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Originally Posted by finnbow
Actually, it represents only 1 of the 3 criteria (motive) that a suspect must fulfill to be convicted of a crime (means, motive and opportunity).
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Correct, but the root cause is still the fact that a person made the decision that this was the way forward for them. They decided to buy, borrow, steal a weapon, they made the decision to aim that weapon at people and they made the decision to pull the trigger with the intent of killing those people. And most of these are planned not a heat of the moment passionate response. While I am all for more control it is disingenuous to not recognize that an individuals decision to kill is not a root cause therefore this is big mental health issue. The argument should be how do we identify these people early and report then, without violating HIPaa. This combined with common sense controls
MAY make a difference.
Also in a forum like this everyone is pretty much entrenched in their position and here to voice and defend it. We can have discussions like this one but no minds will be changed.
Until we "fix" the mental health side of this reasonable gun regulations will do little.
Lots-o-pieces to this issue.