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El Paso: The Real Root Causes of Mass Shootings
American Thinker.com ^ | August 5, 2019 | Selwyn Duke

Posted on 08/05/2019 4:58:35 AM PDT by Kaslin

In the El Paso shooting’s wake, evident is same wash-rinse-repeat pattern. There are the inevitable calls for gun control by demagogues concerned only about people control, those who put the onus on whites when most mass shooters are non-white, and propagandists who blame the “Right” when most violence originates with the “Left.” It’s quite tiresome, really. In truth, the main underlying cause of increased mass-murder events -- and so much evil in general -- is a severe philosophical/spiritual malaise besetting our nation.

Were gun control the remedy here, mass shootings would be rare. Not only were there fewer firearm laws many decades ago, but in 1940s and ‘50s New York City, boys would often take guns on the subway because they had rifle clubs at school. So is access to firearms really the problem’s root cause?

As for the El Paso shooter’s motivation -- our immigrationism combined with left-wing environmental concerns -- there are people who will do evil in a cause’s name regardless of its nobility or ignobility. The real question here is, boiled down: Why are we seeing so much more evil in America now than in bygone days?

Many people find it ironic that the El Paso shooter’s father is a mental-health therapist. I find it unsurprising. I used to work with children, and “social scientists” often had horribly behaved kids (in fact, a psychologist’s young son was involved in the theft of $300 at the business where I worked).

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: 2ndamendment; banglist; elpaso; groupthink; guncontrol; masscontrol; massshootings; nra; rkba; secondamendment
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1 posted on 08/05/2019 4:58:35 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Morality has been replaced by political correctness and virtue signaling. Both products of groupthink.


2 posted on 08/05/2019 5:08:50 AM PDT by headstamp 2 (There's a stairway to heaven, but there's a highway to hell.)
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To: Kaslin
Liberals want the Chicago gun control laws implemented everywhere.
We know how well that works.

3 posted on 08/05/2019 5:12:48 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Kaslin

Shooter’s daddy was a “mental a health a therapist”.

That explains it all.


4 posted on 08/05/2019 5:13:21 AM PDT by Mrs.Z (Donald Trump... the guy who makes all the right people angry.)
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To: Kaslin
Gonn'a post this before reading the article.

Mass murderers are not neccesarilly targetting people but an idea or a location.
Why would someone shoot up a school of kids?

In my opinion, it is the school (which really translates into the school system ) that is being targetted.

Even bullying. The school (system) didn't protect the shooter. I think investigators should shift their focus from a person to the location or program that was targetted.

5 posted on 08/05/2019 5:14:19 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: Mrs.Z
Yes/no.

Those headphones have intrigued me since they posted a picture of an ivy league looking guy with an AK ... AND HEADPHONES !

No mass murderer enters the manifestation of his fantasy trying to protect his earsd.

MKULTRA, imo.

6 posted on 08/05/2019 5:21:31 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true, I have no proof, but they're true.)
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To: headstamp 2

we lost this nation when the 10 Commandments were removed from the town square. There is no moral compass.


7 posted on 08/05/2019 5:21:53 AM PDT by griswold3
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To: Kaslin

Deranged idiots is the cause. Nothing more, nothing less.


8 posted on 08/05/2019 5:34:51 AM PDT by maddog55
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To: Kaslin

And I’ve often found that liberals’ children are often the most messed up: “gender” issues, drug issues, sex issues, political and emotional issues. Conservative kids often rebel but just as soon return to the fold once they get their first job or turn 30, whichever comes first.


9 posted on 08/05/2019 5:53:26 AM PDT by miss marmelstein
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To: Kaslin
a severe philosophical/spiritual malaise besetting our nation

One need not be a Mensa candidate to realize this. Any fool would know that when we banned Jesus Christ from public education, all branches of government, the entire entertainment complex, pseudo "Christian" churches, and most importantly, the American home, bad things were going to happen.

Hosea referenced it as "sowing the wind and reaping the whirlwind." Paul said, "..whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."

America is going to reap it. Parading the perversion of homosexuality, murdering our unborn, encouraging the masses to take drugs... The list goes on and on. Hang on to your hats, boys, this one is going to be bad.

Pray for America's Spiritual Revival.

10 posted on 08/05/2019 5:55:25 AM PDT by LouAvul
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To: griswold3

We can return to God.


11 posted on 08/05/2019 5:56:15 AM PDT by KDF48 (Redeemed by Christ.)
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To: maddog55

We now have a growing number of young, lonely, marginalized weirdo kids from dysfunctional or broke apart families. Combined with a society, a continual diet of violent media, devoid of morals and that actually half of celebrates killing babies before or while they’re being born.

Why are we so surprised when we see these killings? These killers have no base of reality that is solid or stabilizing.

If these zombines can’t get guns, they’ll make them ...or they’ll put together bombs. There’s really not much we can do to stop it now. It’s going to happen.


12 posted on 08/05/2019 5:57:23 AM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: Kaslin

I’ll take “Results of Godlessness” for $500, Alex.


13 posted on 08/05/2019 5:59:54 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: Kaslin

Here’s the crux of the article:

“Yet it all comes down to morality, or to a lack of morality — or, even more precisely, to a lack of belief in it.”


14 posted on 08/05/2019 6:02:08 AM PDT by be-baw
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To: griswold3; headstamp 2

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we lost this nation when the 10 Commandments were removed from the town square. There is no moral compass.
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That’s a SYMPTOM, not a CAUSE.

It was lost when We the People allowed Socialism to creep into the body politic.

Not holding Lincoln for the crimes against the Constitution (no, it wasn’t an insurrection, it was another Rev. War) to Teddy’s ‘conversation’, to property theft (gold confiscation)\Fed. Rsve\SS\drug war\1st ‘gun contrl’ to full blown economic slavery (welfare state\MediXYZ) & State usurpation (Civil\Voting Rights Acts)


15 posted on 08/05/2019 6:05:00 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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To: LibsRJerks

“...kids from dysfunctional or broke apart families.”

Half of our youth now are from fatherless homes, many not knowing their father at all. Many others have stepfathers instead of their birth fathers. So very many now raised by only a woman. Can we say “unbalanced”?

Of course, the great many do not know their Heavenly Father, do not know that they are sons and daughters of the King.


16 posted on 08/05/2019 6:05:05 AM PDT by polymuser (It's discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward)
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To: i_robot73

I see I am becoming a bobble head after your post. Good job.


17 posted on 08/05/2019 6:08:25 AM PDT by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her! Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: Kaslin

Another factor, IMO, is the restrictions feminist society has put on boys who expect to grow in to men. Boys don’t respond to teaching the same way girls do, but because of feminist educators making the rules to solely favor girls, they are harming boys. They aren’t allowed to play games that develop leadership and other values normal men have developed over time. Their natural instincts suppressed, often with drugs, what are these kids to do but develop other avenues to release their energy? Bring back faggot-free scouting, boy’s clubs, let them run and play and develop in a normal way and maybe they’ll turn out to be normal guys and not basement dwelling manifesto writing murdering weirdos.


18 posted on 08/05/2019 6:11:33 AM PDT by bk1000 (I stand with Trump)
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To: Kaslin

Bookmark


19 posted on 08/05/2019 6:12:35 AM PDT by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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To: i_robot73

Re: Socialism creeping into our body politic

Our nation’s first socialist entitlement was government K-12 schooling.

From the beginning, government schooling offered a generic and lukewarm protestantism. And...with each decade and the pap offered to the students was more bland and cooler.

By the time I graduated from government schooling, there was a perfunctory Lord’s Prayer in the morning and non-stop atheistic secularism for the remainder of the day. Geeze!...And people wonder why there were so many of my generation grew up to be hippies dropping acid?


20 posted on 08/05/2019 6:12:46 AM PDT by wintertime (Stop treating government teachers like they are reincarnated Mother Teresas!)
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