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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall

It's not that there are more deranged people now. It's that, after Columbine, crazy people have an idea--a plan they've seen in action already. And video games, movies and tv expand on, or give color to, that idea. If you can see yourself doing it as you play a game, you can see yourself doing it, period.

But the core or fundamental problem is access to guns. It is way too easy and has become easier to access the types of weapons to carry out a Columbine-style attack. I accept no other argument about why this is happening. Take away these guns and people live. That's all there is to it.

TM

But that ain't America. We'd rather have our "freedom" at the cost of several dozen young lives. From an editorial in the NYT by a guy who's kid was killed in a school shooting:

>>In the wake of Galen’s murder, I wrote a book about the shooting. In it I suggested that we view gun crime as a public health issue, much the same as smoking or pesticides. I spent a number of years attending rallies, signing petitions, writing letters and making speeches, but eventually I gave up. Gun control, such a live issue in the “early” days of school shootings, inexplicably became a third-rail issue for politicians.

I came to realize that, in essence, this is the way we in America want things to be. We want our freedom, and we want our firearms, and if we have to endure the occasional school shooting, so be it.

I will note that to get into the real important places: Congress, Federal Courthouses and planes, you DO have to go through a metal detector.