It's the popular thing to do to report on shootings these days. While my position is somewhere in the center on "gun control", those on the "anti-gun" side are doing all they can to get every single shooting out in the media, so it LOOKS like the shootings are increasing. It's political. It's fear-mongering. Keep that in mind.

I feel very much for every child on this planet. But guns didn't kill them, a human did. And possibly there was a power structure behind that human, ie. an agenda. In Switzerland, everyone is armed and there is almost no crime.

Non gun violence goes up when people are unarmed, they're preyed upon.

Originally posted by Lady_Tuatha




Seems to be all I am seeing in the news these days with regards to America.

Shootings have gotten out of control over there!

That's what the proponents of gun control would like you to think. The reality is that violent crimes are down.

This is sensationalist propaganda and you're drinking the kool aid. Don't let them play you!

Originally posted by Benevolent Heretic
It's the popular thing to do to report on shootings these days. While my position is somewhere in the center on "gun control", those on the "anti-gun" side are doing all they can to get every single shooting out in the media, so it LOOKS like the shootings are increasing. It's political. It's fear-mongering. Keep that in mind.

edit on 2/6/2013 by Benevolent Heretic because: (no reason given)

Thank you, BH!

While many of us may not be on the same side in some of these arguments, we should remember that we are all being taken for a ride!

how many shootings have there been in Colorado thus far?

Hey guys, I've got a wonderful idea.
Lets take all the guns out of the law abiding citizens hands so the only people left with guns are criminals and the government.

Yeah, great idea.

/sarc

Clearly, those kids that died should have been trained on how to use a gun when they were infants. It would have solved everything.

Violent crime, all crime for that matter, is down as compared to past decades - with one notable exception, spree killing/mass murders. Those are quite statistically higher in recent years.

From a psychological standpoint it seems pretty evident to me the method to this madness. People who are mad at other people possess the potential to become murderers. People who are simply mad - and cannot quite find a target for their anger - possess the potential to become mass murderers.

There has been a lot of speculation ( from myself included ) as to why this phenomenon is becoming the rule and not the exception and I honestly think that there are multiple factors at work here. SSRI's can explain a number of the spree killings - but not all of them. Bullying can explain a few more. Lack of social status in a culture that is increasingly fixated upon realistically unreachable ideals ( for most of us ) marks off a few more. Many also seem to have a secondary cause in disenfranchisement and powerlessness. Folks can say it ain't so all day long - but the "American dream" has become very, very difficult to obtain. It's still possible to make it without being born with a silver spoon - but it's not nearly as possible as it was a generation ago. Throw into the mix the fact that simply voicing concerns about this increasingly exclusive society is considered "unPC" - effectively silencing people from venting? Well... take one, some, or all of the above, throw them together and you've got the recipe for a young male, standing in public, shooting at everything that moves.

Thus, in summary, spree killers today are a manifestation of a broken medical system, complicated by an exclusionary elitist class, and sealed with the fact that commentary upon any of it will be judged quite harshly and usually leads to ostracism and ridicule.

~Heff