The solution is to fix the Justice system so serious criminal trials are done quickly, but fairly and don't take 5 years to see through completion because of endless delays. The whole 'right to a speedy trial' is constantly being 'stretched', if not outright violated.philip964 wrote:The gun control legislation is starting already http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47338.html" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;
Like the Virginia Tech shooting, the deranged individual was allowed to purchase a gun, because he had not been convicted of a serious crime "yet" and had not been officially been labeled "crazy". But, unlike the Virginia Tech shooting, this guy was not in a "gun free zone". Arizona does not permit concealed carry without a permit. I suspect he was in violation of that law at least.
Had it been a gun free zone, we could have said "so see there", no one could defend themselves. But here it was Arizona, lots of people have guns in Arizona and they allow concealed carry.
What is the solution? We don't have "precrime" yet. You can't arrest someone until they really commit a crime. These deranged people like to make their first crime a big one.
We can blame his parents, but that does not do much good. He was an adult, but of course like all parents they supported him, gave him an nice allowance so he could buy a gun. And looked the other way at his increasingly bizarre actions and hoped he would grow out of it. Just like the Columbine High School parents, they never looked in his room.
Pass a urine test before you buy a gun. Seemed to work for the military, they figured out he was no good when he applied.
We need to come up with something, because if the people from New York come up with it first, we may not like their solution very much.
Stop clogging the courts with things that shouldn't be crimes, and leave more room for quicker processing of real crimes.
.. then again, I could just be mad because I have to go back to court in April again for the 4th time, for a ticket from 2 years ago because it keeps getting reschedueled because I won't cave and plea, but would rather trial it out, because In an actual trial, I would have the law on my side.
(Summary: I was ticketed in a collision, while the other driver was not. I was ticketed for failure to yield ROW, yet, the other driver was in the process of committing a moving violation at the time of the collision, and did _not_ have the right of way, and I should not have been ticketed for failing to yield ROW to someone who doesn't have ROW....)