12-06-2021, 04:14 PM
(12-05-2021, 09:11 AM)galaxy Wrote: I definitely think the fact that his parents have been charged is notable. Perhaps it's a step in the direction of viewing these shootings as a systemic problem rather than individual moral failings by lunatics (which is a shift from a 3T way of thinking to a 1T way of thinking).
If it is impossible to outlaw or greatly restrict firearms, then legal consequences (criminal or civil) might have as much of an effect.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.