NRA finally meets its match: Why Richard Martinez should have them shaking

[jtuck004]

80. Nice story. Do you write fiction for a living? Notice that the character starts as a "psychopath".

Then it suddenly moves to advocacy with a bunch of the supporting story missing. According to your narrative the kid was sick. A psychopath. If he was sick there is no point in hypothetical which posit him as rational, and I won't waste my time. One could, by ignoring the available evidence which appears to point to that, but, much like the little kids at the short table lift their shrill little voices in a hearty round of name-calling and mud slinging, it's always easier to be attracted by the shiny things. But it really doesn't make things all better. And they are annoying.

"Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
-John Kenneth Galbraith

If he was a psychopath, which the chronicle above states, (which I doubt in total - I think it was another disorder, and he was very, pathologically, a little afraid and a little dead inside - like a dog who has been left out in the yard for years with little to no human contact) it gives short shrift to that most likely proximal cause. Such a lack of empathy indicates one might use any available weapon, and, indeed, he used a knife and at least one gun. We have bankers who also display that extreme lack of empathy, like psychopaths, who may well be responsible for the deaths of at least scores of people via suicide and heart failure and family murder from desperation according to CDC, Census, and Justice and police department reports. , - one has to wonder if the extreme lack of empathy qualifies them as psychopaths too? If so, we are probably fucking lucky this kid didn't take up accounting. But I digress...

You also disrespect and sweep under the bus the three that were stabbed to death in your rush to get on to the anti-gun rally. <--- and for that reason I won't be reading you any longer. I'm not that cold.

The kid was sick, and everyone missed every opportunity, if there was one, to keep everyone else safe by committing someone who was making threats and ill.

I'm not against the regulation of guns. I am against an ignorant and stupid rush to bring the torches and pitchforks to bear on the monster, the one the crowd has determined is guilty. Most times they are fools, will get other innocent people hurt, and in the process become no better than the psychopath.

Bye.