.
2006-10-02 14:53:24 · answer #3 · answered by David M 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
America is a capitalistic society. The political atmosphere at this time seems to be modestly right of center meaning that we live in a fiscally (as well as morally) conservative society. Fiscal conservatism basically expects everyone to take care of themselves financially. This isn't a horrible idea but when we think "to each his own" in the financial sense we can't help but group in every other sense as well. My point is, it seems that by and large America doesn't take care of its own. We don't live in a society where the village raises the child anymore. None of us feels responsible for what happened but the reality is that we are all responsible for what happened. We let this disturbed individual fall through the crack. Sure, I didn't personally do this, but there are people around me that fall prey to meth, violence, theft or perversion because people like me and everyone else either don't feel that people like him are our responsibility or even those that do find it difficult to help as we have shitty social services available in this country. The basic idea that we need to help them while they're young has never rang truer than in instances like these.
2006-10-02 17:59:33 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A 357 mag is what I use.
2006-10-02 14:55:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They ned to have all schools on lock down all the time
2006-10-02 17:09:05 · answer #6 · answered by Eerin 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A ban on koolaid
2006-10-02 14:55:15 · answer #7 · answered by LORD Z 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. But only if you have leaders willing to use it.
http://www.snipercentral.com/m24.htm
2006-10-02 14:58:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Stay away from the pack.
2006-10-02 14:52:18 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, the death penalty for such acts, if they live.
2006-10-02 14:52:42 · answer #10 · answered by kepjr100 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋