re: How one can even start to discuss this shooting w/o accepting the following FACTS?

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I don't think man is naturally more evil today than he was 40 years ago.

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Perhaps not, but I know that back in my day, all the way back into the 40s and 50s, evil was not tolerated like it is today. A kid that got out of line got his arse whipped. Nobody made up reasons why 'it wasn't his fault - he was bullied, etc" Kids were expected to take the 'slings and arrows of outrageous insult' and go on about their business. Nobody gave you any attention just because someone 'hurt your feelings' - you were told 'sticks and stones may break your bones but words will never hurt yuo.'

I cannot even relate to all the mass hysteria in the past decade about some stupid WORD that someone was TRIGGERED by.

Guns were everywhere - I kept a .22 rifle in my truck going to school. So did all my friends. We were taught from the earliest moment that guns were dangerous - that they were always to be treated as though they were loaded. Nobody had any illusions about how dangerous they were.

Families were the backbone of the society. I never knew anyone who came from a 'broken home' -

What is at the bottom of all this crap is the 50 f'n YEARS of the DEMOCRAT party eating away at all the concepts of family and individual honor that has been the fundamental support structure of the American experience. The DEMOCRAT party is the responsible agent for encouraging kids to grow without strict moral guidance - the them, anything goes and it is always somebody else fault.

"Progressive" policy has nurtured this dysfunctional society.

Man will always be evil. There is just different degrees.

I don't think taking guns away makes one less evil. I mean, the person still has the evil thoughts regardless of the tool they use to put the evil thought into practice.

Give an evil man any avenue and he will commit evil regardless of laws put in place.

After all, criminals don't follow laws.