Posted on 06/04/2019 3:49:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
This past weekend, Americans learned of another mass shooting, this time by an employee who decided to murder as many of the people he had worked with for years as possible. As of this writing, the murder toll is 12 people.
Every American asks why. What was the killer's motive? When we read there is "no known motive," we are frustrated. Human beings want to make sense of life, especially of evil.
Liberals (in this regard, liberals' views are essentially as the same as leftists') are virtually united in ascribing these shootings to guns. Just this past weekend, in a speech in Brazil, former President Barack Obama told an audience:
"Our gun laws in the United States don't make much sense. Anybody can buy any weapon any time -- without much, if any, regulation. They can buy (guns) over the internet. They can buy machine guns."
That the former president fabricated a series of falsehoods about the United States -- and maligned, on foreign soil, the country that twice elected him president -- speaks to his character and to the character of the American news media that have been completely silent about these falsehoods. But the main point here is that, like other liberals and leftists, when Obama addresses the subject of mass shootings -- in Brazil, he had been talking about the children murdered at Sandy Hook Elementary School in 2012 -- he talks about guns.
Yet, America had plenty of guns when its mass murder rate was much lower. Grant Duwe, a Ph.D. in criminology and director of research and evaluation at the Minnesota Department of Corrections, gathered data going back 100 years in his 2007 book, "Mass Murder in the United States: A History."
Duwe's data reveal:
In the 20th century, every decade before the 1970s had fewer than 10 mass public shootings. In the 1950s, for example, there was one mass shooting. And then a steep rise began. In the 1960s, there were six mass shootings. In the 1970s, the number rose to 13. In the 1980s, the number increased 2 1/2 times, to 32. And it rose again in the 1990s, to 42. As for this century, The New York Times reported in 2014 that, according to the FBI, "Mass shootings have risen drastically in the past half-dozen years."
Given the same ubiquity of guns, wouldn't the most productive question be what, if anything, has changed since the 1960s and '70s? Of course it would. And a great deal has changed. America is much more ethnically diverse, much less religious. Boys have far fewer male role models in their lives. Fewer men marry, and normal boy behavior is largely held in contempt by their feminist teachers, principals and therapists. Do any or all of those factors matter more than the availability of guns?
Let's briefly investigate each factor.
Regarding ethnic diversity, the countries that not only have the fewest mass murders but the lowest homicide rates as well are the least ethnically diverse -- such as Japan and nearly all European countries. So, too, the American states that have homicide rates as low as Western European countries are the least ethnically and racially diverse (the four lowest are New Hampshire, North Dakota, Maine and Idaho). Now, America, being the most ethnically and racially diverse country in the world, could still have low homicide rates if a) Americans were Americanized, but the left has hyphenated -- Balkanized, if you will -- Americans, and b) most black males grew up with fathers.
Regarding religiosity, the left welcomes -- indeed, seeks -- the end of Christianity in America (though not of Islam, whose robustness it fosters). Why don't we ask a simple question: What percentage of American murderers attend church each week?
Regarding boys' need for fathers, in 2008, then-Sen. Obama told an audience: "Children who grow up without a father are five times more likely to live in poverty and commit crime; nine times more likely to drop out of schools; and 20 times more likely to end up in prison."
Yet, the Times has published columns and "studies" showing how relatively unimportant fathers are, and more and more educated women believe this dangerous nonsense.
Then there is marriage: Nearly all men who murder are single. And their number is increasing.
Finally, since the 1960s, we have been living in a culture of grievance. Whereas in the past people generally understood that life is hard and/or they have to work on themselves to improve their lives, for half a century, the left has drummed into Americans' minds the belief that their difficulties are caused by American society -- in particular, its sexism, racism and patriarchy. And the more aggrieved people are the more dulled their consciences.
When you don't ask intelligent questions, you cannot come up with intelligent answers. So, then, with regard to murder in America, until Americans stop allowing the left to ask the questions, we will have no intelligent answers.
Mass shootings and the explosion of drug addicts have the same roots.
Add in prescription and other drugs, a much more violent culture such as hip hop and in movies, violent video games, our import of jihadis, and of course our IC false flags.
Precisely
I would BET he was on some prescription drugs for depression also! Also, lefty black men have a short trigger.
When the “educated elite” convinced the country that Judeo-Christian Morality was so “passe” and “unsophisticated”, and the leftist judicial system stripped it out of the schools by miss-interpreting the Constitution as “freedom from religion”, right and wrong not only blurred, but inverted.
The 2nd Ammendment has prevented the government organs who have been running open-loop for the past 20-years, from starting the night-time “visits” to remove “enemies of the state”.
Blacks have been conditioned since the introduction of the “Great Society”, to be perpetually aggreived and since Obama, to be encouraged to act out.
He left out an important point. The insidious expansion of gun control has given mass shooters the confidence that very few citizens would be in a position to shoot back. Where Charles Whitman had to duck to avoid return fire from armed civilians on the UT campus, a mass shooter on that campus today would only have to worry about cops in what is now a gun-free zone.
Progressivism creates an anything goes society which is celebrated... Then when “anything goes” they blame constitutional and Christian values as the cause of everything. Marxism 101....
Many of the mass murderers are seeking their fifteen minutes of fame, but it is much easier for politicians to blame inanimate guns.
Facebook capitalizes on the drive for fame of its members.
Bingo!
Population in 1950 about 150 million. Population increase about 2 times. 10 x2 is 20 mass shootings expected. According to article about 30.
In the 20th century, every decade before the 1970s had fewer than 10 mass public shootings. In the 1950s, for example, there was one mass shooting. And then a steep rise began. In the 1960s, there were six mass shootings. In the 1970s, the number rose to 13. In the 1980s, the number increased 2 1/2 times, to 32. And it rose again in the 1990s, to 42. As for this century, The New York Times reported in 2014 that, according to the FBI, “Mass shootings have risen drastically in the past half-dozen years.”
Given the same ubiquity of guns, wouldn’t the most productive question be what, if anything, has changed since the 1960s and ‘70s? Of course it would. And a great deal has changed. America is much more ethnically diverse, much less religious. Boys have far fewer male role models in their lives. Fewer men marry, and normal boy behavior is largely held in contempt by their feminist teachers, principals and therapists. Do any or all of those factors matter more than the availability of guns?
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I think another factor is media coverage. Mass shootings are good for ratings.
The Left’s policies are behind the rise in gun violence.
Lack of REAL mental healthcare in the US!
Can hardly wait until half the nation is smoking pot. The only reason rec pot is being legalized is because of the Tax money to come.
The public has every right to know what prescriptions the murderers are taking.
Every American asks why. What was the killer’s motive? When we read there is “no known motive,” we are frustrated.
No we are not. The media is. The media wants us to be. The specific moment issue or items that set a person off really has no bearing on the situation. Evil does not require a motive to be evil. Mentally ill can be set off by something as simple as a look or a perceived look! Doesn’t change anything.
Copycat.
Loss of sense of values.
Anger, frustration and rage.
NOT availability of guns.
US Supreme Court Rules on Ten Commandments Displays
Not in Kentucky Court Houses
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