Now obviously, the death of 12 innocent people in a shooting spree is a massive tragedy. But does it really require 100 detectives to be assigned?
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The facts are pretty clear: a guy shot 23 people, 12 of them fatally, then shot himself. There's no doubt about who committed the crimes- and he's in the morgue. The long and the short of it is, a massive cunt killed 12 people, for no good reason.
I fail to see what's going to be achieved by assigning 100 detectives to the case, beyond eliciting random gossip for the tabloid press. We will never know what was going through the killer's mind, because the last thing to go through it was a bullet from his own gun.
This is of course an unbearable tragedy for the families of the victims- not only have they lost a loved one, they can never know why, because the killer can never tell. And 'justice' can never be done, because the killer can never face a court of law.
And so, as far as I'm concerned, case closed. Bear in mind that 12 people dead is a fraction smaller than the per-person average of the four 7/7 bombers. There was, as I remember, considerable investigation into that tragedy too, and the conclusion was basically that they too were a gang of massive cunts, and that there wasn't much to be done about it.
These things happen. People die randomly every day- 8 people per day on average die in road accidents in this country, and there's rarely any 'justice' for their families, just the long gnawing pain of bereavement. A grown up society should just accept that pointless death is a tragic fact of life, and move on.
And, for reasons of full disclosure, no I don't own a gun or a shotgun, or a licence for either. But I can see where this is heading, and I don't like it.
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7/7 bombers. There was, as I remember, considerable investigation into that tragedy too, and the conclusion was basically that they too were a gang of massive cunts, and that there wasn't much to be done about it.
ReplyDeleteErm no actually, thats quite the opposite of what the investigation found, and in fact led to far better communication between security services, and knowledge sharing, intelligence gathering etc which has actually prevented every single attack since and seen over 100 people jailed before blowing up.
Still, I when do facts get in the way of a liberal?
I think perhaps Angry Liberal (CB) should have run the 9/11 investigation "Day 1 - Case Closed, just a bunch of cunts...being cunts with planes"
ReplyDeleteOr the JFK shooting "Day 1 - Case Closed, just a cunt, maybe a bunch of cunts, who knows, being cunts with rifles, nothing to see or learn here, move on".
That insouciant nonsense is why liberals don't run the world. Thankfully.
I stand corrected. Clearly then, we'll never have another spree killing ever again, now the authorities have got their act together.
ReplyDeleteTwat.
Of course we'll have another spree killing, next time there's a tory government, happens every time under them (look it up) but there is no harm in actually investigating properly what happened, even if it can't be prevented.
ReplyDeleteQuimbo.
We can't prevent global warming either, but you lot insist on putting a load of time and effort (not to mention taxes and general expense) into looking into it, so what's the difference? Lets scrap all earthquake research, as after all, there's fuck all we can do about them.
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