He was coming undone , that much is clear. Sometimes surly, sometimes seemingly unhinged, he was unpredictable in a way that made fellow students community college class want to leave the room .
Jared Loughtner was a 22 year old college dropout who tried to assassinate Representative Gabrielle Giffords of Arizona on Saturday morning. Did no one see this coming even after the way Jared was behaving in class, how did he ever get his hands on the Gun ?? . America as a country has never been able to protect its stringent rules for buying guns wherein in Switzerland every male is supposed to own a gun and even though it may seem irrational gun crime is virtually non existent . In Jared's case it wasn't a case of Gee, no one saw this coming but how is that possible even when the teachers were afraid of him ?? Maybe the more important factor is even if people saw it coming what would they do about it or who do they call ? The whole thing speaks to the need for some coordinated way to detect such threats .
Even after a massacre in 2007 at Virginia Tech educational institutions and offices are seldom set up to handle such potential threats even when the warning signs are blatant and numerous which which was building up before the shoot out in Tuscan . The American Gun control system would be better off replicating Switzerland as it has come out as one of the most advanced nations in hand gun laws. In states like Arizona where you don't need to possess a license to buy a gun it only goes to show that frivolity does exist in the mind of the judicial system which should be in fact rampant at controlling Gun Sales.
In the days leading to the shoot out Loughtner was acting even more bizarre that the faculty and students believed he was mentally ill or on drugs, there were a series of disruptions in the classroom in which he unnerved the professors and fellow students, including one occasion when he insisted the number 6 actually was number 18 . Many students have described him as a person with a very dark personality. When he was suspended from college he made a bizarre video and posted it on you tube linking the college to genocide and the torture of students.
I am delving into the characteristics of Loughtner because it is unbelievable that in a state like Arizona no one needs a license to buy a weapon and still there has been no extra precaution taken when it comes to Gun Control Laws . Any government with the right mind would have made a certain set of laws to be followed but they haven't really gone through it leaving many a loopholes in the system has made it possible for mentally deranged people to also possess weapons of destruction.
The direction of any country doesn't depend only on its external affairs policy or its central governing system, what matters more is also the policies that should be molded for the security of its citizens which in this case America has been most short sighted of !
Arizona has officially become the craziest and the most dangerous state in the US and lately, has become what Afghanistan is to the world with the uncontrolled state of affairs. USA's continued efforts to make itself or rather, maintain its global supremacy has thrown its internal state of affairs to rot- seething with such hysterical acts that its own efforts toward global peace is attenuated. It is imperative that USA now looks at its rotting internal security system and review its laws and control system.
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