re: Why mass shootings are so polarizing

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But instead, half the people don’t want anything to be done because they “don’t think” it will do anything.

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And you’re conveniently in that half that wants something done even though you have no fricking clue what that might be

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How can we know the answer to this when we haven’t even tried any of the proposed solutions?

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What solutions do you propose we try?

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But instead, half the people don’t want anything to be done because they “don’t think” it will do anything.

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Half the people don’t want anything to be done because they have learned that giving even an inch results in the other side trying to take a mile.

Let us say that the right does decide to concede ground on gun control.

If it doesn’t work, will the left give back what they took away?

Of course not. The next step would be demands for the right to give up even more ground.

The overarching issue is that every single legal gun owner knows that the ultimate goal is gun confiscation and bans.

That isn’t arguable.

And based on previous situations where giving an inch has resulted in a mile, the right is no longer willing to concede any ground.

That is the universe we live in.

No one on the right believes any of the progressives (mmmmbeer, The Spleen, OweO, etc.) when they say that confiscation isn’t the goal.

Why should they?

The University of Texas sniper is the oldest one I remember reading about in the 60s. But schools weren't really a common target until the past 15-20 years it seems. A few in the late 90s but Columbine was the first one I remember getting massive media coverage.

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But schools weren't really a common target until the past 15-20 years it seems.

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Hmm, I wonder why?

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Columbine was the first one I remember getting massive media coverage.

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The University of Texas sniper is the oldest one I remember reading about in the 60s. But schools weren't really a common target until the past 15-20 years it seems. A few in the late 90s but Columbine was the first one I remember getting massive media coverage.

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And I ultimately think that media coverage is what drives them at this point. Mass shooting are an easy, nearly foolproof way for someone who feels ignored to go out “big”. If we had some modern day version of damnatio memoriae, I doubt we would see nearly as many.

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And I ultimately think that media coverage is what drives them at this point.

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Yup

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It's a best an oversimplification.

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Only if your construe my post to be something it isn’t intended to be. My post was responding directly to OP to answer the question of “why mass shootings are so polarizing”. Anything beyond that is just building strawmen.

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Gonna take a wild guess and say you’re a white heterosexual Christian Republican male.

Are you open minded enough to accept there are people that don’t meet your normal? To accept that your unwillingness to understand and accept others outside of that normal makes you a part of the problem?

The problem isn’t the loss of the nuclear family. It’s not the loss of God. It’s the utter absence of understanding of one another, particularly those outside our own paradigms of normal.

I don’t condone or dismiss this shooter’s action. It’s incomprehensible. I hope he suffered and suffered slowly.

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It's crazy to think that people could hold a belief this ridiculous. You are saying that everyone else is the problem, because they just want to live their life and not go out of their way to understand the psychopath. People like you are why this will never stop. Because you refuse to hold the individual responsible for their actions and always look to blame others.