Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

The Best Explanation for Our Spate of Mass Shootings Is the Least Comforting
National Revies ^ | 5/18/2018 | David French

Posted on 05/21/2018 9:33:48 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants

click here to read article


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-68 next last
To: mountn man

police chiefs woudl do well to start citing those verses and put the blame where the blame needs to be put instead of tryign to blame guns and the second amendment


21 posted on 05/21/2018 9:59:45 AM PDT by Bob434
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 12 | View Replies]

To: marktwain

I’m using any school shooting.


22 posted on 05/21/2018 10:00:10 AM PDT by ealgeone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: ealgeone

“The writer needs to pull the historical data on this. School shootings sadly go back to the late 1700s in the US.”

But our politicians say that video games cause school shootings?

What video games were the kids playing back in 1795?


23 posted on 05/21/2018 10:02:02 AM PDT by Blue House Sue
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: ealgeone

What do you define as a “school shooting”?

A domestic incident?

A gang fight?

A suicide in the school parking lot?

A self defense incident in the street outside the school?

All those have virtually nothing to do with rampage mass school shootings.


24 posted on 05/21/2018 10:04:04 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 22 | View Replies]

To: Blue House Sue
What video games were the kids playing back in 1795?

Grand Theft Buckboard


25 posted on 05/21/2018 10:04:49 AM PDT by BlueLancer (Come Hell or High Water - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQNUp9rgjNs&feature=youtu.be)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Blood of Tyrants

Something has happened int he last sixty years. Here is an excerpt from THE TRANSLATOR TO THE READER from the old KJV. No longer in some of them.

• 5 A man would think that civility, wholesome laws, learning and eloquence, synods, and Church-maintenance, (that we speak of no more things of this kind) should be as safe as a sanctuary, and out of shot, as they say, that no man would lift up the heel, no, nor dog move his tongue against the motioners of them.
• 6 For by the first, (Civility) we are distinguished from brute-beasts led with sensuality:
• 7 by the second, (Wholesome laws) we are bridled and restrained from outrageous behaviour, and from doing of injuries, whether by fraud or by violence:
• 8 by the third, (Learning and eloquence) we are enabled to inform and reform others, by the light and feeling that we have attained unto ourselves:


26 posted on 05/21/2018 10:06:07 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: marktwain
What do you define as a “school shooting”?

I just pulled anything that was under the heading of school shooting.

27 posted on 05/21/2018 10:06:12 AM PDT by ealgeone
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 24 | View Replies]

To: Blue House Sue

Probably the same games played in 1764 during he Enoch Brown school house massacre.


28 posted on 05/21/2018 10:08:12 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 23 | View Replies]

To: Bob434
Personally, I also blame Liberals, who for generations have promoted the concept that if it feels good....DO IT.

This later morphed into promoting that God is dead.....because religion is only something ignorant, or crazy people, believe in. Since there are no eternal repercussions for anything you do, there's no reason not to follow your most base impulses.

And no matter how evil, corrupted or vicious you become, Liberals will always give you their support, and make excuses for your actions, because you are the good little monster they conspired to create.

29 posted on 05/21/2018 10:09:50 AM PDT by TXSearcher (Interesting times we live in...........)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 6 | View Replies]

To: Blood of Tyrants

“75% of school shooters claimed or left behind evidence of them being victims of bullying”

Suicidal thoughts/behavior and interest in violent media have a strong association too.

Copycat behavior and the desire for infamy have a role too.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shooting

Bad domestic situations also are a factor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States


30 posted on 05/21/2018 10:10:18 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: TXSearcher

I agree- they succeeded in kicking God out of schools, and as a result kids became angrier- more violent more disrespectful etc- and what we are seeing is a direct result of liberals and their anti-God ideology


31 posted on 05/21/2018 10:13:12 AM PDT by Bob434
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 29 | View Replies]

To: Blood of Tyrants

How about we stop labelling white boys “bad,” for being boys? And stop drugging white boys?

Sorry to bring race ito it, but black boys are not being drugged up like white boys.

And how many school shootings do black boys commit?

I saw a recent article that said pretty much ALL of the school shooters were on, or recently off (which is worse) prescription meds. The ones with the warning labels that say may cause violent episodes etc.


32 posted on 05/21/2018 10:15:29 AM PDT by Basket_of_Deplorables (Stefan Halper Stefan Halper Stefan Halper Stefan Halper Stefan Halper)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Brian Griffin

The mass murder of unrelated students by a student (or students) seemed to have begun in the 1990’s (except for the 1966 Texas shooting where the shooter murdered his wife and mother first).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States

“All fifty states in the United States have passed school anti-bullying legislation, the first being Georgia in 1999.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-bullying_legislation


33 posted on 05/21/2018 10:30:10 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: Basket_of_Deplorables

“over 87% of the secondary school shooters were
not on psychiatric medications at the time of their attacks”

https://schoolshooters.info/sites/default/files/psychiatric_medications_3.1.pdf


34 posted on 05/21/2018 10:36:30 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: Blood of Tyrants; mylife; Joe Brower; MaxMax; Randy Larsen; waterhill; Envisioning; AZ .44 MAG; ...

RKBA Ping List


This Ping List is for all things pertaining to the 2nd Amendment.

FReepmail me if you want to be added to or deleted from the list.

More 2nd Amendment related articles on FR's Bang List.

35 posted on 05/21/2018 10:39:40 AM PDT by PROCON (Man-made climate change is failed science based on fraudulent data = Climate Scientology)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Blood of Tyrants

Roughly 30 years ago, the gun free schools legislation passed Congress. Since then, school shootings have gone up THREE FOLD.


36 posted on 05/21/2018 10:58:52 AM PDT by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Psalm 73

And what else has picked up speed since 1999? The Internet and especially social media and the desensitization of killing. Kids can look on the Internet and view violent videos any time. Anyone who denies the connection has their head in the sand.


37 posted on 05/21/2018 11:05:29 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: Iron Munro

Group think and mob mentality. Social media is spreading mob mentality.


38 posted on 05/21/2018 11:06:29 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 10 | View Replies]

To: Basket_of_Deplorables

Truthfully, black boys are much more likely to grow up to be murderers than white boys. In Chicago 80% of murders go unsolved and mass shootings are almost a daily occurrence (4 or more people shot) so it is highly likely that there are many blacks who commit multiple shootings before they are caught.


39 posted on 05/21/2018 11:11:19 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: taxcontrol

That isn’t the root cause. Look deeper. Look at the rise of social media and the “Look at me!” generation that determines their self-worth off the number of “likes” their post on social media gets. And if they aren’t liked well, they are just as satisfied to get attention from negative publicity.


40 posted on 05/21/2018 11:15:24 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Conservatives love America for what it is. Liberals hate America for the same reason.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 36 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-6061-68 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson