re: #351 A Man for all Seasons

The Sunday morning political talk shows have been vigorous debate on the shooting in CT. There has been wide debate points from both sides. I have been surprised at the agreements both sides expressed today. There is hope going forward I think. Bloomberg cracks up. Sometimes he says the dumbest things. I’m glad he is not my Mayor. He said on MTP that the power of the NRA is a myth and Congress need not worry about them..Really Mike?
what a load of crap.
generally most everybody agreed that all options need to be on the table..Mental health, regulations, enforcement, Assault weapons etc.

The risk we take if we go whole hog after guns and leave the mental health system as it is-Another massacre by other means. IED designs are out there. Tom McVeigh killed with a rental truck and fertilizer. Brevik made a bomb. While a car has not been used by itself, we know car bombs are as deadly as any gun or worse. And a speeding suicide car into a crowd can certainly happen. It has happened by accident.

Please no one take this as a call to look away from enforcing gun laws we have and adding them where they can be effective. There is something mental that separates all the people who have guns, or fertilizer, or are licensed to use real high explosives for mining and excavation from those that will build or grab what they can and kill. A flight officer may have crashed his plane for suicide. Let’s pleas accelerate efforts to sort out killers and suicidal people for help.