[Bryanw92]

>>Perhaps the most important impact of Nietzsche’s thoughts on nihilism was the effect that they had on Martin Heidegger, the 20th century German philosopher and Nazi-backer, who also just so happens to be the patron saint of postmodernism.

>>Heidegger, through his interpretation of Nietzsche’s nihilism, effectively fashioned what we understand today as postmodern thought and especially postmodernism’s examination of reality, values, and truth.

And that, folks, is the whole problem! Every other indicator and contributor comes from that.

[teeman8r]

CBS just had a crying plea to do something... just not what would stop such killings... armed teachers and principals. For the actual first responders... police are second responders... those involved are the first responders.

[Migraine]

“Nietzche said, “Out of chaos comes order...”

[P.O.E.]

Reason and faith have been replaced by emotion, a step backwards in the evolution of civilization.

[super7man]

Gun control is a flawed attempt to treat the symptom but does nothing to cure the disease.

[Terry L Smith]

In any publicized shooting, be it The Texas Tower, John Lennon on the street, or any of this century’s current crop of mass shootings, the core problem is the human condition, not the mechanisms by which the shootings were performed.

(mind you, other than Kennedy, no other attempt or performed shooting of a sitting U.S. President engaged the Democrats to scream about gun control.)

Choosing to “blame the NRA”, is as stupid as affixing the blame for anything Trump, upon Mr. and Mrs. America. The NRA has, time and again, always come out against these sort of shootings. ALL the gun owner associations have ALWAYS stood for RESPONSIBLE gun ownership.

It has ALWAYS been the PERSON PULLING THE TRIGGER who should be held responsible, and not the entire populace of America for the action of one.

[mosesdapoet]

The talk shows and the media are busy blaming guns and politicking the incident shifting the blame when they should be furthering the need for student security.

Particularly since there have been examples occurring of such episodes worldwide the sources of which the media refuses to identify let alone acknowledge. Because it doesn’t fit their political NRA anti gun agenda .

One who comes to mind is John Howell of am890 WLS Chicago. Which prompted the inspiration for the following observations who got it so wrong left me screaming at my radio . John Williams of WGN am 720 used the killing of a popular police commander which occurred at the same time to launch an attack on the NRA

In the Broward county case, that high school security system should be brought to public discussion particularly because this school has a so called “gun free zone”. It does have an officer who may be armed assigned to patrol the multi acre site in a golf cart, but bans guns from the rest of its internal security Also it also calls for investigating how student vs student, and student vs teacher altercations, vandalism, and thefts, which are bound to occur were being dealt with.

Because in an educational unit this size it’s pretty clear their security system failed . In a secure system Cruz would have never gotten inside.

[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

[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...

[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