Despite the grant’s intention to “reduce gun violence and other serious violence,” Elijah Ikner—a product of the very programs meant to intervene—ended up taking innocent lives. [More]
“Commonsense gun safety” efforts kill.
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Jane Goodall found evidence that our violent nature probably dates back at least to our last common ancestor with Chimpanzees and Bonobos (CHLCA). So violence has been in our DNA for a very,very long time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gombe_Chimpanzee_War
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee%E2%80%93human_last_common_ancestor
The Mauser C96 “Broomhandle” was probably the first widely available rapid firing, high capacity magazine equipped, firearm. Mauser and others made well over a million of them The clue to its venerable age is in its model number. It was introduced in 1896, well over a hundred years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mauser_C96
So the most often blamed ingredients for incidents like what recently happened at FSU have been around for over a hundred years, yet these events first began occurring much more recently. Something in our society began producing maladjusted young men like Eric Harris, Dylan Klebold, Adam Lanza, and Elijah Ikner, and the occasional equally disturbed young woman like Audrey Hale, around the 1980s. Rather that continuing to blame violence in general, and certain types of firearms in particular, for these events, it would be better for us to determine exactly what our society started doing around the time that these disturbed young people started showing up and acting out.
AND STOP DOING IT!
Like many Floridians, FSU runs very strong in my family. I’ve spent a bit of time on that campus and am familiar with the student union.
So to cut the “Debbie Downer” vibe, can we sneak in some very traditional “pick me up” from a very untraditional source?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YCAbNqBNrM
When talking about “mental health” we must not forget that the father of modern psychology Sigmund Freud was a cabalist, who made his living covering for pedophiles, by brainwashing their victims who came to him for what they thought was treatment for their trauma.
Now, today, add in mind altering substances, which some call “pharmaceutical medicine”, on top of over a century of brainwashing development and what do you have? A society that doesn’t know anything about anything.