El Paso: The Real Root Causes of Mass Shootings

American Thinker.com ^ | August 5, 2019 | Selwyn Duke

[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).

[miss marmelstein]

Hmm...seems to me he had a VERY bad shrink or your son is giving you a false idea of what his shrink said (which is often the case). It’s true that therapy often brings up painful family stuff but a mature person must learn to accept that, shoulder on and learn to live and love his own family despite their faults. At 32, your son should be there. So sorry for you. I hope he will turn himself around and learn to love you and your spouse before it is too late. I still miss my dear father and my mother and wish I could tell them how much they meant to me.