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Subject:RE: job-related issues From:jgarison -at- ide -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 28 Dec 2000 17:15:19 -0500
NONE of the guns were registered. He had NO police record of any kind.
And I actually heard someone say that if everyone had a gun, fewer people
would have been killed ... I don't know about you, but my cell phone won't
stay attached to my belt - let alone a .45!
Better mental health coverage might not have helped either - he was being
treated and was on several medications already.
Sh*t just happens sometimes ...
-----Original Message-----
From: Michele Davis [mailto:michele -at- krautgrrl -dot- com]
Sent: Thursday, December 28, 2000 5:11 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Cc: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: job-related issues
what exactly is the point for stricter gun laws when none of mcdermott's
weapons
were registered to him?
here! here! better mental health coverage!
David Berg wrote:
> > Most of us in the MA-NH high-tech community feel very sad -- and a bit
> > vulnerable -- about what happened in Wakefield. Many of us know or have
> > known people like McDermott. Some of us have friends who work at
> > Edgewater.
> > Could have been anyplace. Really makes you think.
>
> I see that the politicians are already starting to think...by proposing
more
> gun laws. From what little I've read of this case, I wish the knee-jerk
> reaction to an act like this would be to improve the mental health-care
> situation.
>
> Instructions for bombs, huh? Wonder if he included those in his
portfolio...
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