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So, its been decided that these "mass shooters" all have the common thread , of being alienated "losers", who are bitter and have a huge amount of self pity. They , obviously, needed help , of some sort, but couldn't/didn't get it, and just decided to go off. Most of them had been acting goofy for a while. Nobody would have anything to do with them, thus, the alienation, so, I guess they figured SOMEBODY would notice them, if they made themselves famous.
Ours is a cruel society, whether anyone chooses to believe it, or not. Especially young people. Its always been that way. The pressure to be "cool" and well liked. Attractive and successful. Certain types of people get shoved aside. Shunned , even, just for being different. They get told, and start to believe, they are worthless, have no value and nobody is interested in them. You see this a lot in schools, that's where it all starts. The cliques, the "popular" crowd etc. Loner types get LA eled as "weird" , early on, shunned by their peers, and so, made more alone. Its a problem, has been for a while, and now, with all the tech we rely on so much, these people can create a virtual world to live in, where THEY make the "rules" and decide what's "cool and normal".
A fantasy world, made all to real. Technology has not advanced mental health. Its encouraged people to withdraw. Do all their interaction via modem. That can't be a good thing, especially for someone already withdrawn and ignored. So, there's one more aspect of mental health to look at.
Some of these guys are somewhat deserving of the title and some of these guys also seem to be incapable of being treated.
I'll use Elliot Rodger as an example for both. Here was a guy who was very rich, had ties to the entertainment industry, and was not ugly. Yet, he could not get laid. He was in therapy since he was 8 years old and it doesn't seem to have done him much good. He used to comment on YouTube videos of people playing with animals and leave comments like "I want to crush it in my hand and hear it scream"
Sorry, but I do not have a lot of sympathy for him. He seems like a born narcissist, inherently antisocial, and if he was getting laid; I wouldn't be surprised if he was the type of guy who would dump the girl right after and post their naked pictures on Facebook.
Now, some of the other mass shooters do seem to have been angry and depressed and decided to kill a bunch of people before they kill themselves, but some of them are loners for a very good reason.
What is it that you want to accomplish by lumping mass murders with law abiding gun owners? Do you want to eliminate the gun culture, so you can ban guns? Or try to convince people that all gun owners are bad, by lumping the entire gun culture in with murders, to then ban guns?
I do not want to do any of the things you state. I am simply stating a fact: We have frequent mass shootings of innocent people in the US. Forget criminals shooting each other due to the drug trade---------they are doing us a favor.
We have an epidemic of mental people in this country that suffer from an inferiority complex and this drives them to kill innocents. These mental folks happen to be gun enthusiasts and that is the problem.
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Being that mass murders make up, I don't know, less than 1/100th of a percent of gun owners, I don't think anyone if going to believe that it's the gun culture that is causing crazy people to kill. Also consider that mass murder victims make up less that 1% of all murder victims, so this is hardly an epidemic destroying our country.
Minimizing mass murder is basically accepting that we are an insane violent society. Unfortunately, mentally ill gun owners cause a lot of harm whereas mentally ill folks that do not own guns cause less harm. It is a very explosive combination that is unique to the US. In other countries mentally ill folks have little access to guns. Only the thugs have guns and they do not use them for massacres.
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So again, be honest, what is it that you want to accomplish by blaming the gun culture for mass shootings?
The problem is a difficult. A large portion of the US citizens belong to the gun culture because that is part of our national heritage. For these Americans having many guns all over the place feels perfectly normal. Paradoxically they claim they need guns for self defense even though they often live in rural areas where the crime rate is low. And erroneously they say the crime rate is low because everybody has guns. Paradoxically, the liberals who often live in cities with high crime statistics do not have guns.
I don't have any easy solutions: I know quite well one cannot change the cultural heritage of millions of people overnight. I also know the factors causing mental illness and inferiority complex in some gun owners is a complex issue. However, massacres by gun owners are less common in countries that do not have a gun culture.
Expertise in the gun culture crowd is variable, but nevertheless they belong to the gun culture.
So everyone that drives a car is part of a "car culture"?
Everyone that uses a phone is part of a "phone culture"?
Everyone that brushes their teeth a "tooth brush culture"?
It's a tool
People in the military use firearms
People that hunt use firearms
People that live on farms and ranches use firearms
People that protect banks use firearms
Police use firearms
Some people just punch holes in paper with firearms
Last but not least, criminals can use weapons in crimes, including murder.
Every one of these uses is different, so different in fact they are hardly related
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We have an epidemic of mental people in this country that suffer from an inferiority complex and this drives them to kill innocents. These mental folks happen to be gun enthusiasts and that is the problem.
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I'm not sure that you can say that these mentally ill people ae necessarily gun enthusiasts just bc they employ theM to carry out their crazy agenda. Were th he 911 guys plane enthusiasts? Of just using the most efficient means available to them to wreak the most havoc?
The fallacy of gun control laws (restated yet again)
Criminals break laws by using guns to commit crime. (FACT)
So lets create more laws to stop criminals from using guns. (THE BIG FALLACY)
It's pretty simple to understand.
If people ignore the above. And so far everyone has in this topic, then there is only one course of action that would stop the mass shootings.
Allow people to carry and holster a gun anywhere.
There is a reason these mass shootings happen in places like schools. Everyone else is prevented from carrying a gun. One armed individual can and will end something like this in short order. But it doesn't happen because of misguided gun laws that treat every gun owner like a criminal.
A modest proposal making the rounds - anonymous author.
Make some version of this the law for any male under 45?
That only "makes sense" to a derranged liberal. Every woman who gets an abortion kills someone, a tiny fraction of a percent of legal gun owners kills anyone. To a liberaL apples and oranges are identical if it allows them to pass another law.
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