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Is anyone else simply numb to mass shootings?
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:13 pm
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:13 pm
I was busy yesterday, and did not have time to check the internet or the news until late last night when future Mrs. Boosie told me about the shooting in Texas. Strangely enough, I just felt blah about it. I'm finding myself more and more desensitized to it. 50 in Vegas, 25 or so here, it just doesn't resonate like it used to.
I've long said mass shootings are going to be the flip side of the coin of the Second Amendment, but I feel somewhat callous in arguing and accepting that. I do remember after Vegas an article by the liberal hack Charles Pierce of Esquire that these mass shootings are simply our blood offerings on the altar of the Second Amendment and it received like a thousand downvotes, but aren't we in a position that we've tacitly, if not openly, accepted that we simply are not willing to come up with a political solution to this problem?
I've long said mass shootings are going to be the flip side of the coin of the Second Amendment, but I feel somewhat callous in arguing and accepting that. I do remember after Vegas an article by the liberal hack Charles Pierce of Esquire that these mass shootings are simply our blood offerings on the altar of the Second Amendment and it received like a thousand downvotes, but aren't we in a position that we've tacitly, if not openly, accepted that we simply are not willing to come up with a political solution to this problem?
This post was edited on 11/6/17 at 12:14 pm
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Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:15 pm to boosiebadazz
no. hearing the 14 year old daughter of the pastor and the 2 year old baby were killed
that's difficult to stomach
that's difficult to stomach
This post was edited on 11/6/17 at 12:16 pm
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:16 pm to boosiebadazz
quote:
aren't we in a position that we've tacitly, if not openly, accepted that we simply are not willing to come up with a political solution to this problem
No.
What are your solutions?
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:16 pm to boosiebadazz
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if not openly, accepted that we simply are not willing to come up with a political solution to this problem?
Guns have nothing to do with a person that will kill 18 month old and 5 year old children. You can't policy that type of thing away.
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:16 pm to boosiebadazz
It would be less complicated if we didn't have a codified right to firearm ownership but we do. It's easy to just say "ban stuff that hurts people and if you don't want to ban it, then you have blood on your hands". It's an extremely complex subject but the mental illness aspect seems to be the tie that binds.
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:17 pm to MrLarson
Sure you can. Just outlaw killing.
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:18 pm to upgrayedd
quote:Indeed.
the mental illness aspect seems to be the tie that binds.
Michael McKean ? @MJMcKean
Replying to @SpeakerRyan
They were in church. They had the prayers shot right out of them. Maybe try something else.
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:18 pm to DisplacedBuckeye
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What are your solutions?
Gun control is the only option I’ve seen put forward. But that’s not happening so might as well get used to it
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:19 pm to boosiebadazz
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Is anyone else simply numb to mass shootings?
i have been since Columbine
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:19 pm to DelU249
Every death is these things is tragic and will have reverberations throughout those communities. We can say in a clinical, respectful sense that it is tragic, but I seriously doubt it brought you to tears or significantly impacted your day yesterday (not just picking on you, but using you as a representative of all of us not directly impacted).
We've had 26 1st graders murdered, 50 people killed at a concert, and now 25 people murdered in their church and those are just the ones that stand out, yet there is no political traction or movement to address the problem. Gun control and mental health are buzz phrases that rile up both sides, but nothing is ever done. I believe the last legislative attempt was after Newtown, and it failed, and there's been nothing since (and likely won't be anything in the future).
At what point do we stop with the pretend "thoughts and prayers" and just coldly accept that this is a reality of life in America? I think we're getting close to that point.
We've had 26 1st graders murdered, 50 people killed at a concert, and now 25 people murdered in their church and those are just the ones that stand out, yet there is no political traction or movement to address the problem. Gun control and mental health are buzz phrases that rile up both sides, but nothing is ever done. I believe the last legislative attempt was after Newtown, and it failed, and there's been nothing since (and likely won't be anything in the future).
At what point do we stop with the pretend "thoughts and prayers" and just coldly accept that this is a reality of life in America? I think we're getting close to that point.
This post was edited on 11/6/17 at 12:20 pm
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:20 pm to crewdepoo
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Gun control is the only option I’ve seen put forward. But that’s not happening so might as well get used to it
Correct, because that's the only solution they want. They don't appear to care about actually reducing these incidents. They want gun control.
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:21 pm to boosiebadazz
quote:
At what point do we stop with the pretend "thoughts and prayers" and just coldly accept that this is a reality of life in America? I think we're getting close to that point.
Do you have any ideas or are you just venting?
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:22 pm to boosiebadazz
Not just mass shootings, but tragedies in general
We are bombarded with horrific news constantly, you have to become numb to it or it would drive you mad
We are bombarded with horrific news constantly, you have to become numb to it or it would drive you mad
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:24 pm to upgrayedd
quote:
Do you have any ideas or are you just venting?
Ideas of whether we've reached that point or ideas about reducing these mass shootings?
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:24 pm to boosiebadazz
quote:of course not, but it did give me a momentary feeling of queasiness because at first i thought there were no deaths and then i saw there were 27 and that some of them were kids
but I seriously doubt it brought you to tears or significantly impacted your day yesterday
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:24 pm to boosiebadazz
gun control was a reasonable solution ~100s of years ago
now, its so deeply embedded in our culture that any " political solution" would be just a waste of time and effort
now, its so deeply embedded in our culture that any " political solution" would be just a waste of time and effort
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:24 pm to boosiebadazz
Never. It's always shocking to me.
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:25 pm to boosiebadazz
It's sad but I look at it from a eastern spirituality point of view. Humans are a damaged species and along with the explosion in the world population you have seen an increase in the number of unstable people out there. The human race is pretty much insane in what we take to be reality, truth etc. Our values are selfish, wasteful and fricked up beyond belief. Ego run amok. Everyone out for number one and me and mine. Expect more of the same short of a massive spiritual/social revolution.
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:26 pm to boosiebadazz
honestly i get really pissed because we put the shooter's picture, name, grievances, thoughts and feelings on television non stop for millions to see and hear
i think if you showed the shooter with a big fricking hole in his head and paid more attention to the victims we would have waaay fewer of these shootings. There's zero doubt in my mind.
i think if you showed the shooter with a big fricking hole in his head and paid more attention to the victims we would have waaay fewer of these shootings. There's zero doubt in my mind.
Posted on 11/6/17 at 12:26 pm to boosiebadazz
quote:
At what point do we stop with the pretend "thoughts and prayers" and just coldly accept that this is a reality of life in America? I think we're getting close to that point.
It isn't just life in America. It is life on this planet. There have been shitty people since the beginning of people and there will be shitty people until people cease to inhabit this place.
It is just a hard fact.
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