The past few days, the news has been all a bubble with talk of the Amish schoolhouse shooting. Regular guy, a family man, goes off the deepend, tells everyone he's going to get "vengence" for a 20 year old event, something apparently that was kept secret and now appears possibly may have been his molestation of young girls. Death toll now reads five for that attack, and it begs the question "What could have been done to stop it, or any events in the future?".
According to some, such as Rosie O'Donnell, the solution is an all out gun ban, as she claimed earlier. In a continuation of her typical tirades against guns, she comes relatively unarmed in this battle of wits, yet decides to fight anyway. Unfortunately, most people do not know enough on the subject to know when she is incorrect, and thus believe her.
This is a sad state of affairs when someone can take an gruesome incident and twist it to try and further their goals, and push their view, with out any guilt. I just wish that someone could correct Rosie and her ilk, and have them actually pay attention and realize they are wrong. If they still feel the same way afterwards, well, that is their right. They just shouldn't be going around making decisions based on malformed information.
In regards to preventing future tragedies, I believe that some may be unavoidable, and any kneejerk reaction one may want to do will not even address the situation at all. If someone is deeply disturbed, but appears to be perfectly normal on the exterior, how can anyone stop them? Even if you take away certain things, when they snap, they will find some means to obtain their wishes. If it wasn't a gun, it would be a knife, it it wasnt that, a baseball bat, if not a bat… so on and so forth. A determined individual will obtain their goal, the best we can do is to try and spot them before they have the chance.
