Our heads were collectively filled with hows and whys, as our state and federal officials began piecing the deranged details together early Friday. It was welcoming to hear calls for an open forum towards feasible deterrents and common sense measures addressing this epidemic, but we've come to expect for reasons all too familiar by now that such prescriptions have become an unfortunate minefield among the polity if they don't include assaults on liberty through weapon bans that only affect the law-abiding.
Besides the hysterics of the First turned against the Second or the exhaustive and endless pro/con debates moderated among the punditry, there are some who would genuinely like to identify the causes of such an epidemic and tackle them head on. However, we must first overcome a large segment of society in denial of such ailments...
RedState: Talking to Fox News host Chris Wallace, North said the problem isn’t guns and the solution isn’t gun control:
“We’re trying like the dickens to treat the symptoms without treating the disease.”North is right about that.
The media humiliated itself over the past year, hysterically yelling about “assault rifles.” All the while, there was no such thing. Television’s talking heads were illustrating their ignorance of rifles, choosing to respond emotionally to spooky-shaped plastic firearms as if they possessed a quality of murder which others did not. ...
But could the media be even more wrong? Could the problem not be guns at all?
North thinks so:
“The disease in this case isn’t the Second Amendment. The disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence.”
But what about something else other than moral decay? Many of the shooters share something else:
“They’ve been drugged in many cases. Nearly all of these perpetrators are male. … Many of these young boys have been on Ritalin since they were in kindergarten.”Ritalin, quite simply, is speed. Pure speed. The very thing people would tell their children to never do, in some cases, they’re forcing them to do. From a very early age. There have yet to be enough studies over enough time to scientifically determine what speed — not to mention SSRI’s, a constant among mass shooters — does to the brains of human beings raised on it.
It isn’t a preposterous notion that giving children chemicals that affect their brain or function might, over time, result in behavioral changes. That, after all, is the entire purpose of the drugs. ...
Here’s psychiatrist Peter Breggin on the drugs which have infiltrated the bodies and minds of young Americans. If you have further interest in the subject, enjoy more of his thoughts courtesy of the worldwide web:
Another element should also be explored alongside the cultural and medical, and that's the moral (and dare I mention this in a spiritual light, because the darkness isn't working, folks)...
TheResurgent: We need to be teaching our children how to handle disappointment.
We need to be instilling grace, humility, caring, and a reverent fear of God in our kids.
To be fair, I don’t know the family background of the Santa Fe shooter, yet. I don’t know how he was raised, and the truth is, sometimes parents can do everything exactly right, but their child still strays.
That being said, it is too easy for the world to get settled into the spirit of impressionable youth, and lead them in the exact wrong direction.
Something got to this young man.
What we’re hearing now is that when he opened fire in an art class, killing 9 other students and 1 teacher, he had targets in mind.
In particular, he sought out those he “didn’t like.”
One mother is saying the 17-year old assassin targeted her daughter, Shana Fisher, because she had repeatedly turned down his advances.
Rejection and disappointment crested somewhere between mind alteration and cultural rot fomenting into a swift, violent reaction of immature, irresponsible youth...yet far too many continue to focus on a tool while ignoring the mind behind it. We must move beyond this endlessly insane cycle if we ever seek to reduce (or God willing, end) this carnage.
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