‘The Virginia Shooter as Grievance Collector
The rush to find societal scapegoats after mass shootings.
The Right will have two conversations about the Virginia shooter. The first will be a high-minded lament of the presence of evil in modern life, the appalling inability of mental-health facilities to find and treat those who are dangers to themselves and others, and the silliness of the Left’s reflexive cry for gun control.
The second will feature a certain number of folks on the Right who will see the shooter’s horrific actions as a completely natural and predictable consequence of race-baiting politicians and media.”
Blah blah blah continues from a NATIONAL REVIEW article
written in 2015!
As the recent shooting at the TV station in Virginia illustrations, looking for social or political “root causes” for violence that stems from mental illness is seriously misguided.
www.nationalreview.com
What is quite fascinating actually is the very basic concept ~ the more things change, the more they stay the same ! The chest thumping about the perils of firearms, ad nauseam; to the hand-wring 2A advocates who whine but don’t contribute a thing to the debate! The cycle just continues.
We discuss nuances or what ifs or ...
Sorry, if, big IF, we know disgruntled individuals seek revenge, violent - self harm or to others, injurious etc., then why hasn’t society, [read religious orgs] demanded changes to the root causes of what is precipitation of the disgruntlement?
I mean IF society can punish an 80+|- comedian for what was accepted activity 30 years ago, why not demand the work place bullys, both employees & employers be held accountable for the shooting(s)?
[oh ya let’s not forget the parkland fiasco with everyone from the educational system for mishandling the student, to school employees who failed to report the shooter on campus or the surveillance video had a 20 delay, to the on site chicken deputy sheriff RSO, to the complete break down of the MH system TRUELY should get a percentage of the blame - yes cruz ultimately pulled the trigger but is he the root cause of the shooting?]
Remember, we investigate work place accidents to preclude them from recurring, ya and the tired, well used, cliche ~ they weren’t trained properly! ~ isn’t a viable root cause! Yet, don’t on these incidents!