Posted on 02/16/2018 5:37:05 AM PST by Kaslin
"Enough is enough!" "This can't go on!" "This has to stop!"
These were among the comments that came through the blizzard of commentary after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Broward County. We have heard these words before.
Unfortunately, such atrocities are not going to stop. For the ingredients that produce such slaughters are present and abundant in American society.
And what can stop a man full of hate, who has ceased to care about his life and is willing to end it, from getting a weapon in a country of 300 million guns and killing as many as he can in a public place before the police arrive?
An act of "absolute pure evil," said Gov. Rick Scott, of the atrocity that took 17 lives and left a dozen more wounded. And evil is the right word.
While this massacre may be a product of mental illness, it is surely a product of moral depravity. For this was premeditated and plotted, done in copycat style to the mass killings to which this country has become all too accustomed.
Nikolas Cruz thought this through. He knew it was Valentine's Day. He brought his fully loaded AR-15 with extra magazines and smoke grenades to the school that had expelled him. He set off a fire alarm, knowing it would bring students rushing into crowded halls where they would be easy to kill. He then escaped by mixing in with fleeing students.
The first ingredient then was an icy indifference toward human life and a willingness to slaughter former fellow students to deliver payback for whatever it was Cruz believed had been done to him at Douglas High.
In his case, the conscience was dead, or was buried beneath hatred, rage or resentment at those succeeding where he had failed. He had been rejected, cast aside, expelled. This would be his revenge, and it would be something for Douglas High and the nation to see -- and never forget.
Indeed, it seems a common denominator of the atrocities to which we have been witness in recent years is that the perpetrators are nobodies who wish to die as somebodies.
If a sense of grievance against those perceived to have injured them is the goad that drives misfits like Cruz to mass murder, the magnet that draws them to it is infamy. Infamy is their shortcut to immortality.
From the killings in Columbine to Dylann Roof's murder of black parishioners at the Charleston Church, from the Pulse nightclub massacre in Orlando to the slaughter of first-graders in Newtown, to Las Vegas last October where Stephen Paddock, firing from an upper floor of the Mandalay Bay, shot dead 58 people and wounded hundreds at a country music festival -- these atrocities enter the social and cultural history of the nation. And those who carry them out achieve a recognition few Americans ever know. Charles Whitman, shooting 47 people from that Texas tower in 1966, is the original model.
Evil has its own hierarchy of rewards. Perhaps the most famous man of the 20th century was Hitler, with Stalin and Mao among his leading rivals.
Some of these individuals who seek to "go out" this way take their own lives when the responders arrive, or they commit "suicide by cop" and end their lives in a shootout. Others, Cruz among them, prefer to star in court, so the world can see who they are. And the commentators and TV cameras will again give them what they crave: massive publicity.
And we can't change this. As soon as the story broke, the cameras came running, and we watched another staging of the familiar drama -- the patrol cars, cops in body armor, ambulances, students running in panic or walking in line, talking TV heads demanding to know why the cowards in Congress won't vote to outlaw AR-15s.
Yet, among the reasons gun-owners prize the AR-15 is that, not only in movies and TV shows is it the hero's -- and the villain's -- weapon of choice, but in real life, these are the kinds of rifles carried by the America's most-admired warriors.
They are the modern version of muskets over the fireplace.
Another factor helps to explain what happened Wednesday: We are a formerly Christian society in an advanced state of decomposition.
Nikolas Cruz was a product of broken families. He was adopted. Both adoptive parents had died. Where did he get his ideas of right and wrong, good and evil? Before the Death of God and repeal of the Ten Commandments, in those dark old days, the 1950s, atrocities common now were almost nonexistent.
One imagines Nikolas sitting alone, watching coverage of the Las Vegas shooting, and thinking, "Why not? What have I got to lose? If this life is so miserable and unlikely to get better, why not go out, spectacularly, like that? If I did, they would remember who I was and what I did for the rest of their lives."
And, so, regrettably, we shall.
Enough is enough!” “This can’t go on!” “This has to stop!”
Fine. Now tell me when ANYTHING the Left say this sort of thing about EVER got fixed by THEM?
Remove their remaining licensure regulation and this is the best available policy to minimize ( can’t expect to ever totally eliminate) damage by crazies —-
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Generally, in almost all of these episodes....they all lead back to prescription drug use, and a mind that is dulled by the effect of the drug. They have lost the ability to reason with themselves and recognize good from bad. If you pull up every single mass murder since the 1960s...with the exception of the Texas Tower shooting of 1966...they all lead back to some kind of drug usage. In the Tower shooting, he had mental issues brewing.
If you went and forced the companies to all halt production and forbid sales...you’d probably notice a decrease in mass shootings within one single year.
That's it in a nutshell.
The Left crushed the "horrible" America of the 1950's and early 1960's and gave us what we have today. And it's only going to get worse. Much worse.
Enjoy.
Kids that are expelled should be put in reform school until they are deemed safe to go back to normal schools.
The tower shooter had a brain tumor.
An angry mental illness, that does not rise to the standard of ‘lack of mental competence’.
Maybe if the Lamestream media would stop using the scumbags’ names and showing their faces, and referred to shooters in reports as “Some @$$hole...” ?
Sorry, but this guy’s “motive” was untreated mental illness - something found in all of the adolescent male killers who have shot up schools. He may have been encouraged by prior incidents to express his insanity this way, but his motive was simply that he was crazy.
The school system provides no way to deal with these people; not only does it make it almost impossible for teachers or school administrators to get them out too the classrooms and protect the other children, the existing state of mental health care makes it impossible for the potential killers to get what they need: in-patient treatmetn at a residential, locked adolescent mental health facility.
Broken families certainly make it easier to fall through the cracks, but one of the reasons you see broken families by the time the psychotic adolescent has reached the killing stage is that the family has usually had years of the impossible task of dealing with a mentally ill child. In addition, in many cases the family is also afraid of the child but is unable to get any permanent residential commitment. The 72 hour Baker Act commitment does absolutely nothing.
Most of the cases Buchanan lists have nothing in common. Islam was the motivation in the Pulse massacre, and (in my opinion) probably in the Las Vegas massacre as well, although in this case the actual killer may have been hired to do it.
The killing of the black congregation in Charleston is the only one that was similar. It was another product of a young male who had had mental problems and been known to have a fascination with violence and fantasies of killing throughout his adolescence - and who should have been committed years before, except that his prominent family probably thought there’d be a stigma (for them) attached to acknowledging his problems.
So the problem of killings by the adolescent male psychopath and those by the terrroist are two different things.
How did he buy a gun and pass a background check?
Nikolas Cruz Reportedly a Former Mental Health Clinic Patient Prior to Shooting
Stop with the Scientology bs. It is an evil heart that causes this with 2 cures. GOD in our hearts and guns in our hands.
After this last shooting, I thought of a way to at least reduce the risk of these happening.
It’s about the gun free zones, and about what I heard on the radio this morning a speaker say to a large group. He said the first responders to this were the teachers and staff at the school, and got huge applause.
I agree. But it’s too bad none of them were armed. They may have been able to respond a little better. And if the perp KNEW that teachers were allowed to carry, he may have rethought doing it in the first place.
But it goes farther. Schools are not the only “gun free” zone. So are the secured areas of airports as well as courthouses. But, interestingly, both of those have metal dedector checkpoints with armed guards to ensure that, since everybody is aware none of the people there can defend themselves, they are responsible for ensuring that nobody gets in with a gun to turn it into a turkey shoot.
Oddly, we don’t do that regarding our children. Perhaps we should.
My idea is simple. For a publicly run place to be “gun free”, those responsible for the safety of those inside will be held legally responsible if they show negligence in their duty to protect the people inside. Having no metal detectors run by armed security guards is, in fact, gross negligence.
To cut to the chase: If you want to declare an area gun free, you must prove you have metal detectors and armed guards at all entrances where a perp may enter, knowing they are responsible, as would be security staff at an airport.
Of course, if they choose to not make it a gun free zone, it means teachers will be able to carry at the school.
So, either way, the risk for a wanna-be shooter is significantly enhanced. And that’s the goal really. The core goal is not to stop them before they shoot more people. The goal is to stop them from even trying. For crying out loud, it’s why banks have security guards.
There are insightful pearls in this document.
First, we live in a society where our previously held-dear Judeo-Christian Ethics and Morality has been pushed aside and made light of by the political left and their mouthpieces, the entertainment industry and media.
Second, we live in a society where the leftist “sociologists” define everyone as either victim or perpetrator. Failure is the unfair result of another’s undeserved success.
Third, we live in a society where the political left has been preaching a doctrine of helplessness and victimhood. Nothing is possible without the permission and intervention by the all-knowing and all-controlling nanny state.
Fourth, right and wrong have been adjudged to be situational and relative. To state someone’s actions are wrong is to be judgmental, racist, homophobic, Islamophobic, Mysoginistic, and Fascist. To disagree with someone of a leftist position are to be the same.
It is time, way past time, to stomp our collective foot down on the societal cancers called leftism.
“We are a formerly Christian society in an advanced state of decomposition.”
That is the biggest reason. No spiritual or even moral upbringing, broken homes, the prescription of psycho drugs and a mass media culture that preaches the futility of life. It is easier to blame the guns and it fits the political agenda to emasculate this country. The real evil is those who want to tear this country down because they are envious of our success.
They refuse to discipline their children and wonder why they act out like this.
Dr. Spock was an idiot.
You can go down and list virtually all mass murders, and even get down into half of the single murders themselves (some having nothing to do with guns...where a gal/guy was murdered with a hammer or knife), and find a drug prescription drug connection.
That kid in the 1998 murder of his parents in Huntsville, Alabama....had like ten times the amount of Ritalin that normal kid ought to have in his system.
Simply being a patient is not a factor for denying a permit. A person must be adjudicated mentally defective in court, or have been committed (again, by a court or another entity with such authority) to a mental institution.
Simply checking themselves in (no adjudication), or being ordered in for observation, doesn't cut it.
Sorry, that should be "denying a purchase", not "denying a permit."
This guy, unlike most, was taken alive. It will be interesting to see if the Deep State takes him out (like Lee Harvey Oswald) before he can enlighten us about why he did this.
It would not surprise me at all to find out that he was manipulated and encouraged to do this. It wouldn’t take much for someone to push a fragile mind over the edge, especially with drugs involved.
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