Quote From: ukmike
Here in the UK we do not have the right to bear arms, even Police Officers here do not carry gun routinely. The only officers allowed to carry firearms are highly trained and in Specialist units. I was a Police Dog handler K9 unit, I had no access to firearms.
We had an incident in Dunblane Scotland a few year back, a youth who belonged to a gun club opened fire in the local school he killed and injured some children, Our British Tennis star Andy Murray was a pupil at the school and he still shows problems from that time.
Our Government banned all citizens from owning guns even if they belonged to gun clubs, There has not been a problem again since. That is not to say that we got rid of the reason why someone would want to carry out such an awful act, I believe the reasons in our society still exist. If you disenfranchise people for long enough they will snap and react as you have seen in your shootings at US schools.
So you have at least two things to deal with, Gun ownership and the bigger problem of how individuals are being treated by the community. The later is more difficult because perhaps we do not like to own up to the fact that somehow we are allowing things to happen in our schools like bullying, physically and physiologically. By the fact we focus on the winners and completely sideline those less capable.
We do not get the Dr.Phil show live here and I would be interested to hear what the good Dr has to say about the causes and the ways we can end the problems.
Dr. Phil talks more sense than any man I know, if he cannot help then what chance do the rest of us stand to solve the problem.
They are trying to profile individuals who would commit such crimes. First they tried to say that all had the same type of personality,and then later in the show said they did not. Obviously the police Dept's can not profile a likely killer, or that is the type they hire in the US because they would not think twice about killing another human. (only my opinion.)
I think the ban of gun ownership is a solution. Also, banning most police officers from possessing a weapon is an excellent idea. No matter how guilty an officer is in this area, or what they have done, they make up stories to CYA and every police officer will lie and back him up. They are never arrested for any crimes they commit. One had stolen drugs from his police evidence locker, and was caught by CNET dealing the drugs. He was taken to his own police agency and told to resign his position, but was never arrested for his criminal actions