Well said. One reason I'm for government spending tax dollars on social support programs. One might say it's a waste of our tax dollars & inefficiency of the programs makes it pointless, but it'll come back to bite us if we don't invest in the poor in a way that helps them be more productive and healthy members of society. You can't just ignore the problem, or else our tax dollars go to paying their outrageous medical bills down the road. Not to mention crime.. There's no magic bullet to fix everyone's problems but I wish we did more to get things right. Every family that grows up in a bad neighborhood, hungry, poor diet, drugs or with a poor education will be much harder and more expensive to deal with later on.
We can't just throw money at the issue either. There needs to be more comprehensive approaches to lead to better outcomes. Seems like that's too complicated for the government to tackle. Instead we're led to believe that one side wants to give out money and the other side wants to let the poor suffer & assume they'll change their lives if they don't get those handouts. Neither would work, but that's not the only choice we have.
Every time something like this happens I'd like to think, "This is it. This is the thing where folks will finally see what human garbage he is." But the argument will be how unfair it was he was taped or how the tapes are fake.
Indeed, it would be great start to tackle the reasons medical expenses in the US are so outrageous. $170 for a styrofoam cervical collar, $90 for one litre of sterilized salt water, etc...
They should be able to quickly find where/who purchased this gun since all gun purchases and transfers are REQUIRED by law to be registered with the government. Unless, that is, registration of firearms isn't a deterrent to illegal transfer and acquisition of a gun.
