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iceweasel2/19/2010 12:27:23 am PST

re: #29 Gus 802

You know what happens once you start mentioning psycho regarding a criminal. All kinds of irrational outrage follows. Which is not to say these people should be punished but I just find it part of a pattern of neglect in society. Or that is blatant disregard for other people even if it means preventing the occasional psycho-path from killing others. We have this Old West mentality that never seems to have gone away and might even be making a comeback.

Bishop does appear to have mental health issues, though. She’s certainly involved in (and suspected of) some very violent incidents.

Even so, there really doesn’t seem to be anything that could have been done to stop her. It’s a workplace shooting.
Suppose all workplaces, everywhere, and all schools, searched everyone for weapons on arrival.
That isn’t going to happen, and it won’t prevent workplace shootings anyway. Recall that the Columbine killers had planted pipe bombs. Their initial plan was to wait in the parking lot and then pick off the fleeing survivors of the bombs— and kill all emergency rescue workers arriving.
When the bombs didn’t detonate, they entered the school.