Republicans propose mass student surveillance plan to prevent shootings

[Nanfeishen]

You Looney

You may think that , but dig deeper into the causation and correlation between sexual repression and violence. Then take a hard deep look at American society, versus other countries regarding sexuality , age of consent, views on sexuality, acceptance of various preferences, etc etc , and one can see the article is addressing something very real.

 

[Eniigma]

You may think that , but dig deeper into the causation and correlation between sexual repression and violence. Then take a hard deep look at American society, versus other countries regarding sexuality , age of consent, views on sexuality, acceptance of various preferences, etc etc , and one can see the article is addressing something very real.

Those things have been part of the US since it was formed. It's only in the last 20 years or so there has been a huge uptake in these events.

Personally I think the answer is somewhere in the hot mess of meds, social media, errosion of traditional family values and roles, removal of physical discipline, fatherless children, etc that have over the last 2 generations led to the situation we have today. I don't think any one of those is a cause on it's own but together they have created this soup of lonely, bullied kids who lack role models, discipline, structure and intengrity in their lives. So some cry out for attention and fame and meaning through these actions. Their faces and names and every sordid detail of their lives gets plastered for the whole world to see 24/7 for a week or so, it's the ulitmate fame for them in a sick and twised way. Others try in other ways, acting out in more "traditional" ways of drugs, criminal activities like shoplifting and self harm.

Now days I'd say america is anything if sexually repressed, the explosion of the porn industry, instagram thots models, social media, etc. Hell in my day, telling someone to eat my bumm was an insult, now it's legit sexaul choice.

 

[Urist]

How about they stop giving the attention seeking incels what they want by making a fuss about them.

 

[OrbitalDawn]

Those things have been part of the US since it was formed. It's only in the last 20 years or so there has been a huge uptake in these events.

Personally I think the answer is somewhere in the hot mess of meds, social media, errosion of traditional family values and roles, removal of physical discipline, fatherless children, etc that have over the last 2 generations led to the situation we have today. I don't think any one of those is a cause on it's own but together they have created this soup of lonely, bullied kids who lack role models, discipline, structure and intengrity in their lives. So some cry out for attention and fame and meaning through these actions. Their faces and names and every sordid detail of their lives gets plastered for the whole world to see 24/7 for a week or so, it's the ulitmate fame for them in a sick and twised way. Others try in other ways, acting out in more "traditional" ways of drugs, criminal activities like shoplifting and self harm.

Now days I'd say america is anything if sexually repressed, the explosion of the porn industry, instagram thots models, social media, etc. Hell in my day, telling someone to eat my bumm was an insult, now it's legit sexaul choice.

None of those issues are unique to the US, or have any direct causal link to gun violence, though. European countries that followed the same secularised, liberal societal trends don't have any of the gun violence problems the US does. What they do have is a much more coherent and comprehensive gun control regimen. And that includes regulation and enforcement around fitness to be armed, ammunition, competency, etc.

And one of those paradoxical things about this issue is crime and violence overall in the US and elsewhere have gone down dramatically over the last couple of decades. Mass shootings has remained relatively stable.

Regarding what works, there's quite a bit of evidence.

The research is clear: gun control saves lives

The Washington Post’s viral anti–gun control piece gets a lot wrong.

www.vox.com

Last year, researchers from around the country reviewed more than 130 studies from 10 countries on gun control for Epidemiologic Reviews. This is, for now, the most current, extensive review of the research on the effects of gun control. The findings were clear: “The simultaneous implementation of laws targeting multiple firearms restrictions is associated with reductions in firearm deaths.”

The study did not look at one specific intervention, but rather a variety of kinds of gun control, from licensing measures to buyback programs. Time and time again, they found the same line of evidence: Reducing access to guns was followed by a drop in deaths related to guns.

And a lot of people read this and think it's just focusing on guns, but it's not. It's about the existing laws and policies that aren't even implemented coherently across the country. They've got a gun tracing system, for example, but it's forbidden by law to use computers. It's pre-historic by design, and it doesn't work.

So what I mean by that is that it's not even about new laws, necessarily. It's about fixing the system around the ones they already have.