A debate for mass shootings

[Bengalzona]

(10-04-2017, 12:16 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Terrorist is a word that is rapidly losing all meaning,again thanks to insane overuse and a desire to label opponents with a loaded word.  It has joined racist, white supremacist and Nazi.  As Benton correctly pointed out terrorism is violence or the threat of violence in the furtherance of a cause.  Thus, everyone labeling the shooter as a terrorist is deliberately misusing the term.  Anyone labeling the NRA a terrorist organization is deliberately misusing the term.  We are rapidly approaching the point where, for many people, words only mean what they want them to mean.

Yes. Just as the phrase "mental illness" has become a catch-all.

Looking forward to the upcoming "War on Mental Illness".

(10-04-2017, 03:45 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: There is only one law that would conceivably prevent further mass shootings, complete outlawing firearms and confiscating all that are currently in private hands.  Anything else is a pointless, feel good, appear to be doing something, gesture.  The level of planning this guy exhibited is insane, there is not a single law that would have stopped him; he had knowledge, money, time and enough intelligence to put this together.  Those things combined, or honestly any two, will trump any law you care to write. 

Yes. And a law to outlaw and confiscate firearms is self-defeating: creating a situation that well undoubtedly cause more violence and death in the process in order to prevent more violence and death.

And, yes. From every single thing I have read and heard, this guy did absolutely nothing illegal until he pulled the trigger. Also, he did nothing that would indicate any mental, personality or behavioral issues until that point.

Ain't true sociopaths something else?

There are no laws that would have prevented this.