02-23-2018, 09:07 PM
just_john Wrote:I reflect back into the early and mid 1960's when I was in high school. During dove season, there was hardly a car or pick-up in the parking lot that did not have a shotgun in it. Pick-ups had 'em in the back window. The idea of bringing one into the school to do harm was totally unthinkable. I knew a guy who carried a 10" butcher knife ( on him ) because he didn't have a car and worked in a meat market in the afternoons and this was his "pet" knife. We all knew it. The teachers knew it. And we all went about our lives. If there was a beef between some folks, it was either settled across the street or the coach settled it with the "board of education".
So what has changed in the last 50 years? There are only two variables, the who or the what! Guns may look a little different but they still work the same. That just leaves the people. So how people changed? Well, the media makes heroes of the bad guys. Video games make heroes of the bad guys. The criminal justice system seems to look the other way, mostly because they get persecuted / prosecuted for doing their jobs properly. And kids are taught to take on no sense of responsibility if something horrible is done, either by fact or intent.
And now they scream for justice when their own gets out of hand. I hear a lot of talk and speeches about changing or restricting the tools but very little about restricting the sources of persuasion that says this kind of thing is OK. If they want to change things, let their economics disuade the video game creators to stop making "Grand Theft Auto", stop the media from publicizing the 15 seconds of glory for some idiot who walks into a school building with evil intent.
Well said. The outrage never seems to be directed at the source of the problem. The miscreant who did the killing, the cowardly security guard, or the enablers and supporters of the failed leftist social experiment from the 60's.