“Guns Have Existed in America For 200 Years and people have purchased AR-15’s for 60 years, but School shootings are new. The REAL issue is this…
Mother Jones recently published a study about the 96 mass shootings that have occurred since 1982. Their report shows that there have been 796 total people killed in mass & school shootings since 1982. They also show that only 25 of the 96 mass shootings since 1982, involved a semi-automatic rifle, or as the media likes to incorrectly call it, an “assault rifle.” In April of 2014, there was an attack that occurred at Franklin Regional High School in Murrysville — a typically peaceful community about 18 miles east of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. A student named Alex Hribal used a long knife to stab 22 of his fellow students, even though this attack was only three years ago, it is long forgotten by everyone except for those affected by that attack. Following this bloody day, no one called for the ban on knives, and no one dared discuss the true culprit behind these attacks, which is what we’ll get into here.
Many though, would like to know, why? Why is it that no one ever talks about the weapon of the attacker’s choosing in any mass attacks unless that weapon was a gun? Why is it that no one blames alcohol or calls for more liquor regulations when a drunk driver plows through a group of kids on their way home from school? Surely people know that the amount of innocent people killed every year by drunk drivers is about the same amount of people killed in intentional murders by guns right?
360,000 people have been killed by guns since 1982. 324,000 of the 360,000 killed were shot by an illegally obtained firearm. This should show you a little bit about how defective our already strict gun laws are. Relevant to this, every day 28 people in the United States die in alcohol related motor vehicle crashes. This is one death every 51 minutes. The annual cost of alcohol-related crashes totals more than $44 billion.
When we tried to ban alcohol during the prohibition, violent organized crime surfaced. When we try to ban narcotics such as cocaine, marijuana, heroin and others, more demand, black markets and violent crime surfaces. Why do we think this would be any different with guns?
The media at every turn is either blaming the gun or even “white masculinity” like in this article, but Mother Jones, a left leaning outlet even states that though whites make up the majority of mass shooters, they are still not over-represented relative to population in mass shootings.
Furthermore, according to FBI statistics, in 187,000 of the 360,000 who have been intentionally shot and killed by guns since 1982, the perpetrator was black. And in 90,000 of the 360,000 the perpetrator was Hispanic. So again, I’m not sure where the conclusion of “white masculinity” comes from. More importantly, almost all of these shootings that have happened in America were caused with illegally obtained firearms. Whether that be on the black market, in back alleys of gang infested urban areas, or by smash and grabs at gun stores. All of the studies available to us show that almost all of the gun crime here in America is caused by illegally purchased weapons. So why do we think more laws will stop this? Is the possession of drugs stopped by laws?
But aside from the racial aspect of everyday shootings like in Chicago or Baltimore, mass shootings like in Florida or Vegas, let’s get into the real reason behind mass shootings. Its not guns. Its fatherlessness. Fatherlessness and a country that has the most children on psychotropic drugs per capita in the world. The glorification of violence in Hollywood, the exponential rise in broken homes, the growing rate at which our children are being prescribed with psychiatric drugs and the fact that we closed around 80% of the mental institutions in the 1980’s makes for a deadly combination. A combination that is unique to America.
Susan LM Goldberg, an author for PJ Media, wrote in an article that “no one in the mainstream media or government wants to acknowledge” the key issue: fatherlessness. Goldberg. cited Warren Farrell, author of “The Boy Crisis,” who notes that “minimal or no father involvement is common to Nikolas Cruz, Adam Lanza, Elliott Rodger, Dylann Roof and Stephen Paddock.” Farrell says Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz’s “fatherlessness was compounded by the death of his adoptive mom.” Numerous factors are cited for a rise in mass shootings, “but boys with significant father involvement are not doing these shootings. Without dads as role models, boys’ testosterone is not well channeled” and they “become among the world’s most destructive forces.”
By Vincent James
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