Posted on 07/24/2012 8:25:06 AM PDT by neverdem
The shooting in Aurora, CO dominated the news this weekend, and not just in America. It was world news. The tragedy reminded me of a recurring question people have been pondering for at least a decade: why are so many of these incidents happening now?
The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence reports that the United States has experienced an average of around 20 mass shootings each year since 2005.
There was the rampage at Virginia Tech in 2007 that left 32 people dead. Only three days prior to the Aurora shooting, 17 people were injured in Tuscaloosa, Alabama after a gunman opened fire in a downtown bar, and one week before that, three people were killed and two were injured after another rampage erupted during a Dover, Delaware soccer tournament. The Fort Hood massacre occurred in 2009, two years after Virginia Tech, with 13 people losing their lives in that event.
The evidence is pretty clear that we are having far more mass shooting these days than we had in the past. You might want to make the natural jump to guns, as that is what the media will tell us to do. Guns are easy to blame. Relatively easy to get, guns make good culprits. But if people were killing people by driving into crowds with Chevy Volts, I suspect the media would not blame the Volt.
It should come as no surprise that the rise in mass killing sprees in America is in direct proportion to the rise in liberalism in American politics.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt was President of the United States, and we all trusted him to take very good care of us.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Unruh
Killed 13 in September 1949. Somewhat similar in psychological state as some of the more recent shooters.
Can anyone come up with mass shooting incidents in the 1940’s, during and after WWII?
Guns were all over the place, especially after the war, including lethal war souvenirs, yet, no spike in mass shootings/massacres.
How come?
Just asking.
After all, they can't be trusted. They turned against their own countrymen. The rest of us will run the machines to keep our dictator's castle in the sky. For the 'good of the whole'.
We losing the cultural war, esspecially in the news media, entainment and academia, IMHO.
I long for a return to mail order guns. I even miss cheap Norinco ammo.
As much as I agree to the notion that Liberalism is a mental (cognitive) disorder, I am not ready to make the causal leap that Liberalism is the cause of these shootings. Psychotic people have been with us for a very long time and have taken many innocent lives.
Sometimes disease is not externally evident, particularly diseases of the brain.
So far as I can tell, the deadliest mass murder in US history occured in 1927, long before modern liberalism took root.
Not everything is political. Not everything that happens in the world is going to confirm one's own political beliefs.
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