Issues You Never Hear of In Gun Control

Lt. Col. Dave Grossman of Kill-Ology fame, notes that school shootings are associated with lethal-acting-out video games, formerly like Grand Theft Auto, now in some vastly sterioids-ampped up versions. He's treated like a pointy-tinfoil hat, wingnut by the MSM.

John Taylor Gatto noted that due to the deliberate design of universal compulsory schooling from 1880+ to be meaningless, to hurt your children, to crush their imaginations, to prepare them to be mindless consumers & giant institutional employees, school kids are highly violent and angry. No one treats Mr. Gatto like Col. Grossman, because he cites all the facts & figures, in black & white.

I have read Grossman’s books in detail, but as a fan of history I have found them wanting.

In times past, we were MUCH more violent on a day to day basis. Yet mass killings were rare.

My personal opinion (which with a buck will get you a diet soft drink) is that it is a combination of things. I grew up butchering animals and hunting small game. I knew what death, pain, and suffering was in animals. Dad and Grandpa were VERY clear to not have the animal suffer.

So using Grossman’s book I, like many of those I grew up with, were in the group were killing would not be a major hangup (in the right circumstances). My friends who enlisted served with honor and had few psychological issues. Death was, in short, something we had seen and dealt with multiple times before adulthood. It wasn’t fun, cool, or exciting. It was how meat was made.

Some town friends I had different experiences. While I was helping butcher animals at age 7 or so, they had not seen death up close of anything bigger than an insect till they were deployed. To say they had bigger issues is an understatement.

The problem, in my opinion, isn’t guns, or TV, or video games. It is that people have a total disconnect from real death and pain. My life experiences exposed me and my farm friends to both, and as a result we were more able to cope with it.

It still continues today. My father just passed, and while I am saddened by it I kept functioning. An employee of mine has an in law who is sick, and had a total break with reality. My Father would be PISSED if I stopped doing the work for more than a few hours. I remember when Grandpa died, we went home and did the chores after the funeral. It was part of life.

My life experiences exposed me and my farm friends to both, and as a result we were more able to cope with it.
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Butchering animals, coyotes eating you pet cat, etc.

Uncle Mel getting run over by his own tractor.

Grandma passing in the bedroom.

Today, all is sanitized. Grandma dies in the hospital. No bodies to be seen.

Agree.

One of the theories as to why general violence rates dramatically dropped over the last few decades is that the rise of screen technology has made us the most passively entertained people in all of history. We are are a screen culture. At the same time we also became the fattest and most comfortable ever.

Our modern version of bread and circuses has done amazing things the romans couldn’t even imagine, like actually making the poorest the most likely to be obese. History and human nature seem to indicate that fat, entertained and comfortable people don’t have civil upheavals or commit much violence.

Freegards

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