As for Colorado being a shooter's hotbed, I just remembered about how Colorado is a popular gun state. In Littleton, is there not a big weapons factory there? I remember watching that in Bowling for Columbine.
I do believe that is partially to blame for these killings. I've always been a big anti-gun person. I mean really, tell me the reason any person should be able to go out and buy an automatic weapon? Where is the skill in shooting a deer with an assault rifle? Doesn't that defeat the concept of hunting? It's supposed to be a skill sport, no?
I do realize this sounds weird, but less people would have died if these shooters didn't have these automatic weapons. Vtech shooter had automatic weapon(s), apparently so did both those Colorado shootings?
I don't think people should be able to buy guns anyway. Even pistols and such. Only cops, military and special authority should have guns. I do realize that a bunch of people disagree with those statements but that's what I think. I live near a big city and it's the same story every night, so and so got "capped" on the street by a gun. Drive-by. It's too easy for these people to get these guns.
It sucks because I do get the self defense theory. If one guy has a gun pointed at you and you don't have one, who will win? Yeah, I get that. And yeah, the problem is that even if guns were outlawed there would still be illegal gun purchases just like all those drug purchases that happen all the time. But I'm saying there would be harder access to these weapons which would make the psycho James Holmes's of the world less tempted to purchase a weapon from a shady gun dealer in the what would be illegal gun market. Walking up to a register and attaining a gun license is too easy.
It seems like all you gotta do is just stay clean and not have a criminal record until you decide you want to shoot up the place. (Sarcastic)
It seems cops are more concerned about petty marijuana and gambling than they are about gun purchases. What a screwed up country I live in (USA). No wonder it's so violent. It's okay to go to KMart and buy a gun so you can possibly kill someone, but you can't use your credit card to place a $20 bet on a basketball game.
As for the mentally ill debate, those arguments always come out on here like what is shyness, SA, SAD? The same thing always happens, everyone seems to have a different opinion.
What is mentally ill? Imo it's someone who isn't right in the head, and anyone shooting up crowded movie theaters and killing innocent people definitely qualifies as mentally ill. Dare I say psychotic. If that isn't mentally ill, then what is?