I'll Never Be a Fan of Gun Culture - An Example of Why
Listening to a podcast about the San Ysidro McDonald's Massacre left me angry, disturbed, and stuck on how many warning signs were ignored before James Huberty killed so many people. This absolutely crazy man took time to tell people to quiet their children because it was making him anxious. What a piece of work. He spent over an hour shooting people, and to me this was a hell of a dropped ball. Seventy-seven minutes of this man shooting people, and they finally got a shot on him only when he came to a broken window. I am not going to dump all of that on the cops; they had no idea if he was alone, and they could not see inside. The psycho coming to that window is what ended his killing spree. What keeps standing out is that there were massive signs that Huberty was dangerous. He told so many people he wanted to kill a bunch of people, and he talked about it for years. A lifetime of threats and violence against his family was ignored. He was not often in trouble in his life. He was...