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Old June 9, 2013, 06:26 AM   #20
TDL
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It started in a home and moved out onto the streets before ending up on a campus. That part of it happened in a gun-free zone really doesn't matter at all. Whether or not the shootings occur happen regardless of zoning.
Disagree. We don't know everything so far but from the LA police statements and leaks to reporters the operating view seems to be that he did in fact intend to go to the school. At first they were indicating they believed he merely ended up a the school, what they are saying now is that that was his destination.

I find the "gun free zone" as a target of spree killers to be compelling and germane.

The triggering event for many these spree killers may be unplanned, but that does not mean the killers are acting randomly and without a plan.

For all we know Lanza had a some kind of argument (domestic dispute) or random event with his mom that set him off on what had previously been a fantasy that he ran over and over in his head and was well thought out.

This Santa Monica killer may have had a triggering "family dispute" event occur, triggering the acting out an existing school shooting fantasy.

WE do know these spree school shooters are often focused on prior shooters and attaining high body counts. That is indeed why they target gun free zones which enable those body counts.

Essentially these young men are suicidal and seek to defeat their insignificance through fame that derives from the final act. That fame is increased by a high body count. the high body count is in some part enabled by heading to a high density gun free zone.

The fact that Feinstein believes in gun free zones is also germane. Not simply because they are ineffective and in many cases ironically draw the shooter. But because they are a diversion from the real causes and sources of criminal violence. The anti gun movement, particularly the politicians who use it, involves at its heart, a massive diversion. That diversion has two core problems/evils: a) it implies it is solving the problem but it is not; b) it scapegoats and sanctions an innocent class of persons (gun owners).
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