re: #32 iceweasel

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.

Yeah, that was the propane bombs that didn’t go off.

The psycho-social dynamics that preceded and followed that shooting was rather strange. A few of the victims parents passed away. There was a great deal of family conflicts before that day.

One has to ask if we want to accept a world of zero tolerance. Do we become a police state in order to prevent these tragedies from happening? Is that money better spent on prevention?