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Uvalde is about teen suicide, not guns

Posted on 06/02/2022 4:45:08 PM PDT by 2manydegrees

The sad case of lost lives in Uvalde belongs in the category of suicide among American adolescents. The shooter went out in blaze of something only the insane would see as glory. He was insane, of course.

Tens of thousands are going out from the same causes. They are lost with no pathway to the future. They kill themselves far too often and take others with them, perhaps by violence, as in Uvalde; but sometimes by despair on the part of their parents, siblings and friends.

It is worth noting that many of the other disturbing patterns that are saddening for me- gender angst, drugs, even tattoos and social disruption, follow the same pattern:

A child arrives at adolescence with no path open to them. They are alienated from family (if the even have one) and from the schoolmates who ought to be their friends.

Fathers are gone all-to-often. There is no pattern for manhood.

Many are single children with not older siblings and no close peers with older siblings. There is no pattern for conventional social adolescence.

Motherhood is a fearful risk rather than a fulfilling prospect. Professional dreams are urged on every girl. There is no pattern for maturity that fits easily with the hormones of adolescence.

I want to save the kids and everybody seems like they want to talk about something else.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: adolescence; drugs; suicide

1 posted on 06/02/2022 4:45:08 PM PDT by 2manydegrees
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To: 2manydegrees

I still don’t get why the murderer wanted to shoot children.

Were the kids mean to his grandma?

Guys get angry over girls or bullying or drug deals gone bad.

Why would he get mad at kids?

I think dope played a part in this.


2 posted on 06/02/2022 4:49:33 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: 2manydegrees

We now live in a world where kids are brought up en masse to think their pwecious widdle fee-fees are the center of the freakin’ universe and trump all other things. The fee-fees justify anything, by any means necessary. And you get what we’re getting today.


3 posted on 06/02/2022 4:51:58 PM PDT by Mr. Rabbit
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To: 2manydegrees

Fathers are gone...

More like fathers have been tossed away and told not to come around. Thank gynosociety and wimmin.


4 posted on 06/02/2022 4:58:05 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: blueunicorn6

People who are hurting often try to make others hurt. For many different reasons.


5 posted on 06/02/2022 4:59:36 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: 2manydegrees

“Pride goeth before destruction,
and an haughty spirit before a fall.”
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These people are all godless.


6 posted on 06/02/2022 5:01:34 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th (Get out of the matrix and get a real life.)
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To: 2manydegrees

What did the murderer’s parents teach him about The United States Of America?

Did they teach him our laws and history and customs?

If they were illegals then they couldn’t have taught him these things.

Add in that the father was gone and the mother was a drug addict.

They could teach him about American money and drugs.

This is why illegal immigration is so bad. They don’t learn and pass along information about our laws, history and customs.


7 posted on 06/02/2022 5:05:22 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer”)
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To: 2manydegrees

The Buffalo shooter intended to kill himself as well but was talked out of doing so by the cops.


8 posted on 06/02/2022 5:07:29 PM PDT by Drew68 (Ron DeSantis for President 2024)
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To: 2manydegrees

Boys are natural protectors. It’s natural for boys, men to want to serve, and protect the territory they call home, Their families, and friends.

When the imbeciles known as the Left have degraded that natural aspect of the human male by taking away, and feminizing their environment they become angry, and frustrated. A feeling of uselessness pervades this new environment, and futility becomes the order of the day.

It all comes back to the rotten, devious ambitions of the Left for power, and control over their perceived subjects.

We the people have no choice but to end their quest for power over us. No more Democrats. Get them out of our lives. Never vote Democrat.


9 posted on 06/02/2022 5:15:46 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (The only good Democrat is one that remains dead. )
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To: 2manydegrees

No....
It’s about the use of psychotropic drugs on the youth of America and the long term effects on our youth.


10 posted on 06/02/2022 5:17:39 PM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: blueunicorn6

To me it seems like he was trying to suicide by cop, and when nobody showed up and shot him, he did the one thing he could to guarantee he would get suicided - he killed a bunch of kids.

The timeline and how events played out don’t point to someone who set out to shoot up a school, but seem to point more to somebody who ended up shooting up a school.


11 posted on 06/02/2022 5:24:22 PM PDT by bone52 (Now is the time we dreamed of, and you are the hero you hoped for. Carpe diem!)
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To: blueunicorn6

He was going for fame and high score, that’s it.

He was a broken, angry, defective, jerk that lacked a belief in himself that he could achieve something through usual channels.

He took the wrong road for quick notoriety because he craved to be the center of attention and somebody—the world knows him now but he missed high score.

Kids need boundaries and the rails are being erased from society— anything goes.

It’s part of the evil and broken world that we’re living in.

Media is one of the biggest problems in all aspects of this.


12 posted on 06/02/2022 5:27:48 PM PDT by Irenic
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To: blueunicorn6
Add in that the father was gone and the mother was a drug addict.

And I knew others in that situation and they went on to become responsible, productive members of society.

I know that that environment increases the risk of bad behavior because not everyone can handle it.

However, there are things that can be done to help those in that situation. Taking an otherwise abandoned kid under your wing, at an age when it can help, can and will show him that it can be different and just knowing that someone cares can be all the motivation they need.

13 posted on 06/02/2022 8:42:51 PM PDT by metmom (...fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of our faith…..)
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To: joe fonebone

It is about drugs. Of course, drug culture and a preference for a world experienced with a drug-altered mind begins with hopelessness about the real world.


14 posted on 06/03/2022 1:20:16 AM PDT by 2manydegrees
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Psychotropic drugs are your anti depressent type..
xanax, prozac, etc.
Psychiatrists are prescribing these to kids as young as 5.
Constant pressure from the schools to use these drugs is just as constant.

All these shootings, killings, suicide by cop, etc. all have one thing in common.
The perp was either on or withdrawing from psychotropic drugs.
This is the link no one is talking about


15 posted on 06/03/2022 5:03:19 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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To: joe fonebone

Your comment about psychotropic drugs should include illegal drugs and cannabis.

Cannabis use in early adolescence can be profoundly damaging, particularly in males. The psychiatric consequences are exactly what this post is about.

I say this, knowing well that many on this board have used and even enjoyed this drug with little ill effect. Hopelessness and alienation aren’t everybody’s problem and not a universal experience.

Suicide is the problem.


16 posted on 06/03/2022 9:57:23 AM PDT by 2manydegrees
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To: 2manydegrees

The link between all of these is NOT illegal drugs, but legally prescribed psychotropic drugs.


17 posted on 06/03/2022 10:36:37 AM PDT by joe fonebone (And the people said NO! The End)
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