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Why So Many Mass Shootings? Ask The Right Questions And You Might Find Out
Townhall.com ^ | June 4, 2019 | Dennis Prager

Posted on 06/04/2019 3:49:44 AM PDT by Kaslin

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1 posted on 06/04/2019 3:49:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
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Mass shootings and the explosion of drug addicts have the same roots.


2 posted on 06/04/2019 3:51:54 AM PDT by Jim Noble (1)
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Add in prescription and other drugs, a much more violent culture such as hip hop and in movies, violent video games, our import of jihadis, and of course our IC false flags.


3 posted on 06/04/2019 3:54:01 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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To: Jim Noble

Precisely


4 posted on 06/04/2019 3:54:56 AM PDT by berry65
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To: Kaslin

I would BET he was on some prescription drugs for depression also! Also, lefty black men have a short trigger.


5 posted on 06/04/2019 3:55:49 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Kaslin

When the “educated elite” convinced the country that Judeo-Christian Morality was so “passe” and “unsophisticated”, and the leftist judicial system stripped it out of the schools by miss-interpreting the Constitution as “freedom from religion”, right and wrong not only blurred, but inverted.

The 2nd Ammendment has prevented the government organs who have been running open-loop for the past 20-years, from starting the night-time “visits” to remove “enemies of the state”.


6 posted on 06/04/2019 4:00:55 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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To: Ann Archy

Blacks have been conditioned since the introduction of the “Great Society”, to be perpetually aggreived and since Obama, to be encouraged to act out.


7 posted on 06/04/2019 4:02:14 AM PDT by Redleg Duke (We live on a tax farm as free-range humans!)
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He left out an important point. The insidious expansion of gun control has given mass shooters the confidence that very few citizens would be in a position to shoot back. Where Charles Whitman had to duck to avoid return fire from armed civilians on the UT campus, a mass shooter on that campus today would only have to worry about cops in what is now a gun-free zone.


8 posted on 06/04/2019 4:02:31 AM PDT by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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Progressivism creates an anything goes society which is celebrated... Then when “anything goes” they blame constitutional and Christian values as the cause of everything. Marxism 101....


9 posted on 06/04/2019 4:04:58 AM PDT by mikelets456
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Many of the mass murderers are seeking their fifteen minutes of fame, but it is much easier for politicians to blame inanimate guns.

Facebook capitalizes on the drive for fame of its members.


10 posted on 06/04/2019 4:07:24 AM PDT by monocle
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To: Redleg Duke

Bingo!


11 posted on 06/04/2019 4:08:58 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Population in 1950 about 150 million. Population increase about 2 times. 10 x2 is 20 mass shootings expected. According to article about 30.


12 posted on 06/04/2019 4:10:14 AM PDT by Raycpa
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In the 20th century, every decade before the 1970s had fewer than 10 mass public shootings. In the 1950s, for example, there was one mass shooting. And then a steep rise began. In the 1960s, there were six mass shootings. In the 1970s, the number rose to 13. In the 1980s, the number increased 2 1/2 times, to 32. And it rose again in the 1990s, to 42. As for this century, The New York Times reported in 2014 that, according to the FBI, “Mass shootings have risen drastically in the past half-dozen years.”

Given the same ubiquity of guns, wouldn’t the most productive question be what, if anything, has changed since the 1960s and ‘70s? Of course it would. And a great deal has changed. America is much more ethnically diverse, much less religious. Boys have far fewer male role models in their lives. Fewer men marry, and normal boy behavior is largely held in contempt by their feminist teachers, principals and therapists. Do any or all of those factors matter more than the availability of guns?

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I think another factor is media coverage. Mass shootings are good for ratings.


13 posted on 06/04/2019 4:10:14 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Facts are racist.)
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The Left’s policies are behind the rise in gun violence.


14 posted on 06/04/2019 4:12:55 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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Lack of REAL mental healthcare in the US!


15 posted on 06/04/2019 4:20:28 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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Almost all the shooters were on some kind of "prescription" drugs.

Can hardly wait until half the nation is smoking pot. The only reason rec pot is being legalized is because of the Tax money to come.

16 posted on 06/04/2019 4:23:01 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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The public has every right to know what prescriptions the murderers are taking.


17 posted on 06/04/2019 4:23:22 AM PDT by Baldwin77 (They hated Reagan too ! TRUMP TOUGH - AMERICA STRONG)
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Every American asks why. What was the killer’s motive? When we read there is “no known motive,” we are frustrated.

No we are not. The media is. The media wants us to be. The specific moment issue or items that set a person off really has no bearing on the situation. Evil does not require a motive to be evil. Mentally ill can be set off by something as simple as a look or a perceived look! Doesn’t change anything.


18 posted on 06/04/2019 4:23:29 AM PDT by 48th SPS Crusader (I am an American. Not a Republican or a Democrat)
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Copycat.
Loss of sense of values.
Anger, frustration and rage.

NOT availability of guns.


19 posted on 06/04/2019 4:26:38 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Islam, not a religion, a totalitarian political ideology aiming for world domination. -Wilders)
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To: Redleg Duke
I always read the replies from the townhall.com readers, One reader claimed that the supreme court declared that the 10 commandments are unconstitutional.,p.What the supreme court did was that the 10 Commandments could not hang in Kentucky court houses

US Supreme Court Rules on Ten Commandments Displays

Not in Kentucky Court Houses

Source

20 posted on 06/04/2019 4:30:44 AM PDT by Kaslin
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