“Meticulous planning”. The media. Words and phrase choices. and the Vegas shooting.
I’m an IT Geek. Meticulous planning is something I’m relatively familiar with. When you have a Gantt Chart that spans months over dozens of pages with hundreds of steps that depend on each other, that is meticulous planning.
“Meticulous planning” is NOT:
- Buying a crap ton of guns and ammo. Performing ridiculously easy modifications to those weapons.
- Asking for a room overlooking a well known and well published country music festival.
- Carrying the weapons up to a hotel room over a few days.
- Waiting for the festival’s last act. Shooting or breaking out a few windows. Fire in general direction of concert crowd until weapon is empty, reload, repeat until the authorities arrive and end yourself.
There were 22,000 people attending that concert. 58 were killed. That is a spectacularly low kill ratio…just about one quarter of one percent of the crowd. An expert marksmen or weapon handler he was not.
He was not necessarily genius. These weapons and firearms technology are readily available to the majority of the public and they are ridiculously easy to operate with just a few minutes of familiarization (even a few minutes on YouTube).
With the rising rate of psychological and emotional issues being handled with psychotropic “antidepressants” what is shocking is that this doesn’t happen every day.
What is most shocking is that we as human beings haven’t figured out a way to prevent this.
Bono malum superate (Overcome evil with Good). What good can be brought to bare to stop this evil?
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Sadly, even after the Sandy Hook massacre, nothing changed and no controls were placed on firearms. You ask what good can be brought to bear to stop this? America needs to realize guns kill people, and automatic weapons have no place in a civilized society - semi and automatic weapons exist for a single reason, to cause massive destruction, they belong only on a battlefield. What America needs to remember is guns don’t make us free, rather they are used to intimidate people who disagree with people who insist on carrying them out in public and taking them to demonstrations. This is a public health crisis. More senseless deaths, lives shattered by a twisted individual who had far too many guns and far too easy access to guns. Why does anyone need more than (if even) a handgun? It’s been far too easy to get guns in this country for far too long. The NRA has lobbied the senators/representatives and the Republicans had linked gun ownership with patriotism/apple pie and sadly people just miss the link. It’s pretty simple. Guns kill.