Dear Dingo:
The unspeakable happened again, one human unleashed rage and fire power upon innocent victims--for no apparent reason at all. We are left wondering about motive--why can't we understand?
Answer:
Your kind is plagued by the need for easy, easy answers to hard, hard questions-- categorizing complexity into easily digestible bits. Wouldn't it be nice to reduce the human condition into some sort of Batman movie where "good guys with guns" fight "bad guys with guns" ?? Ending happily ever ! Hurrah!
But I have news for you and your bipedal friends--the brain is neither good nor evil (the audacity!) It is in fact, able to malfunction and fail just like an ordinary diseased kidney. It is also capable of carrying dark chambers and dislodged wiring.
Look around you--Perfectly "normal" people are walking around with suicidal thoughts, brain injuries, dementia, personality disorders, cognitive impairments, hallucinations or high on drugs. Ha!
Sometimes these deficits are apparent, but more often than you care to know--they are not. And (brace yourself) it could even happen to you!!--You can't simply "test" someone as "sane or insane" or "good or bad"--because mentality is fluid by nature, psychopaths hide their psychopathy (duh, that's the definition), people take drugs and brain injuries occur in the blink of an eye.
Now, if you want to "understand" a tragedy--- 1st wrap your little head around the thought that human brains are not perfect. They fail, they get damaged, traumatized and harbor deep disturbing thoughts. Firearms are dangerous because they are predictable killing machines operated by unpredictable brains. And if you can't legislate brains, might as well ban the guns....
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