The perp had a human mind and THIS compelled his heinous behavior.
Blaming genetics is specious because our DNA did not evolve to include a gene for slaughtering children.
We seem to be living through an unprecedented period of severe mental illness in every phase of our lives, from irrational violence to sexual "orientation" confusion to drug addiction to homelessness... etc.
We are born with our brain development unfinished and our minds totally blank.
It takes years for a human being to begin to function somewhat independently.
This growth occurs in the context of a family.
If the family is dysfunctional the person's mental, emotional and behavioral processes with reflect this.
As a species we deny this psychological reality... perhaps because it suggests some degree of trouble deep within all of our minds.
After all... no family is perfect.
With you 100%
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I was raised in a very very Catholic family and was devout through graduation from ND.
But my mother suffered from severe mental illness and my father hid from this on the golf course and this caused me to become severely depressed as an adult.
Fortunately, I fell into a profound psychotherapy that enabled me to access and discharge my developmental conflicts and anxieties.
It also forced me to become the loving parent I never had.
Now I have beautiful children who are happily married and who are great parents.
I never gave them any religious experience.
I'm not critical of religion and I retain many of the religious values I was raised with.
But having a great family is unrelated to spiritual beliefs.
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But I'm not entirely comfortable with folks who "choose" celibacy.
Link: https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/bp-barron-hit-with-massive-backlash-after-praising-pro-lgbt-fr-james-martin/
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But, we like guns more than we like our kids. If we need to sacrifice a few dozen every coupla years, so be it.
You can’t have a “culture of life” alongside a “culture of guns.”
Link: https://www.vox.com/2015/8/27/9217163/america-guns-europe-homicide-rates-murder-crime
And is there a common underlying cause?
Availability of drugs or guns surely plays a role, but if you give the average person an AR-15 and a syringe of heroin, they're unlikely to use either. So there are more factors at play.
Russell Brand states in Recovery "Addiction starts with pain and ends with pain", it also cites a study that concludes that lab rats will choose social interaction over heroin or meth but in isolation they will overdose. I think it would be fair to say that violent crime also starts with pain and ends with pain. So besides guns, there are other underlying factors that need to be addressed.
Link: https://healthpolicy.usc.edu/article/american-drug-overdose-death-rates-the-highest-among-wealthy-nations/
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I’ll give you a hint: our problem rhymes with “Huns.”
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us: 288
mexico: 8
s africa: 6
india: 5
nigeria: 4
pakistan: 4
afghanistan: 4
canada: 2
france: 2
brazil: 2
Interesting
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Historically, governments have kill unarmed populations at a far greater rate than armed citizens have killed each other.
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homicide rate and some of the most restrictive gun laws. Gun laws do not stop gun violence. Culture does.
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Link: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm
your tenure.
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Back in the 70s/80s, newspapers in SF stopped publicizing suicide attempts off the bridge because they realized that the articles increased awareness and people were doing it to be recognized. National media coverage of mass shootings doesn’t help and likewise the arguing and virtue signaling that ensues.
Couple with isolation, social media and undiagnosed/untreated mental illness and it’s bad news. I tend to think that if guns went away, this tendency would manifest in other ways. So, it’s not necessarily a guns problem. It’s a schools and families problem. But the debate has been boiled down to that.
relevance there might be...turns out you had nothing bordering on reality...
>Using a bridge for a suicide is a tragedy for one troubled person who is not trying to physically harm anyone else...ergo, not a threat to society. Not publicizing such events does not compromise the public's safety, so it is a somewhat effective means of mitigating the allure of 'immortality' to those who contemplate such a dramatic end to their lives.
>Mass murderers are also troubled, but their actions definitely impact the lives of others in society, therefore it is essential that the media report on such events, if only to spur action to combat such behavior...I'm absolutely sure that if a child of yours was shot dead in their school room you would not be so sanguine about it.
>There is clear evidence demonstrated by numerous countries around the world that gun restrictions save lives...remove guns...especially assault weapons...and you don't experience the volume of mass murders that we do in the USA...our problem is a "Gun Problem"...we have way too many of them and they are unfortunately available to virtually anyone, regardless of their mental state.
>We need serious background checks...an effective national database...severe penalties for gun distributors that don't abide by restrictions...as well as other controls on a gun industry that trades personal pleasure for societal safety.
Of some broad ranging conversation and analysis.