Posted on 05/22/2018 3:43:28 PM PDT by Kaslin
One telling detail keeps escaping the men and women of words who would end school shootings by one expedient or another: gun control, better security, the arming of teachers, more careful vetting of potential gunmen and so forth.
The detail of which I speak: We didn't use to endure this horror. It didn't happen.
The urgent question that flows from this detail: Why not?
Well, to start with, because things were different, prior to the shooting fests, which break so many hearts and generate so much despair.
Right, yes -- but different in what way?
I will take a crack at this: Our culture (as we have come to call the circumstances of daily life) was cooler, calmer, less emotional, more orderly than it has become since then -- which is not the same as saying pre-massacre culture (what a term) was cool, calm and unemotional. It was not. Those personally familiar with that culture know better, I hope, than to indulge in nose-honkings over the joys of the past.
Still, massacres, explosions of personal rage, were rare and generally connected with mental disorder, such as the case of Howard Unruh, the World War II vet who went wild in New Jersey in 1949, gunning down people on and off the street, including a barber and his 6-year-old customer. There were guns enough out there, no doubt; nevertheless, few thought of using them in today's ghastly, almost customary, way.
We didn't use to endure this horror. It didn't happen (or, save for Howard Unruh, hardly ever).
One telling detail keeps escaping the men and women of words who would end school shootings by one expedient or another: gun control, better security, the arming of teachers, more careful vetting of potential gunmen and so forth.
The detail of which I speak: We didn't use to endure this horror. It didn't happen.
The urgent question that flows from this detail: Why not?
Well, to start with, because things were different, prior to the shooting fests, which break so many hearts and generate so much despair.
Right, yes -- but different in what way?
I will take a crack at this: Our culture (as we have come to call the circumstances of daily life) was cooler, calmer, less emotional, more orderly than it has become since then -- which is not the same as saying pre-massacre culture (what a term) was cool, calm and unemotional. It was not. Those personally familiar with that culture know better, I hope, than to indulge in nose-honkings over the joys of the past.
Still, massacres, explosions of personal rage, were rare and generally connected with mental disorder, such as the case of Howard Unruh, the World War II vet who went wild in New Jersey in 1949, gunning down people on and off the street, including a barber and his 6-year-old customer. There were guns enough out there, no doubt; nevertheless, few thought of using them in today's ghastly, almost customary, way.
We didn't use to endure this horror. It didn't happen (or, save for Howard Unruh, hardly ever).
We used to teach kids that life was hard and yuo had a Moral Code you needed to hew (to).
The liberals said “do what you want, feel what you want, act on it as you wish, there are no absolute morals.”
No Morals=Human Life is worthless=school shootings.
There are no more guns available now to adolescents than 20 years ago.
This and all the other shootings are at the doorstep of the liberals.
brought in tens of millions of 3rd worlders ...
what could possibly go wrong?
In government schools you can teach kids about anal sex, but thou shalt not teach them the Ten Commandments.
We used to teach gun safety in schools. Then Biden push for his gun free school zones law. Now 30 years later, school shootings are up THREE FOLD.
I think the creation of ADD by the pharmaceutical industry and the massive push to diagnose and drug children has created this problem. Also, the constant display and celebration of gratuitous violence on TV, movies, and video games has had a dulling, brain washing affect; inuring us to tribal levels of violence.
The family unit is a dead concept. Sally has 2 mommies etc. school is a babysitter we pay our taxes to watch/raise our kids. Any excuse is a good excuse if it ain’t me. No ones kid suck a deserve to be disciplined. God is Darth Vader. Get a grip folks we are responsible for this. Crap. Own it fix it. MAGA.
And now I get to quote one of my favorite observations from Solzhenitsyn.
More than half a century ago, while I was still a child, I recall hearing a number of older people offer the following explanation for the great disasters that had befallen Russia: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.Since then I have spent well-nigh fifty years working on the history of our Revolution; in the process I have read hundreds of books, collected hundreds of personal testimonies, and have already contributed eight volumes of my own toward the effort of clearing away the rubble left by that upheaval. But if I were asked today to formulate as concisely as possible the main cause of the ruinous Revolution that swallowed up some sixty million of our people, I could not put it more accurately than to repeat: Men have forgotten God; that’s why all this has happened.
Men used to be in charge.
And how did that happen? The Godawful 14th amendment. I believe the problematic part of it is called the "incorporation" doctrine.
How do you remember (or whatever) God?
Everything is different now. And nothing is better.
Millenials like to say that things are better - we have access to more information, more news, more viewpoints but that’s not what I’m talking about.
Worldwide young humans are simply terrible people.
Fake ADHD nonsense and SSRI drugs + a former Nation that is now largely just a landmass inhabited by people with nothing in common = nihilistic rage and self hatred.
Then on top of it alk, we make instant celebrities out of the losers when they do this.
The title of this thread struck me as odd; I had to look up the difference between ‘didn’t use to’ and ‘didn’t used to’.
I never really learned grammar or all of that ‘diagramming of sentences’ in school; I just picked stuff up by a kind of osmosis. But it seems to be a gray area:
https://www.quora.com/Which-sentence-is-grammatically-correct-Didnt-used-to-Or-Didnt-use-to
(I would have gone with ‘didn’t used to’; so I guess I’m ‘acceptable if a bit odd... ;-)
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You will have to elaborate on what you are asking me. "God" is a metaphor for all the Judeo-Christian teachings that obligate a populace to control it's own behavior.
It seems self explanatory to me.
We used to teach even grade school children the difference between “Use” and “Used”.
what a Moroon; I’m not even going to read an article by someone with such a piss-poor grasp of the English language.
If I want Ebonics I’ll read something besides Clownhall.
Actually, most school mass shooters have been White, as far as I know.
Why include the one proven method that Israel has been using for 40+ years, and that is arming the teachers? They are not having school shootings in Israel. Why are liberals fighting so hard to keep from implementing what really works?
“school shootings are up THREE FOLD.”
You need to cut back on your manic viewing.
Also, teach these teen numbskull boys that yes, attractive girls do have the right to reject them, whether in public or private, without losing their lives over it.
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