Been sitting here thinking about this. Why now? Why only in America? Why is there an exponential increase at this current time in the US?
For several years now in the US, the Party of Hatred and Fear have been preaching their hatred and fear. Kids are like sponges, and they soak up whatever you teach them. If you only teach them hatred and fear, never balancing that out with any hope, that is what they will learn and act upon. I think it is possible that this is a misguided attempt by these kids (who are likely unstable to begin with due to factors mentioned in my previous post) to generate their own hope that is not being supplied to them, an effort to "do something" to make it better based upon what they are being force fed daily.
Now, the Party of Hatred and Fear are screaming "Nonono! It's the GUNS, idiot! It's because the GUNS are so freely available in America. I hate guns, and I fear guns - if we just get rid of them, everything will get all better!" But would it, really? Would it really get better when all they are feeding the kids is hatred, fear, and servitude? Is it really just the availability of guns in the US? I think not.
I firmly believe that since the collapse of the Soviet Union, guns have been just as freely available in Russia, and yet they don't experience the same phenomena. I recall that in 1996, I could buy an American made AR-15 in Russia that I could not legally buy in America, the nation of it's birth and manufacture... and the demand was so high in Russia that there was a 4 month long waiting list.
Firearms are also freely available in a small number of other places around the globe, yet they do not suffer the same problems as the US... so is it really "just the guns"? What else is different?
The Party of hatred and Fear, that's what is different. The party of No Hope and No Change, and their preaching to young minds being molded.
That is the main difference I see, and I think that may be a good place to start looking for root causes.
Maybe they can get good ol' Heels-Up Harris right on that root cause, eh? After all, she did a helluva job with getting at the root cause of the border invasion, didn't she? No, wait....
ETA: I think they are barking up the wrong tree in going after implements rather than reduction of perpetrators. As history shows, the absence of implements of destruction do not lessen violence, as perpetrators thereof will always find a way. A mere 19 men armed only with box cutters threw the entire US into a 20 year war costing thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, and nary a shot was fired in that catalyst event.
So they, the party in power, have no intention of addressing violent people. It is built right into their lexicon - "gun violence" rather than simply "violence" - it's just an attempt to shift the blame to an inanimate object and away from the pet criminals they are creating to cow the rest of us with. They seem instead to have a vested interest in creating more of them, while simultaneously disarming their victims all in a effort to maintain and increase their power over us peons using criminals as a bludgeon. That will backfire. Eventually, when crime is bad enough and no one is any longer able to defend themselves from it, the same peons WILL find a way to remove the power from the despots who created that situation. It's a matter of self-preservation at that point.
History shows that to always happen, too.
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For several years now in the US, the Party of Hatred and Fear have been preaching their hatred and fear. Kids are like sponges, and they soak up whatever you teach them. If you only teach them hatred and fear, never balancing that out with any hope, that is what they will learn and act upon. I think it is possible that this is a misguided attempt by these kids (who are likely unstable to begin with due to factors mentioned in my previous post) to generate their own hope that is not being supplied to them, an effort to "do something" to make it better based upon what they are being force fed daily.
Now, the Party of Hatred and Fear are screaming "Nonono! It's the GUNS, idiot! It's because the GUNS are so freely available in America. I hate guns, and I fear guns - if we just get rid of them, everything will get all better!" But would it, really? Would it really get better when all they are feeding the kids is hatred, fear, and servitude? Is it really just the availability of guns in the US? I think not.
I firmly believe that since the collapse of the Soviet Union, guns have been just as freely available in Russia, and yet they don't experience the same phenomena. I recall that in 1996, I could buy an American made AR-15 in Russia that I could not legally buy in America, the nation of it's birth and manufacture... and the demand was so high in Russia that there was a 4 month long waiting list.
Firearms are also freely available in a small number of other places around the globe, yet they do not suffer the same problems as the US... so is it really "just the guns"? What else is different?
The Party of hatred and Fear, that's what is different. The party of No Hope and No Change, and their preaching to young minds being molded.
That is the main difference I see, and I think that may be a good place to start looking for root causes.
Maybe they can get good ol' Heels-Up Harris right on that root cause, eh? After all, she did a helluva job with getting at the root cause of the border invasion, didn't she? No, wait....
ETA: I think they are barking up the wrong tree in going after implements rather than reduction of perpetrators. As history shows, the absence of implements of destruction do not lessen violence, as perpetrators thereof will always find a way. A mere 19 men armed only with box cutters threw the entire US into a 20 year war costing thousands of lives and trillions of dollars, and nary a shot was fired in that catalyst event.
So they, the party in power, have no intention of addressing violent people. It is built right into their lexicon - "gun violence" rather than simply "violence" - it's just an attempt to shift the blame to an inanimate object and away from the pet criminals they are creating to cow the rest of us with. They seem instead to have a vested interest in creating more of them, while simultaneously disarming their victims all in a effort to maintain and increase their power over us peons using criminals as a bludgeon. That will backfire. Eventually, when crime is bad enough and no one is any longer able to defend themselves from it, the same peons WILL find a way to remove the power from the despots who created that situation. It's a matter of self-preservation at that point.
History shows that to always happen, too.
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’