It Ain't the Guns, Folks.

                                                              

It just might be time to break a very long silence, and to point something out: there is a very specific reason there are so many mass shootings in the United States, and it isn’t at all what is being talked about, and blamed for it.

Many are quick to point out that the infamous Columbine incident was not the first mass shooting in the U.S. While that is true, it was the turning point. After Columbine, the problem blossomed like an insidious, thriving thorn patch into what we have today, a titanic consumption of innocents at the hands of an extreme few. Why might that be?

When Columbine happened, I remember agonizing to my wife that blaring an occurrence like that one around the world was downright socially irresponsible. Of course it was news. Of course, we have freedom of speech, and an obligation to cover the news. Oh, sure.

We also have an opportunity to exercise some common sense, and there was far, far worse than none of that, exhibited by anyone at all in the national news media. How is it even remotely possible, that no one but little insignificant me thought that shouting and screaming about it would surely result in copycat repetitions of that horrendous event?

Folks, it’s the politically-charged media, the national news media, that bears full responsibility for the mass shootings that have occurred since Columbine. Sure, there may have been a few anyway. But not in schools, friends.

Lets consider what the perpetrators are. Not who, but what. They are suicidal. Suicides happen every day, all over the world. But some are more than suicidal, they are also very sick, and very angry, and they very much desire attention. What they do is how they get it. The very idea of preying on innocents is the thing that the media has spread, without thought or any sense of responsibility or remorse.

So what we should do, you see, is to remove all of the guns.

It’s nothing but politics.

End of story.

If you want to solve this problem, you don’t have to quash free speech or the media, but large venues should, in fact, be broken up and sold off to people who will abandon political agendas in reporting. ALL political agendas. Do that, and you will see the return of discourse, and reason, and a collapse of the hatred and hard-line bullshit with which deeply divided Americans are fed, every hour of every single day.

Of course, that won’t happen. There are powerful, manipulative people behind all of it. A divided populace is easier to control.

I could never really understand, either, why abortion was ever at issue. The same manipulative jackasses that I hold responsible for the above, are stupid enough to believe that government can and should legislate morality. Could anything be less attainable?

I rest my case. When the conflict has forced peace-loving, freedom-loving citizens into battle lines, that won’t bring about peace, either. There are persons at the top who bear responsibility for this mess. Find those people, ferret them out, and take away their power.

That’s your answer.