Then we read two very different accounts. What I read said the .223 was found in the trunk of his car. As far as I know the prep was dead inside the school. Dead men can't put weapons in their trunk.
As far as a safety course some states do that already (California being one of them), but I'm with you. There's a way to go about this without attacking guns, but making sure people are responsible with them.
I can not believe I am saying this but to a certain extent I agree with Martin. But let me explain: I think I have told this story but it was years ago and I have no idea where. So I will tell it again. In 2001 I was a manager of a bar in Orlando. It was a family owned business and the owner and his mom were very close friends of mine which is why I took the job in the first place. One morning I walked into work to find her son crying over her body in the walk in cooler. As everything started to come into focus, I saw the most horrific thing I have ever seen. I won't go into details but just that his mom had been shot in the head at pretty close range. By this time police were pulling me away from the scene and the rest of the immediate couple of hours becomes a blur. Of course it made the news here in Orlando for weeks and being the second on the scene there were pictures of me all over the news and newspapers, mainly taken after the cops got us in the parking lot and the media were taking pictures over the police tape. The news also trickled into Baton Rouge by my parents or maybe some close friends. My point (if you are still reading )is that people came out of the woodwork, first I took it as people wanting to help and then I realized it just was people wanting to be part of the story, without having any true knowledge of the people or the situation. So basically they wanted to be sad and wanted to be a part of the horrific events, so they could retell the story and sound like an insider. If they had been there or felt an ounce of what I felt, they wouldn't have wanted to be an insider. I never want to be an insider like that again. Twelve years later I can write this story, even though I have found that more and more the story gets foggier as the years go by, which I appreciate. I see people on facebook and social media, just rehashing every detail in the defense of "not forgetting", I call bull shit! These people need to start to heal and don't need it rehashed over and over. I was heartbroken by the situation, but I stopped watching the news and stop reading social media, and I feel better already. I don't want to be a part of their story, as it is THEIR story. One day they will tell it, especially when it starts to get foggier and maybe then I will watch and I will probably cry, but let it be right now. You are not part of the story and I promise you don't want to be.
Well said. You have described an odd and fascinating fact about human nature that very few people notice or acknowledge.
furthermore, i think we in general have a sort of perverted relationship with tragedy. we want to be involved. it makes no sense to me, but its overwhelming. we have sent so many stupid teddy bears to connecticut that they have had to ask us to stop. and of course ts all wasteful and pointless and self serving in a weird and creepy way, and its media driven, and tragedy is like an industry now, and it mobilizes when something bad happens.
Exactly and I can't speak for all but most people at first may appreciate it but it gets old REAL quick and by real quick I mean less then a day. You literally have to turn your phone off to have a quite five minutes, and in my situation I couldn't because I was in constant contact with the dectives because our guy wasn't arested fir a good bit after.
The aurora guy used an ar15 too. Btw, I understand that 71% of NRA members are for assault rifle bans. The solution I now favor is taxing ammo 10000%.
