Fuck this Oregon shooter, I don't want to know his name....I don't want to know his motives.

[Augiedog]

Once again dead Americans on the doorstep of republican cowardice and NRA duplicity.

[Jim Beard]

1. This state representative of the Community College should be proud

Here is a video h
of him defending his opposition to gun control

http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/02/gun_control_sen_jeff_kruses_ta.html

[link:http://www.oregonlive.com/politics/index.ssf/2014/02/gun_control_sen_jeff_kruses_ta.html|

[mainstreetonce]

2. I want to know how he got the guns

If anyone supplied them,I want them held responsible.

[Glassunion]

10. I just read a post in another thread

Take it for what it is, a rumor, and hearsay... But, according to the post, the guns came from an unlocked police car.

Take it on the face value that it's not confirmed yet, and I neither confirm nor deny the truth of it.

[HassleCat]

3. I guess it doesn't matter

Of course, the media love, and I mean luh-uvvv, to speculate about what makes them do it, but how does that help us? We completely lack the ability to keep crazy people away from firearms, or vice versa.

[ZX86]

4. Very cynical.

Unfortunately I agree with you with the caveat Democratic cowardice as well. They all should be ashamed.

[WDIM]

5. I want to hear a plan from the President.

He speaks to us about how we need reform but how do we have reform? How will this reform prevent things like this from happening?

Do we have mental health screenings to own a gun?
What about the unregistered person to person sales?

Motives are important look at too. They should be looking for patterns and comparisons of each of these shooters. From medication and illegal drugs they are taking to internet useage.

[Binkie The Clown]

6. I was living literally 1 block from the Thurston High School shooting.

Now another one in my own neck of the woods, relatively speaking. Roseburg is not that far south of Springfield where I live. It's one thing to read about it somewhere far away. But closer to home it hits harder. I know it shouldn't, but it does. Every tragedy should matter no matter how distant. It's just human nature to feel things stronger that are closer to home, I guess.

[closeupready]

7. I want to know if he had an untreated mental illness.

I want to know how he got from a little baby to a mass shooter.

Burying your head in the sand will do nothing more than help prolong this kind of violence.

[HereSince1628]

12. You know, about 80% of people with mental illness don't seek clinical help

So there is a good chance that even if he suffered from a mental disorder it went undiagnosed.

Some of this is that many mental disorders don't significantly impair an individual's capacity to meet minimal demands of daily functioning. But even for serious mental disorders, a significant fraction of people never seek clinical help.

Of course that won't prevent people in the media from probing family and acquaintences for 'signs' in an attempt to build that narrative.

[Fred Sanders]

8. What if he were Muslim, would you want to know nothing then about the guy and his motives?

Rec the second sentence, though.

[etherealtruth]

9. Nor do I, deny him the infamy/ notoriety

[Glassunion]

11. Sadly, the media will make him famous.

He will have a first, middle, and last name. His picture will be everywhere. You'll know his name soon enough... Shit maybe even Rolling Stone will put him on the cover of he fits the right demographic.

The media loves this stuff. We will have 25x7 coverage for weeks... Unless of course there is another one somewhere else.