The perps of these shootings are disturbed boys on mind-altering meds, most taken for years, who feel lonely and unloved. The Columbine shootings that were covered wall-to-wall by the media set the pattern for these disturbed boys to get attention and to get revenge on those who did not befriend them.
So what do we see today? Wall-to-wall coverage of another shooting by just such a boy. We are sure to have more of these.
The media and the other Leftists want to limit the Second Amendment to combat the shootings. How about curbing the First Amendment, too, limiting the coverage given to these terrible events?
Yes, and a left wing journalism professor who was a newscaster told me that back in the streaking days mainstream news came to an unwritten agreement to not cover streaking. It soon died out. He was replying to me saying exactly what you are saying but I was saying this in the ‘90s.
It seems a more colorful mode of suicide. Except here somehow the shooter didn’t turn the gun on himself before getting caught. Kudos on Florida at least for troopers who are more on the ball. It wasn’t as cowardly as Columbine.
If all schools were privatized, parents can send their kids to the schools that best meet their kid's individual needs and nurture their talents. And you can bet that most of these schools will have armed staff on hand too.
Or, they can simply purchase an educator's kit and have their kid study at home on the computer. Or co-op with other parents and hire an educator who'll teach a group of kids in a home or leased building.
Just the idea of hundreds of kids simultaneously attending the same building with strict rules and government-enforced edicts is an anachronism and would make the Founders spin in their graves.
Why limit coverage of a perp that likely had no real father figure in his life, and a grandmotherly mother apparently with no support system who was unable to control little boys that grew up with no impulse control? Why not beat the drum loudly that, even with a history of police calls to the home, the police force had no tool to use to get the mom and/or the boys help, like 10 years ago when he was sic’ing his dog on the neighbor’s minipigs or shooting chickens?
Watch and see if we don't get a couple more of these in the next few weeks. This isn't a second amendment issue, but a first. The killings are calculated to get worldwide publicity for the shooter, and our media is only too happy to oblige them.
In times past, high school age boys didn’t take anti-depressant drugs and all they thought about was girls and sex.
Now the boys are doped up from an early age, and are browbeaten away from sex and girls UNLESS they wanna be a little homo, or chop their penis off and BE a girl.
We are creating a very screwed up generation. Always be carrying...they are everywhere out there.
It’s not only that, the alienation among peers. Not to minimize it.
Young white males are also relentlessly inculcated with the idea that they have utterly no future in America. Everything wrong with America is their fault. Everything they have is as a result of privilege. And what is certain is that society is now bound and determined to right that injustice by revoking their future, socially exiling them, and taking away any hope they might have had for a prosperous future. They are first to be blamed for all societal woes and what’s even more insidious, they have no way to right this wrong. Through no fault of their own, illegals are to be given every right and absolved from all but the most heinous of crimes. Through no fault of his own, his very skin color is in itself a badge of dishonor and a guarantee of a demeaned future. It’s not hard to imagine if you put yourself in his shoes that you are doomed to a seriously diminished future, and while it is of course insanely wrong and inherently evil to take this out upon society by conducting a wanton slaughter, if we’re talking about causes, this is a definite something.
The media hardly ever if at all tells us if these shooters have ever been prescribed mind-altering meds. Wouldn’t it be nice if outraged media and political loudmouths demanded a ban on those poisons?