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Originally Posted by Locke
Okay, but this sounds like 'War on Crime/War on Drugs' thing.
Have we not had enough evidence to show that harsh sentencing guidelines dont really have a tendency to actually do much to diminish or deter crimes?
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I don't know about this if it will deter crime, but if like in this incidence, the kid was bullied growing up and just snapped one day. But if there are tougher regulation on buying guns. He wouldn't have any channel to get powerful gun to kill so many innocent people. It wasn't so much that harsher sentence on the shooter, it's harder sentencing on the people who provide weapons to the shooter. I don't know if this will deter them killing people but as least give it a try?
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More focus on Mental Health...but thats a cop out. Its just a nothing phrase unfortunately its also not wrong. Bullying and stress are bad for mental health which seems to be the key issue here. A person has been pushed to a breaking point.
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This I totally agree, tougher on bullying. A bully will not outgrow it. If he or she bully others in school, he or she will bully others in the work place when they have a chance. It really saddened me that authority taken bullying so lightly.
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Granted, I have to admit thats a breaking point I dont understand in this instance. I have no idea why an 18-year old took issue with a bunch of 4th Graders to push him to this point? It doesnt seem to make a lot of sense.
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I'm just totally speculating here, may be because he has been bullied since he was a little kid and no one came to his defense. So when he snapped, he still does not have courage to confront the bigger and stronger people, so he picked on some one smaller and weaker like when he was a kid. It's just sad.