Well crap. this is seriously fucked up and I like most of you are stunned. I see a lot of people trying to figure out why we have this issue and how to stop it or fix it. We covered a lot of the gun contol issues in another thread and people are talking metal illness, and various other thoeorys. I don't have a fix for the problem but I do have an outside of the box theory on why we have these issue in todays society. I believe the root cause is our governments monetary policy and constant inflation. What you say? Here goes.... Think back to the 50's family structure. We had mostly single income family supported by the Dad with the Mom taking care of the kids. These kids had their Mom available to help nurture and support kids through their deveolpment and teaching them how to deal with issues. When inflation really kick started, once we got off the gold standard, the American family compensated by sending the Mom to work, at least part time, to make up the income difference. As time goes on and it bacame harder for these familys to make ends meat so the Moms became more and more career orientated spending less time at home to support their children emotionally so they could support their kids financially. Even when the parents were home they are often were so exhausted and not willing to deal with their kids. Each generation became less family oriented and more work oriented and with less parenting skills or abilities leading to a higher divorce rate and single parents with even less support for raising their children. Fast forward to the 90's where many more kids were raised by TV's and to the 2000's where TV's were replaced by video games and we are seeing an exponential increase in these types of troubled kids who are now becomeing young adults and have no copeing abilities.
Chicago, NYC, and DC have some of the strictest gun control laws, and they have the highest gun-related deaths by capita in the US.
"The man identified in media reports Friday as the shooter has told friends that he thinks his developmentally disabled brother may have committed the crime, Patch has learned." http://newtown.patch.com/articles/reports-of-shooting-at-sandy-hook-elementary-school
kind of disturbing how many Adam Lanza accounts have popped up on facebook in the last couple of hours. What's wrong with people?
Or not, school shootings and violent crime has been on a steady decline since the 1970s... but media coverage has gone up.
Some of the students thought a wild animal had gotten into the school and were eating kids. Heartbreak.
Yeah the local news details every violent crime but they skip the thousands of feelgood stories out there. This case is different; a kindergarden killing spree would be the top story in any time period.
man its the same thing you see in online games..without personal, face to face interaction, it is like living in a cartoon world. They feel that they can say and do anything and suffer no penalty.
"I don't know what we can do about it, but at least figuring out who they are would be a step in the right direction." Well, we've figured it out -- they're us. I mean they're human. I mean, they're animals. I mean, they're subject, to greater and lesser extents, to their emotional experiences and uncritical beliefs. Anyway, I like your idea of targeting the mentally ill. If more of us trained and carried concealed, greater chance these outbreaks would be nipped in the bud, so to speak.
You're right, and I'm sorry. I'm just hot as hell over this situation, and I'm definitely not thinking straight. I'm sorry for being so crass and poorly thought out.
If the kids were carrying assault rifles this could have been prevented Anyone that thinks gun laws don't need to be looked at is an idiot
