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Originally Posted by OldDog

I think that a lot of people feel exactly the same, which is why I find it odd that Pierce calls out people who refer to this incident as "unspeakable" or "unthinkable." Rational, good people find it difficult if not impossible to comprehend what this guy did, on several levels, and without foresight to consult a thesaurus before they speak from their hearts.

Pierce: "The country must resist the temptation present in anesthetic innocence. It must reject the false comfort of learned disbelief and the narcotic embrace of concocted surprise."

So we shouldn't be surprised. We're guilty of allowing this to happen. This display is after all, as Pierce says, "the dark heart of America."

Well okay then.

well, one problem is that people don't want to talk about it. about guns, about violence, about how things are, about race, about any of it. some think nothing can be done-but i disagree about that.
why this particular person did what he did, i don't know.
so, no, it's not a surprise, he's right. what's surprising is that there's no will to change it.

it's like the guy in colorado. i read yesterday on another site that the guys therapist called his mother, because the therapist was concerned. but, mom said it's all ok. um, what?! an oncologist wouldn't tell you you don't need cancer treatment if mom said you were ok, why do we still refuse to deal with mental health in the way we need to? and parents never want to think that junior is off, they want it to be ok. so they pretend it's ok. we had a guy here a few years ago shoot a classmate. he was a nut, all the students knew it. teachers knew it. parents did nothing til he killed that kid. now, he's crazy, and now he's in the psych ward. little late isn't it?!

and where was he getting all this 'you're taking over our country, raping our women' bs?! who instilled that in him?