When I was growing up in the 1950’s and 1960’s, people owned guns, yet we didn’t have the mass shootings that occur all too often now . Seems to me that it’s the culture, not the weapon. This person says it well.
What do you think about this? Why are we experiencing an increase in this particular kind of violence/law breaking? And what can we do about it? Banning weapons, whether it be firearms or knives (UK knife laws) doesn’t keep weapons out of the hands of criminals.
Politicians always go for the quick and simple, rather than addressing the real problems, it seems. I think our problems have developed gradually over the years, and won’t be solved in a minute.
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IMO, much of this can likely be traced back to the proliferation of psychotropic meds being distributed to massive amounts of people, and also the untreated mentally ill. Many of whom it seems don’t know what gender they want to be today or tomorrow.
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I would add that telling unstable people that everything that goes wrong is someone else’s fault might play a part. That and uncontrolled jealousy.
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I think there is a certain amount of aggression in human beings, some having more, some having less. I think it used to be expended in hunting for food and working hard physically. And, yes, passing on blame to others being acceptable adds to all of it.
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And, I believe that keeping humans away from the FBI would help the mass shootings since I believe they egg them on.
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The thing is, there usually isn’t just one answer. As texan59 says, psychotropic drugs and other can definitely play a part – that should be a red flag, considering how many of the most recent mass shootings involved “trans” people. I just recently read a woman recounting her experience being on progesterone for a while and she had to get off of it, because she was experiencing incredible anger and urges to do violence. Other mass shooters were on anti-depressants. Then there is the issue of things like fatherlessness and broken families that the powers that be refuse to even acknowledge.
I think another part of it is, the more gun bans there are, the easier it is for people to get guns illegally, and the easier it is for them to find soft targets. If they couldn’t get guns, they would use something else. The general public, meanwhile, who aren’t into guns tend to be woefully uninformed about them. I can especially see that here in Canada. As a child, I remember going to the Army Surplus with my brother, as he bought a WWII sniper rifle from off the rack in the middle of the other display cases. When I was in 5th grade, I remember a hunter’s safety course being offered, and the students taking it got exempted from classes. Now, most Canadians have no experience with guns outside of the movies, and have no understanding of them. If nothing else, I think that including basic gun safety classes, even for people who never intend to buy guns, right from early grades would go a long way in helping. If nothing else, it will help remove the unreasonable fear people have of them.
But there just isn’t any one answer because, as you say, it’s largely a cultural problem.
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In addition to the excellent discourse found here at Stella’s Place, another blog I follow is “House of Eratosthenes” written by Morgan Freeburg: http://www.peekinthewell.net/blog/
He too posts his thoughts on the culture, current events, and opinions about the world we share. On May 26, 2022 he offered his views on the subject of mass shootings, and more specifically, when they happen in our schools. I fund his views on the matter both interesting, and informative, so to add to this conversation I offer a link here to his essay written on that date:
http://www.peekinthewell.net/blog/before-discussing-school-shootings-any-further/
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interesting reading.
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