Posted on 02/15/2018 5:18:41 PM PST by ml/nj
I don't know. I'm asking.
I graduated high school in 1964. During the entire time I was in school Wikipedia reports that there was one incident where three people were killed in US schools, and none where two people were killed. There was an average somewhere between one and two incidents a year where one was killed.
Guns were MUCH MORE AVAILABLE then. Schools had rifle teams. I shot an untethered .22 at Coney Island. I shot guns at Boy Scout Camp. Anyone who thinks that more gun restrictions now would help is oblivious to this.
We also played with make-believe guns. My cap pistols looked like real guns. We played Cowboys and Indians. I'm not a fan of the shoot-em up video games, but it's hard to see how they are very different from the games I played.
So, what's different? Movies and TV shows are different. Respect for the US is different. Victim mentality is different. Respect for religion is different. There's a lot more welfare and a lot more taxes. Manners are different, or non-existent. I think government schools are different, but I haven't been in one for 50+ years so I'm just guessing.
We need to return to what worked. Continuing with more great solutions that make things worse strikes me as the wrong way to approach the problem we have.
ML/NJ
...the difference? It’s how easier it is to get up after life knocks you on your arse....
Not PC to say so, but in the 1960s, the US was very nearly 90% white, while it is now down to 70% and still dropping.
SSRIs are not selective.
Communicate the correlation.
The imported third world population brought with it third world behaviors.
Really not that hard to figure out.
I’ll bet that the jihadi muzzies never attacked the bus....
You are only 1 yr. older than I am. I agree. One difference that I had - one of my grannies was fanatical about pointing a gun at anyone. That went for toy guns, sticks, and fingers.
If she caught you it was standing in the corner time, or maybe even whoopin time. She said it was disrespectful, and that a person should never point a gun at anyone they didn’t intend to kill. That seemed like a mixed message at the time, but now I do understand it.
There is a rise in atheism which leaves kids with empty souls.
Boys raised by females become EMASCULATED and turn to guns to recapture what they perceive as macho but is also a cry for help. This explains the black community male-on-male murder epidemic, 100%.
There are other factors of course, but if I had to point to the major contributor, it's FEMINISM and its destruction of the nuclear family as chief cause.
We had a few “education reforms” when I went to Catholic school. It was called a little Irish priest with 2X4 sized yardsticks. OUCH
In grade school we carried our guns to school so we could hunt for meat on the way home. We had to leave them in the coat room though. In High School, Lincoln, Nebr there were any number of guns left all day in pickup gun racks. Sure we had fist fights but never more than that.
God was taken out of the school for one thing..you hear leftists mocking God all the time..they go on TV and mock Mike Pence for saying that God speaks to him..I talk to God all the time, every night before bed when I say my prayers its what comforts me..its not the gun, its what is in someone’s soul..when you have people on twitter saying that its “Karma” that a man in Florida lost his daughter because he was shown last night on TV wearing a Trump 2020 t-shirt, that this man “Had what is coming to him for supporting Trump” that is not a gun issue, its a soul issue..we live in a society that hates each other..majority because of politics..its “I hate you because of who you support” you can take away the gun, the knife, the car, the baseball bat, the ax out of someone’s hand, you can’t take out what is in their heart..and if they have no heart, they will find a way to enact evil
And also you have a media GLORIFYING the shooter..everyday what have we heard “This is the worse mass shooting at a school in recent history” well there is some whack job kid at home saying “Ya know what, I can top him”
I posted this earlier today——
When I was in school some years ago, before the government took over the public schools
*when there was freedom to have a Bible club in school...
*when students walked to the church in town that was having Good Friday services.
*when the principal had control over the students and the students knew it.
*when teachers were good people who had respect for the student and vice versa.
*when parents raised their kids to have/show respect
*when vulgarity was not used in mixed company and NEVER in school.
*when there was such a thing as modesty
I could go on... but one can get the idea of what is wrong today and this is not a gun problem... it’s a rules/respect/consequences/parents/schools/losing control of a generation or more problem ..
.... because the left has NO sense at all and will run us all into a life/world you do not want.... if not stopped!
A side note: I have NEVER seen such hate and language as is used from behind a computer monitor.. that would not have happened in the time I described above... parents held their kids responsible.. society held kids and adults responsible.. there was no need for a ‘safe house’...
KIDS DIDN’T EVEN HAVE THIS CRAP IN THEIR MINDS TO SPEW
Cowboys and Indians, brings back memories.
We also played world war 2 , in which we divided into teams, and there would be teams of “Japs” and “Jerries”.
Holy crap, do that now, it’s time for school detention/intervention.
Most of us went to church.
I’ll add Adhd drugs, antidepressants and social media to the list. Also, 99% of the time it is white boys doing the killing, why not black boys? Is it because white boys are told they are useless and have white privilege and all the other SJW Crap? White boys are literally hated today by the left.
5 billion more people
Real men don’t murder innocent people.
In 1964, boys wanted to be real men, not cowards.
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