American School Shootings Aren't A Gun Issue
What The Left Wants To Ignore About School Shootings
The latest school shooting in Texas (and the outrageous, apparent negligence of the local police) reflect the sad state of America today. The problem isn't gun laws: America has always had guns, but it hasn't always had school shootings like this. This point was made eloquently by a couple of commenters on Twitter, whose threads I've included below. Before that, a quick update on yesterday's post ("A Hedged Bet on Even Higher Natural Gas Prices").
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Now on to some excellent observations about how America's school shootings are a symptom of disturbing trends.
We've Always Had Guns; We Haven't Always Had School Shootings
Here's the first of two excellent threads on this.
These aren't the bygone days of yore we're talking about, like it's the Founding Fathers. It's my *dad*. He's still alive, I could call him up right now
— Doctor-Baron 17cShyteposter, DDS (@17cShyteposter) May 25, 2022
These events aren't caused by guns. They're caused by something else. That we appear to have no interest in understanding
A culture that—if we're just being empiricists here, scientists, the foundation of our society—apparently now regularly drives people to commit acts of mass violence that were just unthinkable when my parents were kids
— Doctor-Baron 17cShyteposter, DDS (@17cShyteposter) May 25, 2022
You would think there would be some curiosity about that
Crazy, then, that despite this ability to induce cultural amnesia, in service of outlawing guns, gun rights have only gotten *stronger* over the last 30 years
— Doctor-Baron 17cShyteposter, DDS (@17cShyteposter) May 25, 2022
It should have logically been the opposite
So maybe there's some scientific correlation, between erasing people's culture, that they naturally fit within, and inducing the level of alienation that leads to unnatural events like this.
— Doctor-Baron 17cShyteposter, DDS (@17cShyteposter) May 25, 2022
I'm not a scientist. But if I was, this is what I'd want to study. It's only rational.
And here's the second thread, offering some valuable historical details.
https://t.co/iXzy4FVFSj
— Revisionist History (@Mast3rmo) May 25, 2022
almost every school shooting from 1800-1960 was targetted at one person.
(One guy shot his teacher in 1866 for bullying his brother and got acquitted. Wild)
School shootings simply didn't happen with any frequency until 1993
There was only 1 school shooting in the 1800ds.(1898 Charleston. 6 died
— Revisionist History (@Mast3rmo) May 25, 2022
ZERO until 1940 when a highschool principal shot 5 of his colleagues😵💫(5 died)
1966 at university of Texas , rose Mar college. (18,5)
No school shooting until 1984....
This is new phenomenon
https://t.co/yAQiQ1CUyh
— Revisionist History (@Mast3rmo) May 25, 2022
Don't tell me further isolating already mentally fragile kids for 2 years didn't have consequences. This suggests increases are due to isolation and mental issues.
Opioids and suicides were already exploding pre 2020
Alot of good points being made.
— Revisionist History (@Mast3rmo) May 25, 2022
SSRIs, ritalin, lack of community/socialization/church/purpose for young men, family breakdown , social media, columbine/contagion, LBJ, isolation, lack of social institutions
https://t.co/df0DLjuP92
— Revisionist History (@Mast3rmo) May 26, 2022
Worth also noting the countries with the highest homicide rate (most in southern hemisphere) have strict gun bans
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