A certain class of chemical antidepressants was in play for many of the mass shooting events in the U.S. - starting or stopping these drugs shortly preceded the violent events, from Columbine to Joker-boy. The folks that weren't on the drugs weren't lone wolves nor operating in a vacuum - it has been reported that the shooters had been reported on and most investigated by the FBI prior to their crimes ("known wolves"). They had shown violent tendencies in public and/or social media, made threats and had support from their immediate families, friends or communities.
No-fly lists are not transparent (many folks have no idea how they got on one) and are very difficult to get out of (much fixing required), but terrorism investigations are more specific and must be documented, should be subject to FOIA and backed by warrants - and they should have more teeth, since clearly they are dropping suspects too soon and failing the innocents who have been gunned down so far. Keep these two sets of people from legally acquiring firearms, and a step is made in the right direction. Taking away all legally-owned guns is clearly not the answer; too many parallels to tyrants right before genocides, and the crooks are still armed anyway.
Pandora and other streamers just didn't have enough vintage and foreign music for us, and we've been working on digitizing our hundreds (and hundreds) of vinyl records gradually, and merging them into our digitized CD collection. Working out genres has been a rough process though...
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A certain class of chemical antidepressants was in play for many of the mass shooting events in the U.S. - starting or stopping these drugs shortly preceded the violent events, from Columbine to Joker-boy. The folks that weren't on the drugs weren't lone wolves nor operating in a vacuum - it has been reported that the shooters had been reported on and most investigated by the FBI prior to their crimes ("known wolves"). They had shown violent tendencies in public and/or social media, made threats and had support from their immediate families, friends or communities. No-fly lists are not transparent (many folks have no idea how they got on one) and are very difficult to get out of (much fixing required), but terrorism investigations are more specific and must be documented, should be subject to FOIA and backed by warrants - and they should have more teeth, since clearly they are dropping suspects too soon and failing the innocents who have been gunned down so far. Keep these two sets of people from legally acquiring firearms, and a step is made in the right direction. Taking away all legally-owned guns is clearly not the answer; too many parallels to tyrants right before genocides, and the crooks are still armed anyway.
Pandora and other streamers just didn't have enough vintage and foreign music for us, and we've been working on digitizing our hundreds (and hundreds) of vinyl records gradually, and merging them into our digitized CD collection. Working out genres has been a rough process though...