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    HiballHiside

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    Apr 10, 2013
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    http://www.npr.org/2013/08/06/209378338/3-shot-dead-at-pa-town-meeting-shooter-tackled

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    Logic Brain
    • 7 hours ago

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    It appears the shooter, unemployed since an injury years before (according to the article) went from destitute to desperate to deranged. Kicked off his own property, still unemployed, he was homeless, likely hungry and chronically starved, with the sense of facing death on the streets from community ostracization. What might the outcome have been, had the community reached in to help him, rather than kicking him when he was down?

    The entire idea of community is working together, trading and balancing skills/talents/abilities, so that all do better than any single one could have done alone. It's also the basis of civilization.

    There will most certainly be community support for those who lost loved ones and those who were injured and/or psychologically traumatized in this shooting. Perhaps there will also be some consideration of how such situations might better be handled. If the shooter was aiming for suicide by cop to end to his pain, his punishment will be all the worse for merely staying alive: It will include humiliation through nationwide publicity of his case, while he sits helplessly incarcerated, undergoing psychological testing, perhaps forced psychiatric medication and treatment, on top of being jailed. And then, there are the legal ramifications...

    We know better than to corner injured, frightened animals without proper care. We should know better than to force fellow human beings into the similar situations and then expecting them to just go away. After all, where can they go?
     
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    Rugeritis
    Oct 8, 2009
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    Lancaster, PA
    HiballHiside said:
    http://www.npr.org/2013/08/06/209378338/3-shot-dead-at-pa-town-meeting-shooter-tackled

    Here is a posted comment I would like to share:

    Logic Brain
    • 7 hours ago

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    It appears the shooter, unemployed since an injury years before (according to the article) went from destitute to desperate to deranged. Kicked off his own property, still unemployed, he was homeless, likely hungry and chronically starved, with the sense of facing death on the streets from community ostracization. What might the outcome have been, had the community reached in to help him, rather than kicking him when he was down?

    The entire idea of community is working together, trading and balancing skills/talents/abilities, so that all do better than any single one could have done alone. It's also the basis of civilization.

    There will most certainly be community support for those who lost loved ones and those who were injured and/or psychologically traumatized in this shooting. Perhaps there will also be some consideration of how such situations might better be handled. If the shooter was aiming for suicide by cop to end to his pain, his punishment will be all the worse for merely staying alive: It will include humiliation through nationwide publicity of his case, while he sits helplessly incarcerated, undergoing psychological testing, perhaps forced psychiatric medication and treatment, on top of being jailed. And then, there are the legal ramifications...

    We know better than to corner injured, frightened animals without proper care. We should know better than to force fellow human beings into the similar situations and then expecting them to just go away. After all, where can they go?
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    Agreed, 100%. It's sad but the township brought some of this on themselves. They need to leave people alone and this a common issue here in PA.

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