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GP There's a part of the human psyche that longs for simple solutions, like "pass a law" or "confiscate all guns." Then there's the cruel reality that mass shootings aren't caused by one so-called root cause.
GP There is truth that the wide availability of guns in America gives our evil/mentally ill citizens access to an instrument that makes killing many people quickly easier than in nearly any other stable country on earth.
GP But dealing only with the firearms issue (which right to keep and bear is constitutionally protected and difficult to restrict) doesn't solve the problem of what causes people to feel committing a mass shooting is the answer.
GP The answer's also in part economic. An entire generation of blue and white collar workers (Millennials) has not come of age without hope of getting out from under student loan debt or finding good, stable, decently paying long term jobs.
GP The answer's also in part technology. Social media's rewiring our brains and our relationships. It makes it far easier for psychos with apocalyptic fantasies to find each other, commiserate, and cement bad neural feedback loops.
GP The answer's in part the effect of decades of liberal social welfare programs that have destroyed families in lower income households across the racial spectrum.
GP The answer in part is the Left's targeted destruction of conservative (in the sense of conserving ideals and traditions) institutions such as religion, civic groups, and charities.
GP The answer's in part education, both non-education in poor communities and mis/re-education in colleges.
GP Poor kids graduate high school functionally illiterate, historically, mathematically, and literally.
GP College kids graduate with worthless degrees, in many cases knowing less about actual facts and the world than when they entered thanks to the long march of hard-core leftists through the faculty lounges.
GP All of this is to say, sure, guns are part of the problem in that they're one of many explanations for why mass shootings seem to be (I am not convinced by the statistics) more prevalent today than in the past.
GP But there's a whole lot of other causal factors that are equally if not more responsible for the rise in mass shootings and no one wants to talk about those because they're not susceptible of a simple answer. So it's easier for politicians to blame guns.
GP The things about which people complain today, mass shootings, alienation of the young, lack of adult behaviors, men not willing to date/marry, increase in kids returning home, etc., they're all effects, not causes.
GP You're not going to solve mass shootings or any of the other problems I've named above (and those I haven't) without addressing what's really going on.
GP There's a complex series of events all occurring contemporaneously for the first (?) time in this country. It's resulted in a generation largely alienated from the country, its people, and its founding principles.
GP And until you solve the economic and social problems, the mass shootings will continue, no matter how many restrictions on guns you may pass (all the while knowing full well they're mostly unconstitutional).
GP I guess that's all I have to say about that for now.
