Advice to would-be mass shooters:

[MineralMan]

Shoot yourself first, please. That will save everyone a lot of time and trouble.

[mainstreetonce]

1. I have no problem with the death penalty in these cases.

If you are mentally healthy enough to plan such an event and then ask for a lawyer, you are competent to stand trial . If the state has a death penalty,go for it.

[unblock]

3. um, no. all kinds of wrong here.

first, being able to plan an event like this is not in any way a sign of mental health.

second, they don't all ask for lawyers, they get one anyway.

third, asking for a lawyer isn't a sign of mental health either.

not having "mental health" doesn't mean you can't function at all.


finally, the death penalty is useless and counterproductive and a recipe for corruption and tyranny no matter who becomes its victim.

it solves nothing that life in prison or mental institution doesn't solve.

[IluvPitties]

4. Why should we feed and care for a mass murderer for life?

[unblock]

7. because good governments don't kill their subjects.

he's a human being.

you can't teach people that killing is wrong by killing people.

[mythology]

2. Getting help to not want to be a mass shooter would be better

In your scenario, the shooter's family and friends would still be dealing with the suicide.

[IluvPitties]

6. Which is preferable to having another mass shooting.

[HopeAgain]

5. Anyway we look at it

with all the guns in this country, somebody is going to end up shot. Just like clockwork.