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Mass Shootings/Violence Isn't a Male Problem


It isn't a White problem. It's a MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEM.

That and a gun control issue, but whilst gun control is of paramount importance, and priority NUMBER ONE, I am simply focusing here on the issues that cause people to become violent in the first place, irrespective of gun access (and whilst guns access are liable to cause FAR MORE harm than say access to knives or even attempts to kill people with motor vehicles, save for those very rare occasions involving street parties/street protests where roads aren't sufficiently cordoned off with bollards/hard to access gates, violent/severely mentally ill people will still find a way to hurt a more *limited number* of people with other weapons, or indeed their fists).

We need to interrogate the reasons why so many people of ALL races and sexes, are turning to such extreme violence to begin with. Clearly it's NOT too much testosterone (judging by Audrey Hale, the Nashville shooter) or 'white privilege' (judging by, say, Frank Robert James, or any number of Muslim, Asian, and Black mass shooters in recent years). Yes, the vast majority are still white men, but clearly such violence/pathology is NOT EXCLUSIVELY a white male issue, and any IDIOT who analyses things from that perspective is ignoring numerous other mass shootings committed by other demographics.

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You just came to this conclusion? Yikes, Dawg.

Can we talk about the destruction of the home, and the removal of fathers now? Or do we have to wait a few more years for that light bulb to go off? πŸ’‘πŸ’‘πŸ’‘

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Here's my take:

https://moviechat.org/bd0000082/Politics/6422f45ecc5da616713c8d2f/TransShooter-to-Friend-Im-Planning-to-Die?reply=64236bdbcc5da616713c91df

Well said. Given enough data points I suspect the demographics of these events would closely match the demographics of the country, proving your point. While I think mental health is an appropriate way to describe it, it really all boils down to changes in U.S. culture, or what we might dub cognitive programming, and on various fronts, at that. For example, young black men are gunning each other down in the streets daily, so much so that they comprise over 50% of all homicides in the U.S. even though they're only 6% of the population (this gets largely ignored and rarely publicized). That's a cultural, generationally propagated problem that is a bit different from the emotionally fragile mass shooters whose tumultuous mental states elevate to the point of violence, and that do get highly publicized due to their nature and targets. There's different histories behind these two aspects of the mass shooting phenomenon. Despite that variance, they both stem from cultural devolutions that society as a whole has allowed to develop right before our eyes, fortified by pervasive self-interests.
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The problem is not guns. Guns are just the tool. The problem is the liberal policies that create such monsters in the first place. It's the policies that degraded the American family, destroyed personal responsibility, foment hopelessness among so-called marginalized groups and pushed a hands-off approach to both child rearing and law enforcement.

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