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_AdjI_ posted...

mooreandrew58 posted...

think his point is, its more of a murder than a school shooting. school shooting gives the implication of mass murder.

Which is a fairly silly implication because school shootings are still really bad even when they don't have a sizable body count.

mooreandrew58 posted...

also there was a story of a guy going into a school with a compound bow and shooting a dude in the head, should we restrict access to bows as well? hell they are easy enough to make if you know what the hell you are doing.

It should be more restricted than access to mental health services, at least. Which is to say mental health services need to be vastly improved, since as you pointed out, completely restricting access to weaponry is pretty much impossible.

part of the problem is people who are evaluated with mental problems, the doctors don't push the paper work that would infact keep them from getting guns, we do have laws an procedures in place to prevent shit like this, but not enough are doing their job to ensure it works. also loopholes like I knew a felon who had access to guns, they where his wife's guns and she swore she kept them in a locked safe he didn't know the code for, yet you saw his ass shooting them in his back yard all the time.

and i'm not saying murder isn't bad, but I just dislike it when things are mislabeled as it gives people the wrong idea, and i'm sorry murdering 20+ people is way worse than a single person. both are bad but one is clearly worse. the media love sensationalism and they achieve it at times by intentionally mislabeling things like this
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