(05-30-2022, 09:55 AM)homebiscuit Wrote:

(05-30-2022, 09:21 AM)Lucky2Last Wrote: Also, I've done the comparison in a previous thread. Canada has the same amount of mass shooting deaths per capita. If you look at the mass murder in Europe (as a whole, which rivals America), we end up in the same ballpark. I'd be curious to look and see if school shootings is exclusively an American problem, though. If so, what is creating that unique problem?

The legacy of Columbine. I read an article a few years ago about a teenager who was caught before he carried out his plan of shooting up his school. The article went on to explain how this kid’s motivation, along with an online subculture, regard the Columbine shooters in a cult status. Kids, exclusively male, who have been bullied or regard their school experiences as traumatic feel as though Columbine provided a coping option rather than just moving on with life.

It was a very insightful article. When I have the chance I’ll look around for it.

Said this yesterday in this thread. We idolize Psychopaths in this country. We idolize Serial Killers and we make them famous. We put them on shirts. We make documentaries about them and their legend grows and continues. That's the problem. Shock Value and Media. These people put on suits and ties and put a microphone up to their faces to report on these issues but they don't [BLEEP] care about it, not really. At the end of the day it's all about those ratings and keeping your eyes glued to the screen in front of you. 

You have a bunch of young incels sitting at home, probably missing a father figure or lacking a father figure with a spine that takes his own weakness out on his own children, thus, creating a cycle of victimization at home. Kid gets bullied at home, so, he gets bullied at school. Eventually the victim can't take it anymore, [BLEEP] snaps, and then all of that comes to light during the aftermath. 

Not to mention the vortex and ease of access to everything else. People cry about the ease of access to guns? What about your [BLEEP] medicine cabinets at home folks? What about pornography? Not talking about your missionary position pornography either, you know what I am talking about here. The extreme nature and degrading behavior that's extremely off base and not even remotely realistic for probably 90% of the average population in the bedroom. What about real snuff films and violent video games? Faces of Death, etc.

There's disgusting forums EVERYWHERE with like minded people talking about what they want to do OPENLY. It's happening right now. The next shooter is out there looking to aim his score a little bit higher than the last one. He'll be smarter too. He'll do something completely different to put the arguments about guns being the issue back on it's [BLEEP] head upside down. You watch. It's predictable and cyclical. As usual. 

Next mass killing won't involve a gun at all. Hate to be cynical but you kept hearing the word "domestic terrorism" come up and up and up over and over again over the past four to six years. Nothing says terrorism like an explosion that goes off in the middle of broad daylight in a large public sitting.

---