[Political Junkie Too]

I had a post in early 2001 called "My Theory On Why The School Shootings Are Occuring." Sadly, all my posts prior to September, 2001 were lost in an FR crash/rebuild.

The summary of my post from 17 years ago is this:

1. Schools, due to budget cuts and new social justice curricula, were doing away with physical education, band, recess (some schools banned playing tag and dodgeball), playground equipment, and other activities designed to expend youthful energy.
2. Students were entering puberty and adolescence, their bodies were growing rapidly, their hormones were changing, and they needed outlets during the day to expend excess energy. These classroom breaks were rapidly being taken away.
3. Teachers, in an attempt to "control" classrooms from increasingly "unruly" students, would label kids with attention-deficit disorder, and have the children put on Ritalin, Lithium, or other psychiatric drugs, to suppress fidgeting and other energy release behaviors in the classroom.
4. The children, now with loss of outdoor social activities and instead put on these psychiatric drugs, have their emotions dulled and lose the opportunity to learn valuable social skills from playing with other boys and girls in unstructured free time. See this recent article The Fragile Generation on the value of unstructured free time.
5. After graduation from high school, these children are taken off the school-prescribed psychiatric drugs, "get woke," and now find themselves thrust into the adult world without having the free and clear-minded adolescent years to develop the necessary social skills to navigate relationships with other people.
6. Simple perceived slights, such as being rejected on a date (or even getting up the nerve to ask someone out), being "dumped" for another suitor, being insulted by another, coming in last in a game, become magnified into major confrontations requiring the "dis" to be avenged, because they never learned how to manage disappointment as children.
7. Because these angry, "disrespected" young adults still have the emotional development of post-puberty adolescents, they lash out in rage and tantrums instead of reflection and learning from mistakes to do better next time.
8. Some become "snowflakes," behaving irrationally in adult situations. Others reach for the gun to "show everyone," and to solve their problem "once and for all."

In my opinion, not much has changed in the last 17 years to change my mind.

-PJ

[Ban Draoi Marbh Draoi]

Add to that the hate speech and rhetoric against white males — which creates an explosion just waiting to happen.