Just shut up.

are Trump and Paul starting a comedy teem ?

OF COURSE the government can fix the problem, but it would require looking at some ugly truths most people like to ignore.

I guess it's strictly a coincidence in Rand Paul's world that mass gun violence is an extreme rarity in these countries (C Hebdo & Norway notwithstanding).

all will be right with the world?

The apple did not fall far from the tree.

Why run for President? You just contradict yourself AND its your type of religion that fuels the hatred.

That is equivalent if back in the 80's saying government can't do anything to solve the problem with DWI's,... we are just going to have to accept that people are going to drink and drive and hurt others.

That way, no one would ever use drugs.

I was hoping to hear Sen. Paul's free market solution to this sickness. Who can make a buck off of stopping this sickness? Unless and until there's money to be made doing that, I guess we're just stuck eh Senator?

I would have stopped Dylann Storm Roof.

Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able?
Then he is not omnipotent.
Is he able, but not willing?
Then he is malevolent.
Is he both able and willing?
Then whence cometh evil?
Is he neither able nor willing?
Then why call him God?"

- Epicurus

That was easy.

less Rand Pauls please.

The last person I need to hear from today is that slimeball and his kook father.

There is nothing government can do about individually bigoted and hate-crazed people. Zip, zero, nada. That would require some sort of nightmare Philip K. Dick world where "precrimes" are detectable and may serve as the basis for arrest and, most likely, permanent "disappearance." No one wants to live in a dystopia like that.

What government can do is provide universal access to health care, including mental health, and it is to be hoped that the professionals in the mental health professions would be able to get the loonier and more dangerous ones into secure facilities, and yes, against their will if it's necessary. The government could also impose some sort of mental health requirements or meaningful investigations a priori for ownership of firearms. It is far easier these days to get a firearm than to purchase a house or drive a car. Something is profoundly upside-down about that to say the least.

And what the fuck kind of father gives a deeply disturbed kid a fucking GUN for a birthday present??!!?? That silly shit should be locked up with his son as an accessory before the fact

Can you pass a law that makes people stop being racist?

Sure you can do things to make incidents like this harder to commit with gun control and such. But can our government change the way Americans think? If someone out there hates black people or hates homosexuals or Muslims or whatever... I don't think there is anything the government can do that can change that mentality.

The cold, hard reality is the human race is not advanced enough to put this kind of thing behind us. What we were fighting in the 1960s is the same thing we are fighting today. The Civil Rights Act didn't stop racism. I don't know if any law can. America is a violent society. There is no two ways about that. We as a society have to find a way to convince change on that level...the societal level.

We are definitely on the same wavelength.