Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri...
by bitxbitxbitcoin on Thursday May 26, 2022 @08:53AM
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The school shooting club thing is also an example of how education works.
Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri...
by Spooky23 on Thursday May 26, 2022 @10:26AM
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Not in a way relevant to this. We aren’t stopping spear violence by having javelin as a track event.
Guns are just tools. I have a few shotguns and rifles for skeet and hunting. No different than golf clubs.
What is different is the context. Check out an “American Rifleman” magazine from 1969 and compare to today.
Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri...
by nradov on Thursday May 26, 2022 @11:37AM
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A few decades ago it was actually somewhat common for students at rural high schools to bring guns from home so that they could go hunting after school. That didn't seem to cause any problems.
Most recent mass shooters have acted for personal reasons. They were not insurgents fighting the government.
Just as you don’t see soldiers on military bases walking around with guns on their hips for fun, there were strict rules around high school shooting ranges - kids didn’t take guns home and had strict protocols around handling, etc.
The big difference now is you have a fetishization of guns combined with a low intensity insurgency. If you ask a more prolific gun person about why they are collecting weapons, the answer in 1965 was likely to be about antique or other technical factors. In 1995 they were worried about Clinton taking the guns away, so buy before it’s too late. In 2015, many are talking about fighting the government.
Marginal personalities are attracted to the power of weapons and attention.