There is only one way we will get massacre control in this country

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85. how will that stop anything?

Each year 10 people out of 300+ million in the US do something like this ( 0.000000001%?). It's less than ten, but I'll let you assume 100 people if you want. How do you think the pictures will stop those people?

The killers have serious problems. They think completely differently than most of us (I assume). But they don't act that differently until they finally kill. I can't imagine that seeing the pictures will stop anyone. Do you think that seeing the pictures will cause the government or other citizens to do something? What specifically would it do and how would that help.

There are 10s of thousands if not millions of people who ACT just like the killers (until they kill). Should the government monitor ALL of us to determine who MAY snap at some point? Should the government try to figure out what all of us THINKS not just how we ACT? Should the government start locking up 1000s of people or making them go to regular therapy because they did something like something a killer did? Should we all start being suspicious of anyone who does anything that we think may indicate that they are one of the 0.0000000001% of the population who may kill many people?

I don't have a clue what these killers are thinking but I'd guess it won't help to take away guns. Some put weeks into planning. They can almost certainly make explosives, start a fire, or drive a bus into a crowd and kill more people than at Newtown. Gun control MAY stop many other killings. But I can't imagine it will stop the kind of people who commit these types of acts.

We should all be alert. And we should all take some precautions that are right for us (whether that's knowing the exits or carrying a legal weapon). But I hope we don't get to thinking that anyone who "looks suspicious" may be on the way to committing a massacre. And I REALLY don't want the government to take that attitude.