<p>I’ve read that psychosis is about sensory hallucinations/delusions such as hearing voices, intrusive thoughts, smelling, tasting, seeing, and feeling things that aren’t there. I suppose that one could hear voices to the point where they believe what the voices are saying and believe that they are someone else but I thought that this fell more into other areas like multiple personalities.</p>
<p>Another example of psychosis is thinking that you have an effect on the people around you. Such as thinking that people start tapping their feet when you’re in the room, and stop when you leave. Or that you must avoid eye contact because your gaze is too intense and will hurt other people.</p>
<p>The Federal Government could require RFID chips in all guns with a program to retrofit legacy guns with fines or other punishments for anyone possessing a gun without a chip. The technological solutions aren’t that hard - but there isn’t the will for something like that. People get tracked all the time - EZ-Pass, Cell Phones, television cameras, Train and Rapid Transit passes, employee badges, license plate scanners on police cars, etc. There’s lots of data recorded but it’s hidden.</p>
<p>The way to improve society is to start punishing criminals. Current systems just does not do it to extend of what needed. Worked in every place on Earth, including NYC. So, why not?</p>
<p>Holmes’ dazed look in court yesterday=the sudden realization that now that he’s done the crime, he gets to do the time. </p>
<p>I’m not sure he ever considered the consequences after his act…maybe he was considering suicide by police?</p>
<p>For a person with his obvious brain power, I think a life sentence in solitary confinement without any chance of parole would be just perfect…a death sentence would be (almost) the easy way out. I think he would suffer more if he spent a long and lonely life with nothing else to do but contemplate…</p>
<p>Incarceration in the US worse than the stats: we have 25% of all the world’s prisoners. Our incarceration rate is almost 5x China’s and they’re still in many respects a totalitarian state.</p>
<p>My dream penalty for Timothy McVeigh used to be life without parole, and the only reading material he would have would be letters from the families of is victims, his only visitors would be the husbands and wives of the fallen and his only pictures in his cell would be of the autopsy photos. He was the worst kind of crazy American in that he was not mentally ill. I can’t say that about Holmes as of yet, but his actions sicken me as well.</p>
<p>Maybe we should use the Antisocial Process Screening Device (APSD) on kids and incarcerate or lobotomize BEFORE they do a no-no? And, I read that children of an incarcerated parent have a statisitcally significant higher likelihood of antisocial behavior. Perhaps we ought to take a hard look that them and see if they need to be “processed.”</p>
<p>A better idea would be to make prisions like they used to be: no entertainment, no meals without them tending and doing the work to grow the food, etc. That would probably help stop some crime if the consequences were harsh enough (though most likely not in this case).</p>
<p>As Hunt and Jym certainly know most crimes are plead down to less serious charges and the punishments are often lighter than they should be. The fact that we have many criminals does not really say much about it being too stringent. Just have lots of crimes done by a relativley small portion of the population.</p>
And if we use this incident as a case example neither of those would have done a thing to mitigate it and that’s the point so many people miss or ignore. Registration of a weapon doesn’t stop a person with malicious intent from using a gun maliciously either because they have no prior criminal record and go ahead and register or because they simply acquire a gun illegally - much as so many people currently acquire drugs illegally, or people in the country illegally are driving cars illegally without a valid driver licenses.</p>
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I don’t really understand his point in buying 6000 rounds since he obviously didn’t use anywhere close to that amount although I read that the apartment was strewn with a number of rounds. </p>
<p>Many people use their guns for target shooting and can easily go through hundreds of rounds in little time and therefore would buy the ammo by the case or would buy a reloader and reload their own shells after buying the components in bulk (primers, powder, hulls/brass, bullets/shot). </p>
<p>The ‘tell’ for someone doing something like this isn’t the legal purchase of a gun or the purchase of ammo because for every person who buys it to do something like this there are thousands of people who buy it not for this purpose. Let’s say one decided to ‘flag’ and ‘track’ (whatever that implies) every person who purchased guns or ammo legally. Then what? Should they all have investigators do in-depth psycho-analysis of each of the persons since that’s the only way to possibly tell if they might use the weapons maliciously? This clearly isn’t practicable and thus wouldn’t be effective. </p>
<p>Maybe a better ‘tell’ would be someone buying a bunch of body armor since that’s not something hunters or target shooters would use but OTOH many of these mass murderers don’t use it either.</p>
<p>On the body armor - I’m wondering if he used it to try to survive the event or if he used it to simply survive longer in order to do more damage?</p>
<p>I also wonder why he stopped. Has anyone heard that? Did he run out of ammo? I thought I read that he emptied the shotgun, dropped it, then used the rifle until it jammed, then used one of the handguns. But a lot of the preliminary information doesn’t seem too accurate.</p>
<p>A stat some people on this thread won’t like - apparently there’s been a 41% jump (based on number of background checks) in people buying firearms in Colorado since this shooting.</p>
<p>“A stat some people on this thread won’t like - apparently there’s been a 41% jump (based on number of background checks) in people buying firearms in Colorado since this shooting.”</p>
<p>GladGradDad, He may have bought 6000 rounds because he intended to use lots of it for target practice. He tried to join a gun club recently but was turned away. I know nothing about gun clubs but assume you can bring your own ammo?</p>
<p>Barrons:
Maybe we are letting too many criminals plead to lesser offenses, but the jails and prisons are pretty overcrowded these days. That said, I would like to have the hands and feet chopped off of the person who stole my s’s car last week. Why should that crook be able to drive it when my s no longer can? Seems fair to me.
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The car has most likey already been through a chop shop and is in pieces parts. Lets poke the eyes out of the people who did this while we are at it.</p>
At a gun club many/most shooters would bring their own ammo and guns. Some clubs also sell ammo as well as rent guns as a convenience to the shooters.</p>
<p>I heard how he wasn’t accepted immediately into that club because he seemed a bit odd to them. </p>
<p>Maybe he bought this amount of ammo because he was planning to practice more as you say although what he did doesn’t exactly require much practice - i.e. doesn’t require much of any accuracy to do what he did - any idiot could just shoot into a crowd as he did and unfortunately hit people and do damage.</p>