No-One's Life Matters. That's Why
There Are Mass Shootings
PJ Media,
by
David P. Goldman [Spengler]
Original Article
Posted By: Hazymac,
8/8/2019 3:17:42 PM
Writing in the left-wing Forward website today, Cathy Young warns the Left to take its own violence seriously:
..."It has been a staple of conventional wisdom that the real danger comes almost entirely from the far right....But is that still true today? (Snip) Good for Ms. Young, who declines to join the chorus blaming President Trump for the last two atrocities. Never mind that the five worst mass shooting incidents took place outside the United States, or that more mass shootings occurred during the Obama presidency than under Trump. But that leaves us with the question: Why are there mass shootings?
Reply 1 - Posted by:
IowaDad 8/8/2019 4:00:20 PM (No. 146647)
Mass suicide/murders are almost always perpetrated by individuals with long histories of scattered, haphazard lives littered with interpersonal ructions, and often with repeated acts that are destructive, if not criminal.
About 1% of all individuals have well defined sociopathy (antisocial personality disorder). These people include many of the known mass shooters. Sociopaths cannot be cured by any known intervention. Psychiatrists are not fond of accepting them as patients. No commander of a well-regulated militia would accept them as soldiers.
No sociopath should ever be allowed anywhere near a weapon.
10 people like this.
Reply 2 - Posted by:
HPmatt 8/8/2019 4:03:16 PM (No. 146649)
The lives of my friends and family matter, that's why we are pleasant, but armed. You really don't need to live in fear of 'where's a cop', when with a steady arm, good situational awareness, and grace of G-d, a Walther PPQ can 'deliver us from evil'. Sad that US is on the secular path, without hope other than an August holiday, that we plainly see in 'Old Europe' - with the magnificent churches...and few faithful people inside, and like all of the Leaders of Western Europe - childless.
10 people like this.
Reply 3 - Posted by:
MrDeplorable 8/8/2019 4:16:09 PM (No. 146657)
#2 said it all. It's all about sociopathy (current name anti-social personality). Nothing is going to change until criminology, sociology and politics recognize that 4-5% of people are sociopaths for whom there is no possibility of rehabilitation or change and once they are identified, which can be done very early, they need to be removed from society for the rest of their lives. Sociopaths don't need prison but they do need isolation.
4 people like this.
Reply 4 - Posted by:
Newtsche 8/8/2019 4:27:34 PM (No. 146662)
So many of our left are led by the Godless European left, as if that association carries some sort of cachet.
What last century seemed to teach Europe is not only doesn't life matter, tens of millions of lives is just a number. A continent of warped minds continues searching for a reason to be, continues failing to see what made it matter. We're not Europe and need to find our own way, wholesale death is not an option. Is it?
8 people like this.
Reply 5 - Posted by:
DVC 8/8/2019 4:46:29 PM (No. 146673)
One of the best commentaries that Spengler has done, of many good commentaries.
FTA:
"Mass shootings are a special form of suicide. The shooter never expects to survive. But the shooter combines self-hatred with group hatred. Hate becomes so melded with the shooter's identity that he determines to take as many people as he can with him. They are of the same order as the pilot who crashed a Germanwings airliner into the Alps in 2015.
He is right. The left is creating, or has created, a literally failed culture. When a rich woman like Rosanne Arquette (admittedly, of no real accomplishment, and nor real intellectual capacity, it seems) is ashamed of her ethnicity, then the left has destroyed her, mentally destroyed her. How long before she decides that suicide is the best way?
The left are truly, deeply evil. And if you need any proof that Satan is still puling levers and pushing buttons, observe them. They are destroyers.
13 people like this.
Reply 6 - Posted by:
pilot222 8/8/2019 4:59:43 PM (No. 146689)
The hate rhetoric from the Left is causing these sociopaths to become more violent. The democratic party has such a lust for power, communist type power, they are willing to unleash and encourage the entire sociopath community to create this instability. Every elected demorat is responsible for these shooting
6 people like this.
Morally ill....
NOT mentally ill.
Morals..Ethics...Values
The left wing is the way to moral bankruptcy.
And THEY control education and media!
And entertainment in movies and on TV!
So what do you expect?
8 people like this.
Reply 8 - Posted by:
kono 8/8/2019 7:41:32 PM (No. 146809)
As much more thoughtful than other analyses of mass shootings as this is in places, its soft-focus characterization of the culture's past pretends everybody had a Judeo-Christian outlook until recently (never mind evidence throughout history of conflict over the existence and nature of God). And the author seems to treat all mass shootings as being essentially the same in cause, defying his other point about how radically unique every one of us is. Are there really none in which the shooter tried to survive? And I'm curious to know how he adjusted the mass-shooting statistics between Obama's presidency and Trump's, when they aren't the same number of years -- did he calculate per-annum or pick some arbitrary 3-year stretch of Obama's to compare to Trumps 3 years so far?
It's heartening to see somebody in a normally Left-leaning publication dare to contradict the lock-step narrative of the Left on these topics. It still leaves plenty of room for improvement, though.
0 people like this.
Reply 9 - Posted by:
Janylou 8/8/2019 7:42:41 PM (No. 146810)
No God, no peace. Know God, know peace.
4 people like this.
Reply 10 - Posted by:
Trigger2 8/9/2019 3:20:03 AM (No. 146913)
Why? Because public schools K-12 and colleges/universities are steeped in Communist teachings. The end justifies the means.
2 people like this.
Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "Hazymac"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)