Hey Vlad,
Doing OK and hope you are same. I understand your point of view and if I believed that if, as a society, we could live life without guns, I would probably lean towards that view myself. Unfortunately, I just don't think it's realistic to believe that people will not have guns.
This case is certainly different then the norm. I'd imagine that more was going on here then just an elderly guy getting upset over somebody texting. I'm going to guess that this person probably had some medical issues that we know nothing about. I'm guessing that this is probably what lead him to doing what he did. Certainly not an excuse but probably the reason this happened the way it did.
The underlying aspects of this are really fear. Fear drives a lot of why people own guns. To remove that fear, you have to be able to remove the threat of violence and that's just not going to happen anytime soon, if ever. It's hard wired into us over millions of years of evolution. Hard to fight nature where that is concerned.
Thanks buddy - things are well enough, though NYC isn't getting any warmer or cheaper and can't think of anywhere else i'd rather live so I have that to deal with
Given your a mod please feel free to delete this if it is construed as political (though I do miss those crazy days on CZ)
Its interesting in that I work in very international firm -just within earshot of me are americans, Indians, cuban guy, chinese, russian, russian-chinese, ecuador, australia, italian, british, french, japanese, iranian, ukranian, sri lankan, and on and on - and first generation americans from some of those places, like myself being indian. Its so interesting to hear people from all over and their take with the USA and guns....so foreign to them, regardless of what other nonsense might be happening in their neck of the woods. I know some of them have mentioned how people sometimes are scared to travel here because of that (you know all the gun violence shown on the news skews the impression).
Sadly I think you're right - between the fact they are already out there in mass numbers and the ridiculously easy access - its not turning around anytime soon. That's why a school shooting as non "Front page news" is so disheartening.
Yeah and for sure something more is going on if someone is willing to end a life over something so trivial...and that's the scariest thing of all!
