Thank you, God!

[Thomas]

Gil,

I agree on that score. One of the issues this situation brings up is why school officials feel compelled not to take action...another social issue. They are also restricted by law from compelling a mentally unstable student to get help--they can only offer the help.

Bucko,

All I can say to your post is this:em read mine again. I am not making a case for gun laws, but I am making a case against specious arguments like the claim that a law does not stop a crime, specious because taken to its logical conclusion, then we don't need preventive laws at all. We only need laws for after-the-fact, after the crime has been committed. So, attempted murder would not be a crime, only successful murder.

A major argument for our so-called war on drugs is that illegal drugs lead to crimes. Like guns, drugs don't commit crimes--people do. Maybe instead of wiping out drugs, we should do some preventive people wiping out, and then there would be fewer crimes!

Just to add to the strange logic...why is it that restricting access to guns will do nothing to prevent certain crimes, but restricting access to drugs will do something to prevent certain crimes?

Again, I am not arguing for a gun law; I am questioning the specious arguments devised to keep things as they are.



[This message has been edited by foodie (edited 04-19-2007).]