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Carl Tollander on
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> It seems to me the knee-jerk response to this sort of thing is to
> improve detection and mitigate consequences, as with gun control I'd
> guess detection can and will be defeated by someone like this (in part
> because he probably has someone helping him, like his mother), and
> consequences can't be prevented in some cases. In a few years people
> will be able to go to Kinko's and print-out weapons on 3D printers.
> How will gun control work then?
It will work just fine. We will go to Kinko's and print out something
that renders your printed out weapon useless, at least for awhile.
There will always be some mod to the regulation regime that will defeat
the self-entitled folks that want to amuse themselves by gaming the
system, at least for awhile. Its an iterative process.
Other countries have gun control systems that work pretty well, at least
much better than ours. So we have models to look at and reverse
engineer as we iterate.
Carl
On 12/18/12 12:21 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
> On 12/18/12 11:10 AM, Leigh Fanning wrote:
>> It seems the entire surrounding group was out of touch. Was the father
>> so removed that he spent no time with his son and simply paid
>> off the mother to make a problem go away so he could continue his
>> wealthy much better than yours life? Are we really to believe that
>> he had no knowledge of his son's activities?
> Perhaps the mother was so fixated on her misunderstood child that she
> could not cope with reality in right front of her. Perhaps the
> father's insistence on convincing her of her error was the end of the
> marriage.
> Perhaps all this caused the son, the problem dog in the backyard tied
> to a chain, to retreat further into a strange and dangerous mental
> life. Perhaps his attack, on obvious innocents, was in some sense an
> attack on the concept of children as vanity accessories of parents.
> From his isolated perspective, maybe it was a mercy killing of those
> children. The media keeps suggesting he was intelligent, and he did
> destroy his computer. There could have been a plan. There are other
> scenarios one might imagine. Freudian type explanations..
>
> Until contrary evidence becomes public, I think one has to at least
> entertain the possibility that the parents had no understanding
> whatsoever of what he was capable of. Perhaps because one or both of
> them couldn't bear to turn the page and think outside their world view.
>
> It seems to me the knee-jerk response to this sort of thing is to
> improve detection and mitigate consequences, as with gun control I'd
> guess detection can and will be defeated by someone like this (in part
> because he probably has someone helping him, like his mother), and
> consequences can't be prevented in some cases. In a few years people
> will be able to go to Kinko's and print-out weapons on 3D printers.
> How will gun control work then?
>
> Marcus
>
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