…Whatever it is, you can count on our elected officials to ignore it. Mass shootings are so normalized now, we are “taking turns”, “This could of happened anywhere in the world, unfortunately today was Orlando’s turn.” (quote from Senator Marco Rubio of Florida.)
Watch my favorite night time host, Samantha Bee take on this topic.
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6 responses to “What can we learn from the mass shooting in Orlando?”
We can learn that liberals like you and Samantha Bee will stand on the graves of children to push a political agenda like taking guns from law abiding citizens. That’s what we can learn.
You should be ashamed.
@Weenis “Stand on the graves of children”. Where did you find that right wing zealot talking point? Shame on you Yosemite Sam.
I gotta give it to you. You follow your marching orders well. You are a disgrace to true Christians. I mean that from the bottom of my heart.
@Gina
I got it from CNN…
One thing I would hope would be a learning is that, at the moment, the issue of why someone would WANT to kill others has not been studied to the depth it should be.
Knee jerk is gun control, but even with gun control, mass killings will continue with whatever mechanism is at hand. (fertilizer, vehicles, poisons of any variety).
There is a consistent reason that individuals want to make a violent statement and its time to go beyond the superficial and get to the root.
America has a deep issue that other societies of similar construct do not experience. It could be as simple as the assumption that every American shares of being the best. When a realization dawns on an individual that they are not being recognized as such; they may make the decision to do something about it.
It may be an irrational response, but it may not seem that way to someone who has been conditioned over their whole lives to believe they are automatically worthy from the moment they are born.
All the other responses to this issue, whether it is 2nd Amendment rights, to law abiding ownership to protect against non law abiders are all justifiable arguments to support gun ownership…and yet, with all the self righteousness that both sides of the debate claim; mass killings continue.
The same answers to the same questions haven’t moved this issue towards a solution. It’s time to identify the foundation of the issue.
One other wake up call that really needs to be recognized, is that the NRA is merely the puppet of the master. The NRA gets their money from two basic sources. Law Abiding membership and corporate sponsorship. That money for the political payoffs is filtered through the NRA, but those who financially benefit are the pockets that fund that pipeline. Pretty obvious and yet no one is calling the manufacturers to the carpet.
@spitfire3dc Not that we shouldn’t study what makes a killer snap, but the thing is people snap and loose their cool everywhere around the world. The problem is that it’s so darn easy for them, right now, to go on killing sprees in the US. The kid in Florida, Cruz, had autism and a lot of anti-social behavior that had been reported to the police. Yet he was still allowed to buy an assault rifle.
@georockstar09 controlling who can buy guns is only part of the solution. Like any law, there will be ways around it and some will even be legal. Loopholes will probably be built in by politicians doing what politicians do.
There is a need to get to the very root and in this case, because the answer may be too unpalatable for too many people, it may be approached with a bias that will make objective analysis impossible.
Regarding using anti social behaviors as a sign that someone is a danger to society; where does the current trend for adolescents to bury themselves in the security of their cell phones? Ask educators what the biggest problem in their schools are and they will point towards social media. Ironic eh?