This shows that people snapping is the problem and not the weapon of choice. The low optimism in this country is going to lead to a lot more cases like this.

Perhaps that is the case #1, but it also shows that evil is being perpetrated everyday, all day, around the country with a variety of weapons being used. We can fill this site with a daily crime report from around the country. I get the point that the murder rate in Chicago is a national disgrace, but would appreciate more articles about that inexcusable TREND instead of a daily diet of dozens of local crime stories...

#2 raises a valid point - one that is basically left untouched by ´media´ in reporting on violence in the ´modern´ era...

Growing up in America in the latter half of the last century - the country was flat out *awash* in both guns - and ´gun´ programming. No self respecting kid was w/o a set of ´six shooters´ by the birthday of the same number - the *three* networks all carried more cowboy shoot ´em ups than commercials, and there was no shortage of WWII, Korean and early Vietnam ´weaponry´ in the hands of the public - quite a few of ´em vets...

Yet until Charles Whitman decided to go for quantity over quality - American psychos were strangely absent. One simply did *not* hear stories of ´mass killings´...

The only ´equipment change´ we´ve seen over that last half century - is an *institutionalized* devaluation of life, and an obsession with not just violence - but ´how many graphic pieces of body can we put in one movie explosion´ violence. Oddly, everyone Roy Rodgers ever shot - just died of shock. Not a drop of blood was ever shown.
Now, if the eyeballs don´t fly out, it´s not a good shoot...

It ain´t the hardware - it´s the software - as in - between the ears. We - as a society - are producing some sick puppies out there...

And the sooner we acknowledge *that* fact...

Ban knives. We all have a steak in this.
This is a fork in the road for our nation.

While this is a tragic occurrence, will the Democrats now bang their desk for "knive control" and "registration of all knives"- another article today noted 7 individuals stabbed, elsewhere - an epidemic of stabbings
that should make officials very aware that it is not only guns that kill- I´ll bet there were more traffic fatalities in the U>S> last week than death by weapons- (excluding Chicago, of course, where mayhem is the rule, not the exception ) -

The powerful knife lobby is done.
You can stick a fork in them.

Neither knives or guns kill. It is the person wielding them that kills. So, let´s ban people!

We need crazy people control. We had it for almost 200 years, then the Republicans (to save money) and the Democrats (to advance social equality) closed down the control system. No thoughtful country would do that, ergo, Americans ain´t too swift.

Another senseless assault knife killing. We must ban all assault knives with 4 or more serrations.

With a population of over 300 million, even a 0.5% potentially violent insanity level means 1.5 million possibly dangerous individuals. Individuals who could exhibit violent tendencies for 30 to 40 years of their lives. We lack the resources and the legal system to identify and hopefully treat so many individuals, especially before they harm others. Presents an enormous challenge for our country.

The 0bama & the dem pols´ statist policies result in the theft of America´s promise to, ´´...insure domestic tranquillity!´´ None of the current statist pols are addressing the immediate concerns facing American citizens, but instead that monopolistic party displays tunnel-visioned focus on their own lefty/lib blueprint for changing the USA into something-or-other unrecognizable!

Dittos, Replies #4 & #9!

Please stop the talk about banning knives. You may give our government ideas. Britain already has stupid knife laws. A female chef got arrested and charged because she was carrying her chef´s knife to work. The Brits have let the politically correct nutjobs take over their country.

Monticello, Indiana is a lovely little town, and the home of Indiana Beach on Lake Shaefer. My parents lived just outside of town for years during their retirement. Not the kind of place where murder is taken lightly.