Fun fact most of the heads of Fortunte 500 companies are run by people who would be classified as sociopaths, the country is being run by the least empathetic.
“Oh hi there you haven’t actually committed any crimes yets but we’re going to treat you like a second class citizen because you’ve flagged up a few signs on our test”
Yeah fuck that.
Like the NFL protests people like that won’t take a stand until their pockets are threatened.
If people express enough concern and back it up by not going to Vegas you can bet they’ll th to fix that by changing laws. Vegas did it twice concerning tourism. Once to make it more family friendly to get more dollars, then back again when the money wasn’t coming in like it was expected.
There’s more than enough evidence to come up with tests, from past experiences a a base, that would cause people to be on a longer waiting list, or even banned, if they met the criteria.
Projecting empathy for individuals who don’t really give a damn about anyone but themselves and are callously manipulative is ironic. You do realize we already have facilities specifically designed to house said individuals. Prison. 80% of male inmates and 65% of female inmates have antisocial personality disorder. So we essentially wait until they rob, rape and murder before we lock them up. They also have a shallow understanding of consequences, lack remorse, and are highly impulsive.
Even when prison psychologists tried to make inmates with sociopathic tendencies more empathetic they realized that their sessions only made then better at mimicking and manipulating.
And it’s actually not that hard to screen people for psychopathy since there are neurological markers (or lack thereof) in the prefrontal cortex and amygdala responsible for feeling empathy. I’d rather live in a world that doesn’t have psychopathic nurses, kindergarten teachers, “for the people” politicians, lawyers, judges and yes, gun owners.
One of the issues with Sociopaths is that they tend to be incredibly driven, so running over people to get what they want isn’t an issue.
All you said is so true.
My wifes close friend is a child psychiatrist and she dealt with this one kid who tried to kill his family by burning down the house.
He had no remorse for anything and she felt the longer she talked with him, the more he learned and could manipulate others. He would be dangerous to put amongst other kids in juvie cause he would manipulate them to do other bad shit.
She said that he mentioned how he put gasoline on the doors to make sure running away would be impossible. So fucked up the stuff she hears.
There all kinds of crazy loop holes and I can’t touch on them all, but like you can’t ship a while AR 15 Rifle (civilian version of the M16) in the mail, but you can ship individual parts.
You can own but not buy certain guns, but there nothing prohibiting buying all the parts to said gun. You can also “inherit” guns you can’t normally buy.
Also Gunshows don’t require the normal background checks buying a gun from a Brick-n-mortar store has to do.
You can 3D print more than just the rifle stock and forwards hand grip, there people who made the whole gun from 3D printed parts, with only a few small critical components not being 3D printed like springs, a few screws, and so on.
he lost 160,000 gambling and gave 100k to this philipino chick.
not for nothing but i have a feeling either one or both things caused him to stress out.
or…maybe it had nothing to do with it since he has been at that hotel room since early september, tho who knows if he had those weapons costing over 65k there or got them into the room more recently. he also had 7 star top status at the hotel. invitation only suite.
saddest thing of all. is im still poor. 
Thread got really active while I was asleep. Wow.
As I understand, Nevada gunshows require background checks to be performed by an FFL holder, similar to New York and Cali.
So perhaps he got them out of state.
Paddock bought 33 weapons this last year:
Gun show loopholes are in many states. I think WA is one of them. Never checked it out for myself to see how shady it can get. I’ve just heard that you can essentially buy damn near anything you want out of a seller’s car. I own firearms but not really a hobbyist. If you have the cash, you can get damn near anything. This guy had money, highly doubt losing 160K lead him to do such horrible thing.
I recall you brought this up before and also added that in the past when sociopathic individuals were within a community, if they weren’t being helpful, they were practically left alone or exiled if you will for the good of the community. Over time as we have progressed through history, we have been slowly allowing these dangerous people to thrive via other means believing that anyone can be reformed. Social media amplifies this more by giving them a voice others of their ilk can relate to.
Background checks wouldn’t have done anything about this unless MAYBE you institute a hard limit on how many weapons can be bought in a period of time. The problem is weapons that technically meet the guidelines but can easily be modified into something more dangerous. He could have still killed people with a handgun, but we wouldn’t be looking at 50+ dead and 200+ wounded from the 32nd floor of a hotel overlooking the venue.
With a Enough cash you can legally get some serious Military Infantry hardware.
Nobody here is advocating for the removal or relaxation of gun laws. Not even me.
Gun laws are fine and necessary. But guess what: Laws didn’t stop this, and nobody has put forward any plausible law that might have prevented it.
To provide police, military and courts.
Of which you have provided none.
If you want to reduce deaths, start looking at “why” people do things like this, not how.
Double post
So. Wouldnt it make more sense to get a gun then to ban it then?
No mention of banning guns. Still argues againt banning guns…fucking die already please.
Yes, good memory. Inuits had a long-standing tradition of exiling anyone with selfish tendencies. Fortunately for them, when you have only modest amount of individuals in a camp they were easier to spot.
When your survival in a harsh, unforgiving landscape depends on mutual corporation, it’s important to remove those parasites as soon as possible.
When I look at the past 20th century, America and the world has only created systems and technology for them to thrive. Look at the financial, legal, corporate and political sectors. We wonder why these problems keep happening, why anyone would create financial systems to fail, or laws that work against our citizen’s interests, or have pertinent information that proves defendant’s innocence but still prosecute to keep a perfect record. It’s been staring in our faces the whole time. I’m not even going to get into the world changers like Hitler, Mao, and Stalin responsible for countless millions of deaths collectively.
And like @odin said regarding that creepy kid, sociopaths and psychopaths are notorious for getting other people to behave like them due to their fearlessness, manipulativeness and charm. They’re the corporate CEOs on the top, and the gang leaders on the bottom. So it’s not long until they create an invisible set of antisocial bylaws for modern society to follow even after they’re gone.
Going back to Stephen Paddock- he was a son of a convicted criminal psychopath, a highly motivated self-made multimillionaire with a gambling addiction, who Illegally modified his cache of guns, and then premeditatedly shot at a concert murdering 59 people.
All those facts by themselves wouldn’t lead to anything concrete, but together they pretty much spell out the underlying cause for such an inexplicable and coldhearted decision by a seemingly benign individual.