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They peaked in 1970 and then began a downward trend until the mid 2000s when they began to tick back up.
2014 was the second highest year (IIRC) for school shootings.
We need to repeal the child labor laws, let kids drop out at 14 and work if they want to, and stop trying to teach them so much that they don't want or need.
When conservatives take back our country from the idiot libs, school shootings will cease.
When we treat schools as seriously as we do courthouses, airports and federal buildings, school shootings will cease.
[[first questions we ask is the simplest and also the hardest to answer.]]
It’s only hard for those who are in denial- liberal progressiveness is to blame- period- liberal progressiveness makes everyone a victim- causes everyone ot feel that THEIR feelings are more important than anyone else’s- that their opinion is the only one that matters- liberal progressiveness causes young people to lose all respect for their elders and authority, and even their fellow students/friends
liberal progressiveness is a terrible disease, and we are seeing the result but the left are trying to blame everything else but the actual cause- liberal progressiveness!
Fascinating theory - like a slow-motion anarchic riot in process since 1999. And picking up speed.
Liberals have normalized extreme hate and violence.
(ANTIFA, the Berkely anti-speech riots, etc.)
Now there is a big surprise that people are acting out their hate with extremely violent acts.
"Mass shootings" or mass school shootings?
For the latter, I'd say that teenage girls don't give teenage boys ribbons of participation when they reject their dating advances.
-PJ
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:
“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
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.
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Roughly 30 years ago, the gun free schools legislation passed Congress. Since then, school shootings have gone up THREE FOLD.
What constrains human behavior? Morality.
Remove morality and you remove those constraints.
Worse, replace an absolute morality with a meaningless “if it feels good, do it” mindset and what do you expect.
Maybe slaughtering those kids felt good to the Santa Fe Scumbag. Who are we to judge?
riots were started by people with a threshold of zero
What if our current culture is almost universally suppressing males? And what if the younger males are now struggling to cope with a society that consistently tells them they are not as valued as their female counterparts? What if the public schools are consciously and subconsciously suppressing the male spirit?
What if there is a dearth of male role models in the home? That is, boys (children) with no father and no male role model and the strong male discipline through young life?
I'm not seeking to excuse actions, but what if society, i.e., the Left, has now so diminished the worth of males and of "masculinity" that the weaker spirited among us are the first to emotionally collapse and lash out.
This article points out that in 8 of 12 cases the shooters made videos and social media posts that, seems to me, exaggerates and distorts a sense of masculinity. As if to almost lash out in extreme rebellion saying that they are males, are in control of "something" and who, now after being invisible, must now be reckoned with through the force of their action.
“Some behavioral side effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) antidepressants have been known for a long time. Since the introduction of these drugs in the 1990s, publications have regularly reported behavioral side effects in children and adolescents, including excitation, motor restlessness, social disinhibition, and above all self-injurious ideation and behavior.” The first mass school shooting was 1999 Columbine.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/17028514/
My uncle walked to school with his rifle in the early 1960s, when he was on the high school rifle team. He had ammo with him. The rifle and the ammo stayed together, in his locker. Ditto for every other member of his team. Pretty much ditto for every other similar team in his school district.
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot - the school district was the NYC school district.
NO ONE shot anyone else, despite the ready availability of loaded (or easily loadable) rifles. My uncle told me why - because, he said, we were more worried about what our fathers would do to us if we got in ANY trouble with the guns, let alone shot anyone.
You see, there was responsibility taught, and accountability for one’s actions. Also, most kids (yes, even in NYFC, believed in God, and therefor in the ultimate accountability. If they had a problem with Johnnie Smith, then they and Johnnie would have a fistfight and probably shake hands afterwards.
The liberals and Leftists took God out of the classroom and the public square; the liberals and Leftists took away the very idea of personal responsibility; the liberals and Leftists took away corporal punishment from not only the schools but also from the home (how many kids nowadays threaten to call CPS if Mom or Dad threatens to swat their spoiled little behinds?); the liberals and Leftists made taking psychotropic drugs the norm among children; and now the liberals and Leftists are SURPRISED that so many kids are acting like spoiled, rotten little bastards and acting out their fantasies?
Bring back God, corporal punishment and personal responsibility, and take away the psychotropic drugs from 95% of those school-aged kids who take them, and you’ll cut school shootings by at least 95%. Add to that better security for those few incidents that might occur, and you will virtually eliminate casualties.