School Shootings and Nothingness

Townhall.com ^ | February 18, 2018 | Steve Soukup

[ronnie raygun]

I will don my tin foil hat, as the criminal DNC, OBAMA HILLARY investigation is on fire and getting hotter by the day we experience this event. odd. that the very agency the FBI is accused of dropping the ball, coincidence? seems like the media narrative needs a direction change since collusion is found to be fake like their reporting

[chris37]

Did I say it was the victims’ fault? Pretty sure I didn’t.

However, if you think that what I described doesn’t occur in schools all day every day, then you are a fool.

If you don’t believe that kids are cruel, just look at Nikolas. He’s quite cruel, is he not?

[aquila48]

“Make them earn it.”

Exactly how? Aren’t we born with freedoms and inalienable rights? In other words we don’t have to earn freedoms,we are born with them, and only force can take them away.

“This country was founded by men who would have been appalled by the idea that anyone 18 and older who is capable of breathing on a mirror would have the right to vote.”

True, but that train left the station long time ago. What do we do now?

[Bookshelf]

The USA has a population of 330 million. About 200 million are adults, 100 million males. I would think that one out of one hundred males is a sociopath (likely even more). Thus, it is a wonder we don’t have more of these incidents.

[ilovesarah2012]

Was Cruz disaffected?

[chris37]

What do you think?

Is what he did the actions of a normal, well adjusted, socially accepted person?

[chris37]

I know a narcissistic sociopath right now. 39 years old. The man is a total fraud and an absolute nightmare.

He would easily be capable of something like this, and then praising himself afterward.

His MO is different though. he is more of a cult leader type who seeks out weak willed people to manipulate for various purposes that benefit himself.

The man is scary as s*** though, no joke. As dangerous as they come.

[Hardastarboard]

Dennis Prager has a theory - the Germans are always wrong. Based on some of their philosophers (Heidegger, Nietzsche, Marx, and I would throw in Freud, even though he was technically Austrian), he may have a point. The ideas of these four, and I’m sure there are others I’m forgetting, have had a horrendous, murderous influence on mankind over the last 150 or so years.

[IrishBrigade]

‘For our part, we think they’d be better off reintroducing mandatory prayer into schools.’

gonna take a lot more than that to work any kind of cultural change...it seems we’ve spawned a generation of the most powerful and least caring among us, who are accustomed to reveling in their iconoclasm; and in order to make their unique mark, find themselves expressing their social maladies by upping the violence quotient...

[IrishBrigade]

‘If there is no God then all is permitted.’

radical Muslims fervently believe in the Abrahamic God; I’ve not noticed much restraint in their barbarity due to that belief...

I don’t think threats of future fire and brimstone are going to stop a young man willing to die at the hand of immediate antagonists...

[ilovesarah2012]

He reportedly crazy for quite some time. Cops called repeatedly. Autistic. Under mental health care. Medicated. Expelled. But I bet it was all because other kids were mean to him.

[Pontiac]

Allah is not the god of Abraham

http://bible.ca/islam/islam-moon-god-hubal.htm

[chris37]

You seem to have a bug up your rear end about something. You also don’t seem to have much of a clue about how kids are. I never said it was their fault. I wonder how it came to be that he wanted to kill all of them, and then acted to do so. I’m sure it was totally random.

[ilovesarah2012]

I used to live in Broward. I have a friend whose kids graduated from Douglas. This idiot should have been locked up a long time ago.

[Political Junkie Too]

I had a post in early 2001 called "My Theory On Why The School Shootings Are Occuring." Sadly, all my posts prior to September, 2001 were lost in an FR crash/rebuild.

The summary of my post from 17 years ago is this:

1. Schools, due to budget cuts and new social justice curricula, were doing away with physical education, band, recess (some schools banned playing tag and dodgeball), playground equipment, and other activities designed to expend youthful energy.
2. Students were entering puberty and adolescence, their bodies were growing rapidly, their hormones were changing, and they needed outlets during the day to expend excess energy. These classroom breaks were rapidly being taken away.
3. Teachers, in an attempt to "control" classrooms from increasingly "unruly" students, would label kids with attention-deficit disorder, and have the children put on Ritalin, Lithium, or other psychiatric drugs, to suppress fidgeting and other energy release behaviors in the classroom.
4. The children, now with loss of outdoor social activities and instead put on these psychiatric drugs, have their emotions dulled and lose the opportunity to learn valuable social skills from playing with other boys and girls in unstructured free time. See this recent article The Fragile Generation on the value of unstructured free time.
5. After graduation from high school, these children are taken off the school-prescribed psychiatric drugs, "get woke," and now find themselves thrust into the adult world without having the free and clear-minded adolescent years to develop the necessary social skills to navigate relationships with other people.
6. Simple perceived slights, such as being rejected on a date (or even getting up the nerve to ask someone out), being "dumped" for another suitor, being insulted by another, coming in last in a game, become magnified into major confrontations requiring the "dis" to be avenged, because they never learned how to manage disappointment as children.
7. Because these angry, "disrespected" young adults still have the emotional development of post-puberty adolescents, they lash out in rage and tantrums instead of reflection and learning from mistakes to do better next time.
8. Some become "snowflakes," behaving irrationally in adult situations. Others reach for the gun to "show everyone," and to solve their problem "once and for all."

In my opinion, not much has changed in the last 17 years to change my mind.

-PJ

[chris37]

I’m not sure that he committed a crime prior to this that would warrant his being locked up. I’d love to know why the police were called to his house so many times though, and why no action was seemingly taken.

Outside of that, his family should have seen that his life was spiraling downward, and he was collecting an unusual amount of weapons. I also wonder what kind of drugs he may have used. I think he should have been committed.

But, at the very minimum, there is no way he should have been able to access the school and its students as easily as he did.

Security is nonexistent. That needs to end right now. The kids are sitting ducks.

[ilovesarah2012]

The gates at school had been opened because school was getting ready to release and he knew that. Do our schools need to become prisons?

[ilovesarah2012]

The gates at school had been opened because school was getting ready to release and he knew that. Do our schools need to become prisons?

[longfellowsmuse]

And now look at what the German cardinals are trying to propagate against the Catholic Church.

[chris37]

I don’t know.

You tell me what they need to become, because what they are right now ain’t cuttin’ it, is it?