Posted on 05/25/2022 10:33:45 AM PDT by Heartlander
Our greatest fears have now seemed to materialize. The school closures, social dislocation, the two years of isolation, the lockdown psychosis, plus dehumanizing masking and the resulting anxiety, depression, and despair, may have unleashed and may have enhanced depraved and murderous behavior.
Two major incidents have been in the news but the trend is larger. The FBI reports that deaths from active shooter incidents have soared. In 2021, the number of deaths reported as a result of active shootings (103 total) was a 171% increase from 2020. The relationship to lockdown policies should be apparent to any objective observer.
Socially malevolent behavior is potentially driven by the severing of the social contract, socialization, social bonds, and support normally operational in a functional society. The lockdowns and school closures shatter a sense of the future, of belonging, of ‘mattering,’ a sense of loss and hope and dreams of tomorrow that then can drive depravity and wickedness.
With pliable minds in young people, these prolonged restrictive policies facilitated tragic pathologies.
Consider the 18-year-old kid who shot up an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, killing 19 young children, a teacher, and his own grandmother. Information is emerging by the hour, and we are still waiting on the motivations, but we already know the core problem: the gunman, filled with rage and hate, had been locked out of his school for a long period, denied essential social contact, support, and interaction that might otherwise have checked evil impulses.
With an open school and maskless students, with normal school days and no forced isolation, the teachers and administrators would have had a better chance at flagging him. In the midst of all the chaos and confusion, most people in his community came to believe that he had simply dropped out. The human being (potentially with or without already evil impulses) had become a monster who then revealed himself with massive carnage.
Similarly, a few weeks ago, a deranged 18-year old entered a TOPS grocery in Buffalo, New York and shot a reported 14 and killed 10 people. He was white and they, the dead, were black, though there are reports that two or three of those shot who survived (thus far), were white. He shot principally people based on their racial-ethnic makeup, being black. Raw, vicious hate.
Jeffrey Tucker of Brownstone Institute has perhaps done the most justice to these senseless acts and helped focus us onto a key implication of the failed COVID lockdowns. Tucker’s article focuses on the ravaging societal implications and how much the social isolation of the pandemic’s response can take a prior healthy mind and poison and destroy it, as it seemingly did with the Buffalo shooter, driving depths of racist depravity. A primitive, racist depravity that emerged after a sense of loss, social isolation, diminished and weakened hopes and dreams in the future, and the shattering of all that was normal and stable in a person’s life.
Before slaughtering people, the killer wrote:
“Before I begin I will say that I was not born racist nor grew up to be racist. I simply became racist after I learned the truth. I started browsing 4chan in May 2020 after extreme boredom, remember this was during the outbreak of covid…. I never even saw this information until I found these sites, since mostly I would get my news from the front page of Reddit. I didn’t care at the time, but as I learned more and more I realized how serious the situation was. Eventually I couldn’t take it anymore, I told myself that eventually I was going to kill myself to escape this fate. My race was doomed and there was nothing I could do about it.”
Tucker says that the Buffalo shooter conjured up a sense of belongingness via an “imagined artificial solidarity” with others of his clan with whom he had little if any contact; it was all in his deranged head.
Think of those who brought about these inhumane lockdown conditions. The laptop class operates so far removed from the consequences of their actions and disconnected from experiencing the ill effects of lockdowns directly, that they were willing to dispense with sacred rights and liberties of others. In so doing, they decimated societal rules, norms, moral codes, and social mores that took us several hundred years to fashion as part of good societies.
In addition, facial masks may have had a role in the actions of the depraved killers in both Buffalo and Uvalde. The constant mask wearing while in public may have broken the mind and severed the human connection, ending the silent but necessary communication that takes place between human beings.
So very much communication, emotion, care, tenderness, and non-verbal cues can be seen in each other’s faces. Unable to interact with others and unable to see faces when one does, we necessarily blunt compassion, connection, and empathy. It is entirely possible that young people were placed into sheer terror and loss as their entire social existence and connectedness were thereby shredded.
We now must mourn and grieve these tragedies and for the lost souls and their families. It is pain that defies any human discourse and it is now that we must turn to our gods and to each other for understanding, support, solace, and healing. It is our faiths and our communities that will get us through these senseless acts.
Is this Buffalo teen shooter and the Texas teen shooter the last such shooters? I fear not, as we may have damaged the minds of many people irreparably. There are grave consequences due to lockdowns and school closures, not only from a weakened immune system and the vast economic damage, but also due to the wrecked psyches of many young people.
Had the governments, policy makers, and covid Task Force officials heeded the early warnings on the disastrous lockdown and school closures, we may have been able to circumvent such tragedies. It is imperative now that we have urgent discussions that are broadened and include experts who bring alternative viewpoints to the table.
We may have opened Pandora’s box with these crushing school closures, forced masking, and lockdowns. The ramifications are beginning to emerge. Lockdown policies have damaged society, structurally and psychologically, and for a very long time to come. It might take the rest of the 21st century or longer for society to recover from the devastation of lockdown policies.
Gun control laws and proposals never have and never will have anything to do with crime reduction or public safety. They have always been about the subjugation of a segment of or society in general. The 2nd Amendment was in included in the Bill of Rights as a last defense against a tyrannical government like that of the lawless FJB Regime. He and his minions wanted to subjugate as many Americans as possible. One of many ways is to disarm them. With the obvious cowardice of Congressional leadership and the apathy and ignorance of half the people the day will soon be here where every American will have to make the individual, personal decision of living on their knees to an omnipotent government, or die if need be on their feet as a free man or woman.
Correlation IS NOT causation but interesting nonetheless.
These incidents ALWAYS happen in public schools. Just saying.
While it’s only normal for humans to try to find a broad-based, societal explanation for every major crime - and these days to pass a bunch of bogus laws designed to reassure the populace - a better idea in my opinion is to try to find out what led to each individual crime.
A man went crazy and shot a bunch of innocent little kids and their teachers - let’s find out how and why he - the individual - managed to do this rather than trying to find some uninvolved entity to heap blame on.
When people do stuff like this - it’s mostly males but I’m not blaming all males, OKAY?? - there’s always a lot of valuable information that gets left out of the “where, what, why, and how?” equation. Perhaps if reporting could be more concerned with what caused this one individual guy to go off, the news-consuming public might become more aware of factors in their lives and communities leading to a recurrence.
Like with a lot of these killers, people complain about them and there are issues with them before they actually go out and kill. They’re not just nice guys who suddenly one day decide to buy a gun and start wasting people.
The FBI has the time and resources to STAGE RIOTS and MASS SHOOTINGS. Sometimes I think they only track people they think are likely to snap and start shooting not because they are trying to prevent mass shootings, but because they seek to EXPLOIT these psychos (think Stephen Paddock: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Paddock), for one thing to conduct false flag type operations.
On American citizens.
Just think: What if all those man-hours, dollars, and resources could be spent to protect the public instead? Like they said in the “babylon bee” that one time: The FBI doesn’t really have an interest in solving crimes they have not staged themselves.
I’m not saying every poorly-socialized weirdo should be locked up for public safety. (Haha, I would be totally effed in that case.) But if they can put so much effort into tracking and harassing people for posting about the SARS-CoV2 “vaccinations” on facebook, why can’t they get some guy who posts “gangster” pics of guns and uses violent, inflammatory rhetoric on social media - you know what I mean, not talking about “Me and the boys went pheasant shooting today” but “I be cappin them m-f-in cops yo” - to come down to the cop station and answer some questions? Just so he knows his activity is not going unnoticed?
Yeah, the situation is already so jacked-up there’s scarcely any way to fix it. Cops who will stand by with their riot gear on and watch antif@gs beat on elderly folks are not going to be enthusiastic about knocking on doors where there might be armed terrorists.
Therefore: Journalists could be of so much help here. *sigh* In these cases they sometimes are - for example, letting us know that James Holmes’s (he’s the Colorado theater shooter) psychiatrist tried to alert police to his escalating psychotic symptoms and violent rhetoric to no avail.
But usually they’re all like, “Oh boy! Another mass shooting! How can I link this to some failure of the Democrat/Republican party!?”
And: If there is any way you can possibly do this, TAKE YOUR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOL. You know things are going to get worse before they get better. Given the heinous crap the average public school teaches these days, it’s definitely not worth the risk.
These murderers aren’t afraid.
They have to be made to be afraid.
We had a serial killer in my high school…..Wayne Nance.
Three people were murdered in the small city of Missoula, MT in the early 1970s.
A description was given of the killer.
Wayne rode the bus with my girlfriend.
He told her he had done the killings.
My girlfriend told me.
I thought Wayne was just being a dumbass to somehow impress my girlfriend.
I stopped Wayne in the hall on the second floor of our high school.
I told him I didn’t think he was funny and to stay away from my girlfriend.
He just looked at me and walked away.
Next day, Wayne’s toady came to me at lunch and told me Wayne was mad at me.
He also said that Wayne carried a big knife.
I told him, “You tell Wayne that if he pulls a knife on me I will take it from him and shove it up his ass.”
Never heard any more from Wayne.
No more murders and Wayne joined the Navy.
Someone should look at where he was stationed and see if there are some unsolved murders of women there.
I went into the Army.
Wayne came back to Missoula after leaving the Navy.
He started killing again.
He was finally killed while trying to commit two more murders.
My high school girlfriend is alive.
I am alive.
I think it’s because Wayne became afraid.
My thoughts, anyway.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_school_shootings_in_the_United_States
Looking at all the school shooting with more than 1-2 victims and all have one thing in common. Mental issues that were known by someone. Most also come from some sort of broken home. Some lived with grandparents. Quite a few killed a family member right before heading to the school.
The fall of marriage. Parents on drugs that can’t/won’t raise the kids. General cultural rot is the cost of sliding towards communism.
Still waiting to see a crazed shooter who hadn’t been in the hands of shrinks before going off.
His mono was a drug addict. No father in the home
Predictable outcome
You didn’t tell the police because???
Good thing it is near summer vacation. There is a high risk of copycat shooters trying to be famous.
I started thinking about Wayne and the description put out by the news.
Wayne fit the description.
I had my girlfriend tell the Vice-Principal about what Wayne said.
The police came and took Wayne out of school.
Wayne was back in school the next day.
They had given him a polygraph test and he had passed.
So, they released him.
A retired editor from the Wall Street Journal wrote a book about Wayne called To Kill And Kill Again.
The last chapter in the book was about the author asking a psychiatrist about Wayne.
The psychiatrist said that Wayne really wanted to kill some of the boyfriends of some girls in his high school.
Yep.
Old Wayne wanted to kill me.
Got it. Crazy how people ignore the signs.
My grand daughter got sent home from school for saying “can we kill her now” about another girl in class getting a perfect score in a math test. Her parents then made it so she cannot ride the bus, because their daughter is frightened of the 10 year old wisecracker.
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