Posted on 05/27/2022 10:41:08 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
At a press conference Wednesday in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Gov. Greg Abbott almost said something profound. Almost.
Asked by reporters about gun laws in Texas, Abbott responded by talking about the need for more “mental health-resources” — a catch-all term often bandied about by Republican politicians in the wake of mass shootings like the one in Uvalde, in which 19 elementary school kids and two teachers were killed by a deeply disturbed 18-year-old.
Abbott, though, began going in a different direction with his response. He noted that 18-year-olds have been able to buy rifles in Texas for more than 60 years, and then asked: “Why is it that the majority of those 60 years we did not have school shootings and we do now?”
But then he stopped short, saying, “The reality is I do not know the answer to that question.”
Maybe Abbott really doesn’t know. Maybe it’s too much to expect an unimaginative politician like him to delve into the myriad forces of social and cultural decay that produce 18-year-old mass murderers. Maybe he was just trying to deflect questions from a hostile press corps.
After all, in the wake of school shootings, GOP politicians tend to snap into a defensive crouch as predictably as Democrats tend to regurgitate irrelevant talking points about gun control, as President Biden did earlier this week. So maybe that’s all this was.
But whether he meant to or not, Abbott’s comments approached the heart of the matter. Indeed, he could have made an even more expansive claim. Texas has been awash in firearms of all kinds for two centuries, ever since the first American empresarios began arriving in Texas at the invitation of the newly formed Mexican Republic. For the past 60 years or so, there...
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This article could have been a book about all the liberal causes of child shooters. Liberalism creates these shooters. They eliminate fathers, discourage marriage, encourage female student success while denigrating male success. They eliminate school protection officers and blame us when things go bad.
Liberals attack God’s authority, police authority and now parental authority. Liberals shut down the schools and isolated children. They encourage children to question their gender and enter a fantasy world of perversion.
What a hideous picture. It almost made me physically Ill to look at her.
Yes, tens of millions play them, but it only takes one out of a million to become so desensitized to the violence that he decides to act it out in real life.
I’d add vulgar rap music doing the same desensitization to violence.. Actually, in fact, they glorify violence.
Note that many of our morals and violence problems trace back to the “Motion Picture Production Code,” (aka, the “Hays Code”) the industry guidelines for the self-censorship of content that was applied to most motion pictures released by major studios in the United States from 1934 to 1968.
Note that vulgar, extremely violent rap music and first person shooter games sprang up after the end of the Hays Code and the rise of personal computers, networks, the Internet, and HTML.
Maybe the only way back is to build our own modern coliseums and have gladiators fight to the death every Sunday.
Just how do you think they became mentally ill?
Great list, but let’s not forget the failure of the police , at least in this case.
I don’t know. I am the mother of one of them.
But what has caused the breakdown of the family and absentee fathers? One reason, of course, is the loss of faith. Another, I would argue, is the loss of men and women were created as men and women in order to come together and form families. Rather we have been trained to live selfish lives whose only good is self-actualization without commitments and personal sacrifices. We can see this played out in so many problems in society today.
So very true and sad.
The exact causes of schizophrenia are not known, but appear to be a complex mix of genetic factors, environmental stresses, drug use, viruses, adverse life events, etc. Ditto for bipolar, except genetics seem to play a stronger role. Some kids have brain damage from maternal drug or alcohol abuse before they were born. There is no single cause.
“School Shootings Aren’t Caused By Faulty Gun Laws But By The Collapse Of The Family”
And the rest of the culture rot we’ve allowed to get a foothold and spread.
My child had every advantage but still wound up mentally ill.
Yes, but what do you think is the root cause of the police not going toward the sound of the gun? Maybe the incessant racial politics that makes it impossible for them to do their jobs without fear of reprisal and loss of career?
I doubt all the police were cowards hunkered down.
It’s really disappointing that one cop thought to himself “Screw orders. I’m going to do the right thing no matter what.”
Mental illness can happen to children from the best of homes. Just as dementia can happen to the smartest, kindest most successful adults. Sometimes, there is nothing and no one to blame, no matter how much we want to blame something or someone.
I am so very sorry about your child. I cannot the heartbreak. Or the terrible stress you must be under.
Wow, it sounds like they are getting close to realizing that psychotropic drugs and various recreational drugs can’t take the place of a father in the home, doesn’t it?
they?
Let’s not forget the constant messages Hollywood sends that problems are solved with violence. The average child has heard and seen countless murders on TV before they go to Kindergarten. The violent shows may be on late but the commercials are on all day.
..And if they were, we will likely never be told that they have joined the legions of other young men drugged out of their
minds to the point of murderous rampage.
The psychopaths who committed the mass murders also craved public attention. They seem to want negative attention the most. They want to be notorious. The want the world to be afraid of them. They want to be spoilers against the lives of law abiding people.
The media companies are much to blame for publicizing them so much. Mass murdering psychopaths crave that publicity.
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