Posted on 06/15/2022 6:47:14 AM PDT by grundle
Shop assistants pose with various handgu
Shop assistants pose with various handguns at the Defense and Sporting Arms show at a shopping mall in Manila on July 16, 2009. Credit - TED ALJIBE/AFP via Getty Images
Mass shootings are a result of a confluence of factors, but at the heart of the problem are guns—of which the Philippines has plenty. Firearms are sold openly in malls, and almost anyone can carry them, even priests and accountants.
For now, though, powerful social factors continue to have a restraining effect on indiscriminate violence. Philippine academic Raymund Narag, a criminology associate professor at Southern Illinois University and a former prisoner himself, says mass shootings in his native country are in part deterred by hiyâ, a Tagalog word meaning shame or embarrassment. Avoidance of hiyâ, and sparing one’s family and community from it, is often described as a core Philippine value.
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Hammers are ziptied shut. But you’re right.
Surprised the state allowed him to die a natural death in the loony bin some 60 years later.
“But I can see her painted fingernail, so it is not on the trigger.”
The frame hides part of the bent finger so the bent finger is inside the guard. Most times when a finger is inside the guard it is resting on the trigger.
To me, that indicates a bad practice by a gun handler or maybe he is not and just put in for the photo.
We obviously are not, but whose fault is that? Those Africans didn’t float over here themselves.
Well the breakdown of shooters by race matches up with the composition of the American public.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/476456/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-race/
Rich or poor, family and respect within the family are an accepted majority cultural norm in the Philippines.
Unfortunately it is also carried to an excess at times with a pretense toward that norm. Many couples whose marriage has fallen totally out of love do not divorce because divorce is still outlawed, but instead keep up the pretense of the marriage while one or both spouses have a permanent affair outside the marriage. Then comes the children from the affair and the pretense gets harder over the years, but is often continued anyway. A law was submiited in 2021 to legalize divorce, but it has not cleared the Philippine legislature yet.
“Hammers are ziptied shut. But you’re right.”
Two on left are exhibiting correct technique and look confident. Obviously trained and practiced.
Two on right I think are just in for the photo.
We are no longer allowed to “shame” people. Nothing we do, feel, or say should ever have “shame” attached to it according to modern liberal sensibilities.
This is a patently horrific thing to have happen to a Society.
Fat, gay, stupid, insane, licentious, irreverent... Pick your philosophy/theology and you can come up with any number of things that we USED to consider as “shameful”, that we are now told we MUST accept.
F*ck all that. Let people be free to act SHAMEFULLY, but then allow the rest of us the equal freedom to castigate them for being shame worthy...
My friend is a ship’s Captain and travels all over the world. He was struck by very little children playing outside with supervision by slightly older kids in the Philippines. The locals told him the kids are safe because the people “take care of” the pedophiles and human traffickers themselves. No LE required.
See post 69
Unruh: Middle High German ‘careless’, ‘negligent’.
At first reading, I would seen “unpeaceful”.
Homgeneous
Fear that your father would beat your ass (or your mother would tongue-lash you) for doing something they disapproved of will continue to moderate your behavior long after both parents are in the grave.
On the other hand, raise a child to have no sense of guilt and to ignore all common-sense social controls and you have the makings of a sociopath.
My girlfriend is from the Philippines, and she was surprised at this claim that the Philippines are awash with guns. She says they were very rare in her experience. But her family lives far from Manila.
My folks and I were in a cab in Manila back in 1960. A cab driver behind our cab “bumped” the rear of our cab and our driver got out, pulled a Army .45, and emptied it at the other driver.
The other driver produced an identical .45 and emptied it in our direction.
Both men got back in their seats and drove away. Not a single gunshot laanded on either cab
FYI You do have to be a citizen to buy a gun in the PI. IOW you have to get your girl friend to buy it for you.
Duterte killed ‘em and the world cringed.
see ya.
see ya
Bkmk
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