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To: marktwain
This is a very interesting summary of such statistics. However, the author of the piece does not seem to account for the first (and very puzzling) of the high school type rampages that occurred in the small city of Olean, NY (my birthplace) on December 30, 1974. A 17-year-old honor student and match-calibre (no pun) rifle team star, Anthony Barbaro, took his position on the 3rd floor of the closed-for-holidays high school, and with his .30-06 rifle mowed down 3 adults and wounded 11 others before surrendering to some 50 city police, New York State Troopers, and National Guardsmen.

Almost 30 years later, the commentator Erica Carle wrote a pithy, pungent and piercing review on the probability of the nationwide malignant twisting of high school civics and moral indoctrination to induce suicidal views in these immature, tender minds, in her article SHOOTING RAMPAGES: WHY DO CHILDREN KILL?. This extremely interesting assessment of the state of high school (and certainly college-level) cultural integration shewed her prescient predictions of such tragedies as arising out of the educational bent which practically forces the children into self-destructive attitudes and practices.

I strongly recommend that anyone undertaking to support the private possession of guns as defensive devices really ought to read Carle's treatise, remember it, and post it to others. She has intimated what I've already said myself on this, that the Columbine massacre and that at Virginia Tech were simply the victims of fool-headed institutions being simply defrauded, depressed, and distraught students wreaking the wrath of their instruction-ingrained hopelessness on the systems producing their mindset.

In fact, if we continue to permit the training of a civilian population into such a predominant self-centered, values-free worldview, then leaving them unrestricted access to deadly weapons is simply asking for a far-greater likelihood of rampages, at school, at work, at recreation and relaxation venues, in shopping plazas, etc. And this is why the Anti-Gun propagandizers are exactly correct, because they know whast they are creating, and are seeking to prevent the broadly morally insensitive consitituency which is now fully maturing and becoming very effective in setting up these vile terroristic activities. And eventually, they will not be striving to maintain right-to-life for babes, children, or adults; they will prevail over we, the reactionaries, to establish anarchy over us.

I believe that pro-gun, Second Amendment protagonists must at the same time incorporate an overwhelming and persistent First Amendment attack aimed toward training up a Godly culture by torpedoing the current humanistic, atheistic and/or islamistic, racistic, unionistic domination of public education, while there still is a chance. And do it now.

If this is not done, any vestige of a society prevalently upholding the Old Constitution and Our Founder's Primary Values is done for.

10 posted on 12/09/2012 1:14:33 PM PST by imardmd1 (... let such as love their salvation say continually, "The LORD be magnified!" (Ps. 40:16b))
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To: imardmd1

The reason your shooting is not on the list,is because it is likely not included in the author’s sources. It is pre-internet.


11 posted on 12/09/2012 1:35:43 PM PST by marktwain
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To: imardmd1

Isn’t that simply blaming the results of these trends on inanimate objects that had nothing to do with how children are raised these days?

If you could wave a magic wand and rid the world of guns, there would still be edged weapons by which death and destruction could be wrought.

If not edged weapons then fire or explosive could be used to create these massacres.

Why can’t we address the root of the problem instead of resorting to band aide liberty destroying solutions that have nothing to do with the original cause?

Firearms aren’t exactly a new technology – why haven’t there bee any of those mass shootings 60 –80 –120 years ago?


14 posted on 12/09/2012 2:07:15 PM PST by HammerT (The Obama Recession, you bone it you own it.)
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