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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSomething should had been done after this 1984 incident.
McDonalds massacre
http://www.utsandiego.com/san-ysidro-massacre/
This was 28 years ago.
Assault rifles in the hands of the mentally ill.
villager
(26,001 posts)...was done.
And then when the internet came along, they were all free to snark about the same things, while dismissing the growing body counts!
yardwork
(61,712 posts)maveric56
(137 posts)Ya think he might have had a hint of MI?
msongs
(67,458 posts)yardwork
(61,712 posts)All murderers are human, too. What's your point?
dogknob
(2,431 posts)They built a bigger McDonald's right next to the trolley station/border crossing.
renate
(13,776 posts)I didn't even have to click on the link to remember it--I've thought of that picture with the bike many times over the years.
Maybe if there'd been an Internet back then, or 24-hour news channels (I can't remember whether CNN was around then but I think they only ran the news in 30-minute cycles, not breaking-news-style coverage), something might have been done.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)What has shocked me even more profoundly in almost 30 years that have passed is this country's unhinged gun-humping response and ever-more strident embrace of firearm nuttery.