People Really Scare Me

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I find it scary that people always blame the media for violence, especially school shootings, without examining other causes. Before movies and video games, violent stories were passed along orally for generations. Most fairy tails had violent endings before they were "cleaned up" in order to fit with modern ideas about what's appropriate for children.

Why isn't anyone asking what makes these kids so angry and hopeless that they choose to kill? How are they treated at school? How are they treated by their families? What is the role of the community? What increases violence? What decreases violence?

Oh, but those are hard questions. It's so much easier to blame a single law or facet of popular culture.

One could rationally argue that the majority of people don't even understand what the principal of causality is, regardless of whether or not that argument is truly correct.

1st world cultures are seriously messed up. The U.S. thinks a 'zero tolerance policy' is going to protect against school shootings, when all it really does is force students to give up their constitutional rights. Someone who wishes to engage in a school shooting is not going to worry about the zero tolerance policy; for them the penalty for engaging in such a crime will be extraordinarily similar with such a policy versus without. I wish the mainstream media were sympathetic to your argument, EvilkimEvil.

Humans. You gotta' love 'em!

























































*note: that last line was sarcastic

The definition has changed. I highly doubt the framers of the Constitution intended everyone to have the right to own weapons, not with the cynicism they held against the common people. People are too ignorant to decide for themselves, let alone own a gun. Ofcourse, blame the ambiguity of the Constitution.

By the way, I am far from leftist. I just believe there needs to be great restrictions on the amount of guns floating around; and I don't believe your claim that laws hinder/restrict the innocent. That sounds more like libertarian jargon.






Where did I claim that people should not own guns? I made my point that it should be limited. Hell, I'm getting my gun license this year.





No, it is a very strong indication that I'm not controlled by my emotions as much as people expect. I do feel something, but it is not enough to bother me.

I don't care about what happens in the US, because I don't live there.

How nice.

I remember when the school shootings starting happening, Columbine happened the year I graduated from HS. I have a younger foster brother who is in HS. It strikes me how locked down his schools have been. For him it has always been that way, ID cards, police in school, locked classrooms. This is a small town compared to where I grew up, yet when I was in school in that much bigger city, we didn't have all of that. Anyone could walk in and out of class, and in and out of school property.

I am familiar with what many of those kids went through, I was the same generation of the first school shooters, I was picked on in school as bad as those kids were yet I never would have even considered doing what they did. And I grew up with guns in the house, was taught to handle and use them from a time when I was so small I had to sit in my dads lap while he shouldered the gun for me. I also took meds such as prozac and much more potent ones during some of the worst times in my school years. I remember thinking about the victims "They didn't have to kill them".

Then I look at these university murders, once again people of my generation, even more senseless than the others. The only thing that I fear is that I have become desensitized, and I wonder if there is a whole new generation of kids growing up desensitized to these things, and what that will mean to the long run. I also wonder what it will mean for a whole generation to grow up to be accustomed to being on lock down as the "norm".

But these things don't scare me, that is what scares me.

Meh. At least we don't get crime here.

Like others have said in this thread and I've said in past threads, your protection is up to YOU.
All the police are going to do for you, once they get there, is draw a chalkline around your dead body. Maybe the killer will be caught and maybe not. Either way your still GONE.

Laws pertaining to the control of firearms don't do a thing to protect anyone. I assure you that you can go to the city with the toughest gun controls and find any kind of firearm you want if you have money. There always has been and always will be a black market for things that are illegal but desireable. Money talks and BS walks in this case just as it does in others.

Gun free zones are nothing but potential and very attractive shooting galleries for those who want to inflict death and suffering on others.