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terrya (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 06:51 PM Original message |
A story about the shootings at Northern Illinois University on the local news. |
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dogman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 06:55 PM Response to Original message |
1. Because the NRA has so many emotionally or mentally unstable members. |
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tuckessee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 12:00 PM Response to Reply #1 |
16. How many NRA members have committed mass shootings? n/t |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 06:58 PM Response to Original message |
2. Because the gun crazies' interpretation of the 2nd Amendment |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
3. Because as I understand it, he had not been adjudicated as mentally ill. Do you want every one with |
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bbinacan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 07:03 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. Excellent point. n/t |
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Critters2 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 07:17 PM Response to Reply #3 |
6. "Adjudicated" don't enter into it. Illinois state law says |
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jody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 07:40 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Ill law says it's a crime if "(4) He has been a patient in a mental hospital within the past 5 years |
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IsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 09:55 PM Response to Reply #6 |
11. Wrong!!! I have read up on the Illinois state law since this shooting and it states that if you |
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IsItJustMe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 09:51 PM Response to Reply #3 |
9. You have to watch those people that have a compulsive/obsessive disorder who wash their hands all th... |
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spoony (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 11:06 AM Response to Reply #9 |
13. Indeed! |
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bluerum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 07:14 PM Response to Original message |
5. It seems like background checks as they are implemented today are a weak link. |
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KharmaTrain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 07:45 PM Response to Reply #5 |
8. I've Posted About This Problem Previously |
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bluerum (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 10:28 AM Response to Reply #8 |
12. I am with you kharmatrain. The law itself seems to be a strawman - a place holder |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Feb-17-08 09:54 PM Response to Original message |
10. Because mental illness is not treated as real in this country. |
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LSK (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
14. because emotionally or mentally unstable militias have the right to bear arms |
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davsand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 11:44 AM Response to Original message |
15. Even IF somebody warned them there isn't much they can do. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 12:01 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. That's exactly why imho the way to prevent or reduce these incidents |
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davsand (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 12:42 PM Response to Reply #17 |
18. What is so tragic is that the kid was in Social Work. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 01:09 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Part of it is simply money and the way we allocate resources. |
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marions ghost (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Feb-18-08 01:16 PM Response to Original message |
20. A society is insane |
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