It seems to me the knee-jerk response to this sort of thing is to
improve detection and mitigate consequences, as with gun control I'd
guess detection can and will be defeated by someone like this (in part
because he probably has someone helping him, like his mother), and
consequences can't be prevented in some cases. In a few years people
will be able to go to Kinko's and print-out weapons on 3D printers.
How will gun control work then?
It will work just fine. We will go to Kinko's and print out something
that renders your printed out weapon useless, at least for awhile.
There will always be some mod to the regulation regime that will defeat
the self-entitled folks that want to amuse themselves by gaming the
system, at least for awhile. Its an iterative process.
Other countries have gun control systems that work pretty well, at least
much better than ours. So we have models to look at and reverse
engineer as we iterate.
Carl
On 12/18/12 12:21 PM, Marcus G. Daniels wrote:
On 12/18/12 11:10 AM, Leigh Fanning wrote:
It seems the entire surrounding group was out of touch. Was the father
so removed that he spent no time with his son and simply paid
off the mother to make a problem go away so he could continue his
wealthy much better than yours life? Are we really to believe that
he had no knowledge of his son's activities?
Perhaps the mother was so fixated on her misunderstood child that she
could not cope with reality in right front of her. Perhaps the
father's insistence on convincing her of her error was the end of the
marriage.
Perhaps all this caused the son, the problem dog in the backyard tied
to a chain, to retreat further into a strange and dangerous mental
life. Perhaps his attack, on obvious innocents, was in some sense an
attack on the concept of children as vanity accessories of parents.
From his isolated perspective, maybe it was a mercy killing of those
children. The media keeps suggesting he was intelligent, and he did
destroy his computer. There could have been a plan. There are other
scenarios one might imagine. Freudian type explanations..
Until contrary evidence becomes public, I think one has to at least
entertain the possibility that the parents had no understanding
whatsoever of what he was capable of. Perhaps because one or both of
them couldn't bear to turn the page and think outside their world view.
It seems to me the knee-jerk response to this sort of thing is to
improve detection and mitigate consequences, as with gun control I'd
guess detection can and will be defeated by someone like this (in part
because he probably has someone helping him, like his mother), and
consequences can't be prevented in some cases. In a few years people
will be able to go to Kinko's and print-out weapons on 3D printers.
How will gun control work then?
Marcus
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