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Well, the thing is your suggestion explicitly infringes on second amendment rights of law abiding US citizens. You are talking about practically criminalizing the abnormal. Probably worse is that you're talking about publishing a list of the abnormal with wich to discriminate by. But, y'know, only a particular subset of the abnormal. That's okay. There is no answer to be found in knee jerk single focus responses. This guy was depressed, lets limit the rights of all depressed people! This guy played video games, lets limit video games! This guy voted for the green party, lets outlaw non-republican or democratic voters! Gorth pointed it out best. It's not just one thing. Many things contribute and it's improper to just pick and choose the aspects you think are okay to isolate. Violent media, healthcare, social problems, guns, and much else. Many of these are problems we already know about and work on. However, other people choose to play a blame / defensive-blame game that only serves to confuse the issues instead of look at them. The two most important things I think should be done are better education systems in regards to making the public aware of topics of social problems, mental health, and violent media beyond the media arguments. And more responsive state and local governments that implement more trial measure laws with guaranteed expirations should they not show the desired effects.

That's just an exaggeration. 2 days is reasonable for freedom.

What kind of mental illness? Are we talking the schizophrenic, the depressed, the manic, ODD, ADHD, CD, ASBD, OCD, autistic, those with irrational fears? Postpartum depression, PTSD? Enuresis? 90% of the people who are critical of the government can fit or be shoehorned into quite a number of these categories. I can think of at least 4 I am able to fit you into. Criteria for a diagnosis of any particular mental illness is not meant to be used to exclude people in the fashion you think it is.

Sounds nice as an empty statement. But the important question is "how?" Do you mandate medication (mind control)? Do you incarcerate for no crime other than being mentally ill (thought crime)? This individual had access to medication. He just chose to stop taking it. So, it doesn't seem like much of a lack of proper healthcare in his case.

Thought crime and mind control is the answer.

I now know more about side yards and setbacks than I ever had interest in. As a side note, I'm on schedule to be completely grey by the time I hit 30.

Obviously the Polish hate freedom.

People also still eat fruit and meat. This does not make you an american black bear. When you reduce anything enough, everything becomes the same.

What did I do to you? Why are you making this about me?

You have to understand. Sand doesn't actually care about whether or not anyone gets hurt. His only concern, and the only thing he thinks is important to anyone, is the topic of "blame." Let me clarify. If Sand were to see a woman putting her child in the cage with a lion, Sand will be the first one pointing his fingers at the woman. Don't even try to get that kid out of the lion cage. No, that would just be blaming the lion, when you really should just be pointing fingers at the lady.

"The one thing that pisses me off in this entire affair" are the people who think that anyone's response to a crisis or plans to prevent future crisis that don't revolve around doing nothing but preparing to point fingers at the perpetrator after the crisis are automatically labeled as shifting blame. Jack Thompson? Yeah, he's that kind of douchebag. But not everyone who speaks for reforms to prevent crisis are blaming.

Greedy reductionism. Generally, if you can describe an entire species in the from of a few sentences, you're not actually being honestly descriptive. I don't mean to argue there have been giant strides in evolution in the past 2000 years. To try to do so in the context of this discussion would be to be ignorant as to what evolution even means. I'm merely saying that your cliched coffee shop philosophy rational is asinine.

Possibly not in the way that you mean, but on a purely technical level, yes we are. Comparing the life expectancy, average height and cranium size of modern people to those who lived 2000 years ago attests to that much. However, our behavior towards one another shows that we are as primitive as we were back then. Speak for yourself. I don't recall clubbing any rivals for female attention lately.

Those cows would eat you if they had the chance. It's not just delicious nutrition, it's also WAR FOR OUR VERY SURVIVAL.

RE Gundam 00: There can't be only 7 episodes left! I'll feel robbed!

But I've never actually bothered reading manga before. I don't know if I can do it, Jim! Wiki plot summaries are more my thing.

I think I watched up through 17 yesterday.

It's nice to see profits put back into improving the product.

Started watching Claymore yesterday. Didn't think I'd particularly like it, but I really do. It was hard to stop watching it to go to bed last night.

Too tempting to make a joke about Sawyer running around in a loin cloth. But I'm not on such terms with these gentlemen.

*sits in stunned silence*

Can't wait to replay with the patch.

Obviously it was a typo. The true intent was that "the right of the people to keep bear arms shall not be infringed." The arms of bears were popular commodities back in the day.

Like a sense of satisfaction? TOO LATE! *burp*

I think I'll have beef for lunch. Om nom nom.