Guns don't kill people, movies do.

[darkstar]

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/04/18/updates-on-virginia-tech/
The inspiration for perhaps the most inexplicable image in the set that Cho Seung-Hui mailed to NBC news on Monday may be a movie from South Korea that won the Gran Prix prize at Cannes Film Festival in 2004.

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[Rick Myers]

1. Tweety made MATRIX references today!!!

"He has on a FLAK vest..."

No, bonehead. He has a fishing vest on. Any tactical vests use MOLLE and that is a friggin' fishing vest!!!

[OHdem10]

2. Seriously Mentally Ill People who

are not under strict supervision regarding
taking their Medications kill people.

I have never touched a gun and never plan to.
Guns make me uncomfortable. However, It also
makes me uncomfortable for people to yell
we need more laws without looking at a
situation and seeing the real culprit.

Years ago we over reacted and threw all the
mentally ill onto the street to fend for
themselves. How many people have been attacked
and or killed at the hand of Mentally Ill
People??? Lots. It seems I read about them all the time.

We have a culture in which the 2ond Ammendment
carries elections. This is not going to change.

There was a time when the Shooter would have
been properly diagnosed (probably Paranoid Schizophrenic)
Therapy including proper medications and some sort
of supervision to see that he took them. One
of the most serious problems in dealing with
Schizophrenics is taking their medicines on
schedule. Without this they go into delusions
of grandeur to fits of depression. Either way
they lose contact with Reality and then Katie
bar the door.

There is that fine line between protecting one
person's civil liberities and the greater
society's safely.

[AdHocSolver]

3. This case provides another reason for comprehensive national health care.

From what we have learned so far, Cho Seung-Hui was a young man with mental problems who needed medical care. The first thought that came to mind while watching Olbermann tonight was why wasn't this guy on medication? Then I remembered how expensive medical care is in this country, the millions that can't affrord it, and how hospitals and clinics turn away people with chronic conditions unless they have "boutique" health insurance.

This incident at Virginia Tech should start a discussion, not about guns, but why this country has such poor health care that this troubled young man couldn't get the help he needed!