mass shootings every fri/sat night in Chiraq, don't nobody seem to care bout that though...
Posted on 04/29/2021 8:41:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
Growing up in rural South Carolina on my family's farm, I developed a love, appreciation and, most importantly, a respect for firearms. To this day, I remain a collector of firearms and a supporter of the American right to keep and bear arms as enshrined in the Second Amendment. I was taught that safety is paramount to gun ownership, so I have always encouraged responsible gun ownership and use for all Americans. With that being said, I have noticed a disturbing trend in our country: an ever-increasing number of shootings and gun-related deaths. And while the quick response from some, namely the left-wing mainstream media and liberal politicians, is to ban weapons and become more restrictive, it appears to me that we have serious mental health and poverty issues contributing to gun violence. I don't believe that banning guns will result in any significant decline in shootings attributed to these two categories.
In the United States, since January 2021, we have had 195 mass shootings, with 245 people dying and approximately 731 wounded, according to the Mass Shooting Tracker. While it's important to acknowledge that there is not a universally accepted definition of what constitutes a "mass shooting," these numbers are staggering. They are some of the highest numbers in the industrialized world.
Let's contrast 2021 with when I was growing up, when mass shootings simply weren't a problem. I believe that this is the direct result of the era and the family structure: Parents were involved in their children's lives and children were taught discipline and respect. By and large, members of my generation were raised in households with two parents, and we were taught how to deescalate and talk things out when problems arose. Today, that no longer seems to be the case. We have a moral and social failing in our country that has caused an increase in mass shooters, predominantly young men. One has to pause to think about what's different today from 30 or 40 years ago. It certainly isn't guns, because it's harder to get guns today than it was in the past, when you didn't have to go through nationalized background checks. When I was growing up, you could purchase a firearm with no questions asked, yet we didn't see so many mass shootings.
Growing up in rural South Carolina on my family's farm, I developed a love, appreciation and, most importantly, a respect for firearms. To this day, I remain a collector of firearms and a supporter of the American right to keep and bear arms as enshrined in the Second Amendment. I was taught that safety is paramount to gun ownership, so I have always encouraged responsible gun ownership and use for all Americans. With that being said, I have noticed a disturbing trend in our country: an ever-increasing number of shootings and gun-related deaths. And while the quick response from some, namely the left-wing mainstream media and liberal politicians, is to ban weapons and become more restrictive, it appears to me that we have serious mental health and poverty issues contributing to gun violence. I don't believe that banning guns will result in any significant decline in shootings attributed to these two categories.
In the United States, since January 2021, we have had 195 mass shootings, with 245 people dying and approximately 731 wounded, according to the Mass Shooting Tracker. While it's important to acknowledge that there is not a universally accepted definition of what constitutes a "mass shooting," these numbers are staggering. They are some of the highest numbers in the industrialized world.
Let's contrast 2021 with when I was growing up, when mass shootings simply weren't a problem. I believe that this is the direct result of the era and the family structure: Parents were involved in their children's lives and children were taught discipline and respect. By and large, members of my generation were raised in households with two parents, and we were taught how to deescalate and talk things out when problems arose. Today, that no longer seems to be the case. We have a moral and social failing in our country that has caused an increase in mass shooters, predominantly young men. One has to pause to think about what's different today from 30 or 40 years ago. It certainly isn't guns, because it's harder to get guns today than it was in the past, when you didn't have to go through nationalized background checks. When I was growing up, you could purchase a firearm with no questions asked, yet we didn't see so many mass shootings.
We often hear or read arguments from the left about inner cities, such as Baltimore or Chicago, being examples of violence run amuck that highlight the need for more gun control. However, proponents of these measures don't always want to deal with poverty, family breakdown, education or economic opportunities. When people are better educated, financially secure and are happy with their family life and their community outlook, they are more likely to be constructive members of society and less likely to go down a dangerous path. Today, there is clearly a lack of pride, security, belonging and ownership that is so fundamental to continued success of any society. If we start focusing on those things and truly tackle them without making excuses or trying to blame everything on the system, I am confident that we may actually be able to solve the root of the problem.
We can acknowledge that we have a problem in our country with gun-related deaths and the young men who typically carry out such heinous acts. But with that discussion comes the responsibility to take a nuanced approach to finding the root of the problem. I can assure you that simply banning guns won't solve this multifaceted problem. Tackling mental illness and the problems in our inner cities are the exact steps we should be looking to take.
Mental health yes Dumping more taxpayer dollars into the Democrat run cesspools of crime and poverty won’t. Punishing criminals with an appropriate sentence no matter what their age or skin color MIGHT help. Using the police to ignore BLM/ANTIFA rioters but rather to target conservatives just ensures that in a few years the Democrats will have police with the “appropriate” Stassi/KGB/Gestapo mindset to fully implement the Democrats tyranny.
Jeez.
There is no ‘mass shooting pandemic.’
There is just Media attempting to whip up hoplophobic hysteria to support gun control.
Ping
mass shootings every fri/sat night in Chiraq, don't nobody seem to care bout that though...
In the 1960s Lyndon Baines Johnson and his legislative democrat henchmen wrote the welfare laws such that a female gets welfare, but she must kick out the father.
The more babies she has, the more she makes. This was Johnson's "great society war on poverty".
A few trillion dollars later, the democrats' plan is a failure as it keeps people on welfare, but a great success for democrats as they've used taxpayer money to buy the votes of welfare people, who don't even realize they are being kept down on the democrat plantation just as sure as if they were picking cotton.
Having no male role model in the family creates feral males who become gang members, bullies, thieves, rapists and killers.
I’d love to see a graph showing the number of mass shootings during Republican vs Democrat administrations.
Ever notice how mass shootings were rare, (but they did happen ever once in a while) before the insane asylums were closed?
I was looking for something similar. What I found was that “mass shootings” still occur regardless of political affiliation. What changes drastically is the reporting. Under Republican administrations, the media is eerily silent. Under Democrat administrations, every convenient shooting is a headline. I suspect this is due to the media’s force feeding of chaos to the public to try to whip up public sentiment and pressure on Congress to “do something.”
If you find any quantifiable statistics, please ping me. I’m very curious about this.
What the Democrats don’t want to admit is that the 2nd Amendment was about protection from tyranny of government as much as for personal protection.
Agree 100%
The disturbing trend miraculously shows up when biden steals the white house and the rats are in control
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