I definitely feel we have gone way to far in the wrong direction. The very idea that Fairfax County could not tell Tech about Cho’s disability just seems criminal to me…not criminal on the part of Fairfax County but criminal on the part of our legal system. The notion that nothing can be done unless that person demonstrates they are harmful to society is also wacked.

Equating a car to a gun or a baseball bat to a gun is not a good analogy. Cars and baseball bats exist for their own purposes. To use either for nefarious purposes is an aside. Guns exist for one reason: to stop something in its tracks. I don’t oppose this. I just don’t want kids or lunatics to have access to them.

No system will catch someone with no prior mental health history who “snaps”. That being the case the only practical answer for a rational adult is effective self defense.

“Human beings only have two ways to deal with one another: reason and force. If you want me to do something for you, you have a choice of either convincing me via argument, or force me to do your bidding under threat of force. Every human interaction falls into one of those two categories, without exception. Reason or force, that’s it.”

From why the gun is civilization.

When you’re dealing with someone who WILL NOT use reason you’re left with force.

While we can lament these facts, and hope for a utopia that allows a different reality, we can’t do anything other than face them.

Q. What 3 things in this photo are fake?

A. Hillary and,…

I cannot remember a single news story in the last decade about a lunatic using a car to mow down pedestrians with abandon

Let me refresh your memory:

September 22, 2005

Driver to face multiple murder charges in Las Vegas Strip crash
By KEN RITTER
ASSOCIATED PRESS

LAS VEGAS (AP) - The driver of the stolen car who police say deliberately plowed into a crowd of pedestrians on the Las Vegas Strip will face multiple murder charges after a second person died from injuries Thursday, authorities said.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/nevada/2005/sep/22/092210287.html

and

DRIVER’S RAMPAGE
Amid chaos, many rushed to aid victims

C.W. Nevius

Thursday, August 31, 2006

It would be easy to see the tale of a crazed SUV driver who mowed down more than a dozen pedestrians Tuesday in San Francisco and Fremont as another outburst of seemingly random violence in a scary world. But there’s another side to the story.

. . .”Get out of the street!” they yelled. “He’s coming back.”

And the driver did. Hilkert was pulled to safety behind a light pole as the driver roared down the street again, swerving over toward the bus stop where a small crowd was huddled and accelerating down the street when he apparently realized that a light post and concrete trashcan would protect the group.

“He was trolling for people,” says UCSF nurse practitioner Natalie Olsen, who ran out of a Thai restaurant to tend to the injured.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/08/31/MNGMGKSMHJ1.DTL

*LOL*

Hellary gives me the chills too!

“I cannot remember a single news story in the last decade about a lunatic using a car to mow down pedestrians.”

Google the following: UNC Chapel Hill SUV Attack.

Here … I’ll give you a head start:

http://jihadwatch.org/archives/010479.php

And who could possibly forget the horrid fate of James Byrd?

His story drew national, as well as international attention … while Ken Tillery, who suffered a very similar fate - at the hands of fiends who weilded a vehicle as a deadly weapon - barely made press.

No Oprah show for his grieving family, no NAACP, Jesse Jackson or Sharpton, no big name politicians voiced their outrage or compassion…

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?id=1464

Hard to remember that which is never allowed the light of day.

Then again, the MOTHER of all homocide-by-vehicle stories was 9-11, and some of us regard it as the ultimate in faith-based initiatives.

[Ed note: comment edited.]

Quite the quandary (the hugs part)! The kid didn’t live with his ‘parents’ because he allegedly had issues with his stepmother. That’s a little odd to me. Where’s his FATHER? Did his father not want him at all? There’s been little, so far, explaining that.

I do wonder if this kid had to buy his own Jeep Cherokee.

When I was a teenager and wanted a car, my parents’ reaction was: “Okay, great, then go get a job.” My parents could well afford to buy me a car, but I didn’t really need one and I knew it as well as they did. But I got a job. When I had a decent pile of the money earned, then they helped me out. I still prefer my parents’ wise ways to the lazy, give-your-kids-everything parenting method that seems to have become more dominant lately.

When parents are strict but loving and responsive, then you grow a healthy respect for them. You also are more likely to see your parents as people to go to with your problems. Unfortunately, too many parents try to be friends, instead of doing their jobs as parents.

Though your second line stumbles a bit
I’ll declare the whole thing is a hit
Your verse training is done, my young padawan,
Next we’ll address all the neocon s—t!

Maybe try

But where’s poor ole Willie
There he is again, after Lewenski

I will leave the poetry to you since I can not do it poetic justice (c;