I agree wholeheartedly, just like the Jesse James headstone to which I alluded yesterday before all this new crap came out. They don't need to immortalize this subhuman and give some other moron somewhere ideas.

Yeah, he was a "sick" bastard who was "mental," etc., etc., ad nauseum. But nobody can predict this stuff, even the best shrinks in the world. There are folks who are schizoid and manifested demeanor just like him who do nothing more than push shopping carts down alleys and collect bags and cans, about as harmful as butterflies. I DO think there should've been a link somehow between the judge's decision on the turd's mental state and his background check in purchasing a weapon. As Dennis Miller noted last night on O'Reilly, he should NOT have been able to walk out with a pistol in 10 minutes time. Yeah, I'm for the Second Amendment, but this was entirely too convenient. Something really needs to be done, and both sides of the gun issue need to reach some middle ground. It won't stop some nut that's truly determined to harm others, but it might snag a few in the dragnet.

I'm by no means a big O'Reilly fan, but he raised a good point on the world's perspective of us. A lot of folks are lambasting the US because of the shooting, saying we're a "gun-crazed" society, yada-yada-yada. BUT, in Iraq and other such places where innocents are slaughtered wholesale on a daily basis, hardly a word of condemnation. Anyway...