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maveric56

(137 posts) Thu Dec 20, 2012, 04:03 PM Dec 2012

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Something should had been done after this 1984 incident.

McDonalds massacre
http://www.utsandiego.com/san-ysidro-massacre/
This was 28 years ago.
Assault rifles in the hands of the mentally ill.

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Something should had been done after this 1984 incident. (Original Post) maveric56 Dec 2012 OP

Well, on the proliferationist side, a lot of disparaging and sabotaging of sensible safety laws villager Dec 2012 #1

+1000 ellisonz Dec 2012 #2

How do you know that the murderer was mentally ill? yardwork Dec 2012 #3

Telling his wife earlier that day that he was going "hunting people". maveric56 Dec 2012 #4

that's what guns are for, seems sane to me. nt msongs Dec 2012 #5

Bingo. yardwork Dec 2012 #8

By that reasoning, all murderers are "mentally ill." yardwork Dec 2012 #7

Something WAS done... dogknob Dec 2012 #6

I remember that picture renate Dec 2012 #9

That incident shocked me profoundly. Arugula Latte Dec 2012 #10

villager

(26,001 posts)

1. Well, on the proliferationist side, a lot of disparaging and sabotaging of sensible safety laws

Reply to maveric56 (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 04:05 PM

Dec 2012

...was done.

And then when the internet came along, they were all free to snark about the same things, while dismissing the growing body counts!

ellisonz

(27,711 posts)

2. +1000

Reply to villager (Reply #1)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 04:13 PM

Dec 2012

yardwork

(61,712 posts)

3. How do you know that the murderer was mentally ill?

Reply to maveric56 (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 04:15 PM

Dec 2012

maveric56

(137 posts)

4. Telling his wife earlier that day that he was going "hunting people".

Reply to yardwork (Reply #3)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 04:20 PM

Dec 2012

Ya think he might have had a hint of MI?

msongs

(67,453 posts)

5. that's what guns are for, seems sane to me. nt

Reply to maveric56 (Reply #4)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 04:57 PM

Dec 2012

yardwork

(61,712 posts)

8. Bingo.

Reply to msongs (Reply #5)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 05:13 PM

Dec 2012

yardwork

(61,712 posts)

7. By that reasoning, all murderers are "mentally ill."

Reply to maveric56 (Reply #4)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 05:13 PM

Dec 2012

All murderers are human, too. What's your point?

dogknob

(2,431 posts)

6. Something WAS done...

Reply to maveric56 (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 05:01 PM

Dec 2012

They built a bigger McDonald's right next to the trolley station/border crossing.

renate

(13,776 posts)

9. I remember that picture

Reply to maveric56 (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 05:19 PM

Dec 2012

I didn't even have to click on the link to remember it--I've thought of that picture with the bike many times over the years.

Maybe if there'd been an Internet back then, or 24-hour news channels (I can't remember whether CNN was around then but I think they only ran the news in 30-minute cycles, not breaking-news-style coverage), something might have been done.

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)

10. That incident shocked me profoundly.

Reply to maveric56 (Original post)

Thu Dec 20, 2012, 05:21 PM

Dec 2012

What has shocked me even more profoundly in almost 30 years that have passed is this country's unhinged gun-humping response and ever-more strident embrace of firearm nuttery.

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