OT Shooting at Texas High School, 8 dead.

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  1. bodyman5000 and 1

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    Gotta love GOP logic

    Wait does fewer abortions = more school shootings
     
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    I don't know about the GOP's logic.
    What is your logic Chris?

    Why is this happening?
    It seems these school shooters share some common attributes;

    All are young.

    All are Males.

    All are White.

    Most seem to be without a father they live with, don't know about this latest in Texas.

    What could be happening to cause young white male difficulty in transitioning to manhood?
    Why do they pick Schools for targets?

    What is happening to this segment of the population that does not affect, females, Black people, Hispanic People, or other minorities?
    Is it something at School?
     
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    According to @Natebishop3 this has always happened, we just never knew about because we didn't have the internet.

    The obvious solution is to get rid of the internet.
     
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    Perhaps the internet is a factor. Maybe not a cause, but a factor.

    It hasn't always been happening either. Only about the last 20 years. About as long as we have had Gun Free Zones.

    But why such a narrow group of people to become the culprits?
     
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    Maybe we need to stop picking and choosing what parts of the 2nd amendment we go with?

    "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

    Maybe if you want to own guns - serve your country for a certain amount of time - maybe a year?

    Army, Navy, Police force, Air force, National Guard - where you will properly trained in the use of these arms, and hopefully, if you have mental issues - they will be found by professionals during this service time...

    Just an idea.
     
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    Wrong?

    I suppose It depends on your agenda.
    I suppose you are speaking of when a "gun" is use to kill a person in a school.

    I am speaking of when young shooter began doing mass shootings turning a school into a killing zone.

    Seems like it sort of began with this one;

    May 21, 1998 Springfield, Oregon 4 23 Thurston High School shooting: After killing his parents at home, 15-year-old Kip Kinkel, drove to Thurston High School, where he killed two students and wounded 23 others.[303] After pleading guilty, he was sentenced to 111 years of prison.[307]

    But I will leave you to pursue your agenda.
     
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    We have gun laws, need to enforce them.
    Need to ADD to them: stricter laws on locking up guns, keep ammo and gun locked up, maybe separately, secure schools better, identify fucking psycho kids and yes, profile the shit out of them because they are all 15-18 white males who all had red flags. Sick of this shit. Mental evaluation mandatory of all kids every two years starting in 6th grade, DO SOMETHING for Christ’s sake
     
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    Gun laws didn't keep this kid from going home, getting dad's guns and ammo and going to school....nobody checked to see if he could have guns and be responsible...he took them from his own home. Apparently he was bullied....still no reason to kill people but that's the excuse being used currently
     
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    Which is why I said we need additional laws. Extend laws and punishment to family members and schools who don’t do enough to identify these kids, handle it, and secure their school. When some parent of a murdered kid sues a school district because you can waltz into a school likes it’s a Walmart and fire away maybe they’ll take it seriously.
     
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    One of his first victims was a girl who "rejected" him publicly. Its still early but stories Ive been reading seem to point to him harassing her to the point of her getting fed up and publicly humiliating him to get him to back off.
     
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    I think the subculture of toxic masculinity is to blame here and in lots of shootings.
     
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    Perhaps you maybe coming close.
    But why only White males?
    I suppose it is possible the numbers are still in alignment but I suspect not.
    What is the pressure on these young white males that black males do not succumb to? Hispanics either?
    Most seem to be fatherless or father not in daily life, but then more Black male are in this situation than the White kids. Zero Black mass shooters?
    Hard to ignore that number.

    But then, maybe it is just the way it is, and we need to take specific precautions and pay attention to signals, to prevents this ultimate manifestation.

    https://tonic.vice.com/en_us/article/mb35b8/is-anxiety-a-white-people-thing

    https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/46549...llness-and-consider-suicide-than-other-races/

    But then, white girls, zero shooters?
     

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