justin_o_guy2 wrote on 05/20/18 at 19:48:18:


I've been extremely busy at work for past two months or so and haven't checked in after my latest "never coming back" departure.

Jog; I'm nominating you for Sainthood for sticking around!

I'm home this week for a change and decided to check back because despite all the people I talk to over the whole country, I just never, ever run into the leftist people like I see on here. Never. Where are you people?....  Where do you hide all day?

Another school shooting, another round of predictable responses. Save the kids from guns.....  Some stupid awards show was on last night and I walked in while the wife was watching in long enough to see some guy with a "Save the Guns" shirt on where the word gun was crossed out and Children written in. Clever.

Here's my thought: I just checked and in 2016 there were 263 teen deaths (15-19) directly related to texting while driving. I see no demands to take the phones.

Point is, it's not saving kids lives that's the issue, it's another battle in the Left-Right war and guns/kids just happens to be the latest skirmish line.

There have been approximately 20 mass-random school shootings (not the ridiculous one a week figure quoted) since Univ Texas in 1966, but I think more than half have been in the recent past so clearly there's something going on.

Weapons like the ones used have been around in general circulation for 75 years or more but it's only fairly recently that unstable individuals have decided to use them on schools. That's where the focus should be.

It's not saving kids lives because if it was, you'd be calling to ban all cell phones. You won't do that because you want your phone, you don't text and drive so why should you give up your phone? Sound familiar?

One last thing, I would recommend a book on Columbine by a guy named Dave Cullen. Scariest book I think I've ever read.

The two Columbine killers were suicides. One desperately wanted to end it, the other was a psychopath bent on widespread destruction and then suicide. So yes, you are correct. They wanted to 'hurt' the world as much as they perceived it hurt them.

The question is; has the percentage of school age teens experiencing suicidal/homicidal depression increased the past decades or has it remained consistent?

If it's remained consistent, what's causing this suicidal/homicidal depression to manifest itself in school shootings?

If the percentage has increased over the past decades, what's causing that?

As WM says: “ Point is, it's not saving kids lives that's the issue, it's another battle in the Left-Right war and guns/kids just happens to be the latest skirmish line.”

It is SO  Clear, that in the, ’school shooting’, skirmish, ‘Ban Guns’, is the Issue.
And why, ban guns ?
 What has happened to countries that Have, banned guns ?
                   History tells us what.  
History also tells, that,  Banning Guns, Must be done, slowly.
(It was found out, to fast, didn’t work)
 The recent ones, are just like a fog in a pan of cold water, while the heat is slowly turned up.
Could be, another reason, to, ‘Ban History’.
              People will, Forget.

The far left, (and some Democrats), are  HIDING, behind,
’…Save/Protect the Kids…’ statements.
It tugs on the heart strings.  Just like advertisers show horrible photos of something, which if you, ‘only’, gave them $19.95 a month, it would all go away.

If, the far left, (and some Democrats), Truly,
have the welfare of the school children at heart.
their would be working as hard, on Teen;  ’Texting’, ‘Suicides’,
  (just to name two things that KILL, Teens  WAY  More than guns)

So the ’Snowflakes’, that are so ‘Gullible’ as to believe,
           Putting up a ’sign’, will fix things.
Are doing, Exactly,
 what the people who are pulling their strings,
    and telling them what to say.

Being left and right, is the way of this country.
And the Ultra Left and the Ultra Right, have just been ignored in the past.
YET, Start of 2017, the Ultra Left, helped by 80% of the Media,
Is getting more and more coverage.
  (Is it money for the Media in form of revenues,
          or is it they do what their are told,
                         or  BOTH ?)

It's pointless to argue with them.
Facts are not important.
They are never wrong.
Regardless of how OBVIOUSLY Wrong they are.

I wonder if teaching Judeo Christian values, and holding people up to a higher moral standard, would help curb this.

 I think the problem is that the argument of:

"Police cant resolve the issue then Civilians cant either"

 holds so many variables that the question itself can never be answered as it is posed.