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Old 06-14-2016, 11:15 AM   #384
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Originally Posted by Coys1882 View Post
I agree with all of this - I know it's those things I listed but you can't cure them.

I get my post was pretty negative but this #### has been happening since the dawn of man. Maybe not to the scale it does now with the accessibility to automatic weapons but it's always been around.

I also get the argument about the US being the forerunner too, again it's the sheer number of people. Norway had a mass killing - there's only 5 million people there. Genocide and child soldiers in Africa, same #### in the Balkans. We're so ####ed haha.
Right. So let's work on limiting the scale and frequency of this sort of attack, while acknowledging that you can never entirely prevent against it. Let's (as a society) agree that five people killed in a shooting is better than 50. That one mass killing a month is better than one every other day. Let's treat mental health as a priority, let's work to identify and give support to those who are going to be particularly at risk for dangerous behaviour. Work the odds. Make this sort of event a tragic, freak outlier, not something that was just waiting to happen.
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