Journalist: ".. Is this still an allowable theory?"

twitter ^ | May 25 | Michael Tracey

[RandFan]

@mtracey

In "Bowling for Columbine," Michael Moore puzzles over why there are so many more shootings in the US vs. Canada, which have comparable rates of gun ownership. He concludes the issue isn't guns per se, but unique American cultural pathologies. Is this still an allowable theory?

Moore points out that the day of the Columbine shooting, 4/20/99, also happens to be the day Bill Clinton dropped the most bombs on Yugoslavia during that war. With the suggestion being that Americans have been conditioned to embrace mass violence. Still an allowable observation?

Because I have a feeling that if you even *thought* about positing a connection between current US foreign policy and these mass shootings, you'd be furiously denounced. Seems like the only thing you're allowed to call for is Mike Bloomberg's latest 10-point plan for gun control

[noiseman]

This kid was a daycare child.

Almost all the shootings by young people are done by warehoused children.

Great point. Among the many leftist-driven societal changes since the 1960s that have wrecked our culture, mothers choosing their careers over their children has been one of the worst. In fact, there has been a terrible price paid in a number of ways for women trying to compete with men in the workforce.

Any woman who deems herself a feminist, and prioritizes career above all else, but then complains that it takes two incomes now just to live an average life, has only herself and her feminist forerunners to blame. What did they think would happen when the number of available employees effectively doubled? More people (women+men instead of just men) chasing the same number of jobs equals lower or stagnant wages, plus the suddenly doubled household income drove inflation as well. And while that was occurring, the mother’s actual most important job was being outsourced to strangers. Horrible.

In the same way, if we gave every adult in the country a million dollar per year salary, very quickly it would take at least a million per year to afford a basic life. There were huge costs to driving most women into the workforce. Imagine further if we repealed child labor laws and encouraged every member of the family to work. That would make the multiple income trap even larger, requiring that every family put all of its members to work as well just to keep up.

[logi_cal869]

That is not factual.

[Mr Radical]

Yes, comparing crime rates, including mass shootings, in one place against rates in another place, is valid - if you truely want to understand the causes and change things.
Only a leftist would deny it.

[caww]

At first I thought this was a school in Mexico - for obvious reasons.

In this case it’s pretty clear the 18 yr. old has had issues for a long time. Didn’t attend classes at school, unconcerend about his appearences. And apparently little parental envolvement. So first thing he did at 18 was buy guns and ammo.... He was bound for something destructive.

[SauronOfMordor]

Canada is just 3.5% black

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Canadians#:~:text=According%20to%20the%202011%20Census,3.5%25%20of%20the%20country‘s%20population.

[GOPJ]

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3289010
from link:

“Out of the 97 countries where we have identified mass public shootings occurring, the United States ranks 64th in the per capita frequency of these attacks and 65th in the murder rate.
Not only have these attacks been much more common outside the US, the US’s share of these attacks have declined over time. There has been a much bigger increase over time in the number and severity of mass shootings in the rest of the world compared to the US. “ John Lott