Disastrous Gun Law Sparked School Shootings

Gun Watch ^ | 19 December, 2012 | Dean Weingarten

[Mrs. Don-o]

Thanks for the info. Just say NO to “Defenseless Victim Zones”.

[crosshairs]

Evil sparked the shooting. You can’t outlaw evil.

[Real Cynic No More]

The problem boils down to this: the sheeple have been influenced to stay away from any type of gun and to be afraid of them. Since few are being trained in their use, the problem perpuates itself.

[USAF80]

Just ask - why do these people never attack police stations?

Arnold did in the Terminator but he was a robot.

[kosciusko51]

From 1900 to the late 1990’s, there were no mass school shootings.

What about the Grover Cleveland Elementary School (San Diego) shooting in 1979 with the "I don't like Mondays" female perp?

[PMAS]

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[marktwain]

It was not in the school. It was from across the street, actually, from her home.

[kosciusko51]

You are correct, she wasn’t IN the school, but she TARGETED the school from her home. To say it wasn’t a mass shooting at a school is incorrect.

[marktwain]

You are correct, she wasn’t IN the school, but she TARGETED the school from her home. To say it wasn’t a mass shooting at a school is incorrect.

I understand. I made a mistake in the wording in the first sentence. I asked the moderator to correct it, but perhaps they are not allowed to do so. I noted this in post # 5.

[kosciusko51]

Fair enough. One thing about that shooting is that the perp’s MO is still strikingly similar to the other later school shootings, but it is also unusual as the perp was female.

[2CAVTrooper]

“they still march with rifles. I do not know if they are in working order, or not.”

They are more than likely non-functional “drill rifles” similar to the “rubber ducks” that’s issued at the beginning of basic training for drill and ceremonies practice.

[Rennes Templar]

“When I was in high-school, I made a rather large brass cannon as a Father’s Day present.”

Oh the horror!

[MtnMan101]

The Israeli Solution is to Love and protect their children not EAT them !!

[Huskerfan44]

I graduated in 1962 @ Neligh HS, NE. We carried shotguns in our transportation vehicles in the fall so we could hunt pheasants during the drive home (~ 8 mi.). I took 3 periods of shop my senior year (I had already completed everything else worth taking) and completely sporterized a 98 Mauser 7X57 (I believe it was a Chek CZ). This included turning down the the barrel, turning down the bolt handle, smoothing and polishing all metal, shaping, smoothing, finishing and glass bedding the stock. Result was beautiful. Used it to take a couple of whitetails. The stupidest thing I ever did was to trade it for a 55 Ford when I was 19.

[The Cajun]

I graduated in 64, somebody was always bringing their shotguns to shop class to make a new stock.
The industrial arts teacher was a master at making rifle, shotgun and cross bow stocks.
I still have my old cross bow with a self made mahogany stock inlaid with white pine.
Everybody with a pickup had a gun rack.

[NFHale]

Breaking on Fox News:

Fear of being committed may have caused Connecticut gunman to snap

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/12/18/fear-being-committed-may-have-caused-connecticut-madman-to-snap/

This, evidently, is what sent him over the edge. Mom was in the process of having him committed, and he went ballistic.

At least, that’s the story at the moment.

[sickoflibs]

RE :”This, evidently, is what sent him over the edge. Mom was in the process of having him committed, and he went ballistic.
At least, that’s the story at the moment.”

And that is lesson that should be learned, keep your guns and ammo under your control. She should have had them locked up or offsite.

Those with untreated schizophrenia typically have end of the world delusions, acute paranoia (the doctors are trying to kill me or take out my brain), beliefs that they are God, or Satan, or both. They also can have multiple personalities telling them things and they hear voices telling them things.
And they can be very dangerous to others.

I have seen it first hand and its not pretty.

[NFHale]

Imagine looking at your kid, and knowing that he’s dangerous, and knowing that you HAVE to get him committed to an institution.

You raised him from an infant...watched him grow, and watched something go horribly wrong.

What a damned nightmare...and now his actions - and her inaction - have set in motion a chain of events that could very conceivably result in civil war in this country, because of a group of psychotic politicians...Seems mental illness is a common thread through this whole stinking, rotten episode.

What a f***ed up world we’ve inherited...

[Bob]

During the height of gun control fever during the Clinton Presidency, the Congress passed the Gun Free School Zones act of 1990.

Clinton was elected in 1992 and inaugurated in January 1993. Just like he should not have been credited with the economic recovery that begain in March 1991 (the Bush Recovery) we cannot blame him for the Gun Free School Zones act of 1990. Bush should have vetoed this piece of crap.

The Gun Free Schools Act of 1990 was indeed originally enacted under George HW Bush, but was found unconstitutional in 1995. (Yes, Bush should have vetoed it in the first place.)

It was subsequently reenacted in 1996 under Clinton.

Gun Free School Zones Act—as reenacted

Originally enacted in 1990 (P.L. 101-647, Sec. 1702(b)(1))

Overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court, April 26, 1995 Re: Federalism; Congress exceeded its authority under Commerce Clause. (U.S. v. Lopez, 514 US 549)

Reenacted by Congress, Sep. 30, 1996 (P.L. 104-208)

Source: GunLaws.com pdf file