I don't want to get drawn into this to far, but
there is no such thing as a 'coward psycho' is there? If you are a loony prepared to murder lots of people without any reason, you aren't really capable of being a coward can you, given you are by definition a mental basket case?
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Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 21:55,
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if they were really cowards
they could just stay at home crying and sucking their thumbs. It tends not to end well for these people.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 21:59,
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I don't know if you were really a psycho, why go where there is little risk of having people fight back?
In the few mass shootings that were broken up, it was from someone who had a gun close by (one had one in his truck in a school parking lot). Those killers operated on bravado and fear, but did not like bullets coming back toward them.
The real psycho would not care, but stand in the middle shouting "I am Arnold, I never get shot."
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 22:02,
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Are you saying they are really psychos or not?
They are people who, to generalise a profile, feel they have been totally rejected by society and reject it back, they choose as their targets the very people who rejected them or proxies thereof.
Besides, there will always be someone not armed somewhere, would you expect elementary school children to carry guns, and nurses in hospitals? You can't arm everybody, that would be insane. Or they will get a sniper rifle instead and shoot from where they can't be shot back. This has happened, I think.
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Moon Girl Technologies horrendous beanbag, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 22:10,
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I think anyone who kills is psychotic. That may not be the clinical definition
And I would rather them shoot a single person from afar than wander in and kill a whole bunch of people. This last shooting, the big magazine jammed (as they do) and the guy tried to fix it, eventually giving up for a pistol. Had someone been armed, something could have happened.
Nurses should not have to be armed, but they also should not be disarmed. If someone come's on my missus' ward looking to kill, I'd rather she be able to protect herself. As it is, she is prohibited from having a gun on the floor, but that does not bar the gang bangers who have come there looking to finish a job they started in the meth house.
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 22:14,
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I've killed loads of stuff but never a human. That doesn't make me a psycho.
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That alone may not, dear Pissy!
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BrokenCoccyx doesn't mind if you grope on, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 22:39,
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I think your mechanism has gone if you go around on completely random murderous shooting sprees
and a sign you might actually be completely insane.
Israel are obviously armed to the teeth in daily society because they are surrounded by people who desire their destruction, and I should imagine creates a rather sober climate with their approach to life in general. I suspect this will be misinterpreted. Siege mentality, perhaps.
Switzerland is an odd one. I think you are required by law to carry a gun certain times of the year or something. And they've been curiously absent from invasion for not just the last two world wars, but in general for a good couple of centuries.
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Jahled Three shades of black, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 22:14,
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That's because
the rich people keep their money there.
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The Scrunt Wants a Dozen Pints, Mon 30 Jul 2012, 22:20,
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It might be because of slightly different reasons:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_politics_in_Switzerland
But your joke was funny.
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