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| The Real Reason Why Mass Shooters Kill |
| 2022-06-04 |
| Thanks to TW and Besoeker. [AmericanThinker] Tucker Carlson almost said it. He went right up to the edge and then drew back. He wheeled the cannon on stage, but he did not fire it. Carlson almost blurted out the most taboo truth in Washington, the unutterable heresy that the political class suppresses more ruthlessly than any other. He asked us to consider — after eliminating all the standard leftist cliches and a few rightist ones — why do these young shooters keep committing mass murder? What characteristic do they all share? What is going on here, and why can we not even discuss it? It seemed almost as if he was inviting someone to say what he could not. So I will oblige him. The shooters, the mass murderers, even most of the terrorists, and essentially all violent criminals (plus many drug addicts and a majority of the homeless) share this one quality: they are all fatherless. And no, fatherlessness is not intractable. These destructive and self-destructive adolescents are not victims of impersonal forces that defy remedy — still less of "irresponsible" fathers who "abandon" them, as the political class invariably reports without evidence. These falsehoods provide the politicians with excuses to throw up their hands in despair or devise useless, self-serving programs that actually make the problem worse. The shooters are the products of government policies that intentionally remove children from their fathers and proliferate single-mother homes. They are the offspring of the two hatcheries that breed fatherless children: the welfare state and the divorce industry. The social science is unequivocal. Virtually every major social pathology can be laid at the door of fatherless homes and communities — not race, not poverty. Single parent homes. That means crime, truancy, addiction, and more single parents. Decade after decade, the problem only worsens until we are left with not only social chaos, but, increasingly, political chaos, too, and even tyranny. It is easily demonstrable that the BLM riots in 2020 that prepared the way for the leftist takeover of the U.S. government were perpetrated by dysfunctional, violent, and fatherless adolescents. The problem will certainly not be ameliorated by feel-good palliatives like those implemented by the Clinton and Bush administrations and recently once again enacted in Florida. These programs claim to confront fatherlessness but in reality funnel more money to the welfare apparatchiks and divorce operators so they can create more fatherless children, on which their business depends. So diabolical is the political class in both political parties that it devises measures to exacerbate the problem in the very process of pretending to address it. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #14 I would be interested to know how many of these young murders have been on behavior meds and for how many years. |
| Posted by: Airandee 2022-06-04 22:29 |
| #13 #7 CESARE, Thanks for added view points. Agreed the FBI nor any general shooter profile is ever 100%. Its the human element that adds to the equation. But the failure to act by others is a major contributing factor for any shooters success. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-06-04 20:16 |
| #12 Once, a girl at a bar asked me and a friend to help her get into her car after she locked the keys in it. We got a coat hanger, made a slim jim and went to it. Some drunk asshole came out and pushed us aside, said "I'll get this." My friend and I shrugged and left him to it. 10 minutes later, the girl came in and said "I need you guys. He couldn't get in my car. Oh, and, get another coat hanger." Such is the relationship between doers and officiators. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-06-04 14:47 |
| #11 the ones that arrive later There's a reason they're late. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2022-06-04 14:43 |
| #10 I don't think this second group are as concerned with their own safety so much as fear of making it worse. Not the way Red Adair worked. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-06-04 13:35 |
| #9 Rup Good point when you consider the media storm over the girl killed by a stray police bullet during a shootout with a criminal To me Columbine was the most infuriating with swat teams doing their centipede dancing a 100 yards from the school while shots could be heard inside the school I know the media would hang the police if there were hostages killed in the crossfire but the police have to understand the media is their enemy and no brave deed goes unpunished |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2022-06-04 12:50 |
| #8 Sock Puppet of Doom, I would guess there are two reasons (1) The best and brightest don't seek duty at the schools so the ones onsite lean towards cowards or lazy (2) the ones that arrive later are terrified to the point of paralysis of killing children in the crossfire or being blamed for instigating carnage. I don't think this second group are as concerned with their own safety so much as fear of making it worse, so they plan to talk them down if possible. |
| Posted by: ruprecht 2022-06-04 11:43 |
| #7 #3 NN, I have enjoyed your posts and the perspective you bring to this site, but this is utter nonsense. Perhaps applicable in another manifestly past time but not now. The swine from Parkland wasn't any ambiguous psychological puzzle to solve, rather he spent years...YEARS telling everybody he ever met and people he already knew his primary ambition was to be a school shooter. Thus after people saw and heard something they said something in accordance with the great dictum. To what end? Absolutely nothing. They couldn't keep tabs on him since that would be spying. AS IF the alphabet agencies couldn't tell you every and any detail about your life with about 20 minutes notice. How about that charmer from Virginia Tech. A troubled lad, oh yes very troubled. Let's see now based on his troubled behavior, people changed majors, changed dorms, moved off campus, and left the school altogether. For the big deal of the day when confronted with the loss of tenure if she would not have him in her class, the nice English teacher basically said cram your tenure. Quite the record for somebody who NEVER said an audible word his entire time there. Again, people sure saw something and everybody not only said something they did so repeatedly, and the result was what again? If only he had used the wrong pronoun, then they would have had him sure. This is a concept of community policing that arises out of compassion as much as concern is sadly from 'Bedford Falls'. There has to be somebody on the other end of the line who will take substantive action. All the studies and white papers in the world won't do what 5 minutes of common sense could have accomplished in virtually every instance. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2022-06-04 10:52 |
| #6 #4^ M. Murcek I agree, too many walk around with a Smartphone in their Social Media realm, not noticing their surroundings world. Based on my HRT and profile of hostile threat training. My own observations, likely 85+ out of a 100 would not notice any displayed threatening issues. Those that did notice would not take the time. Instead, worry about lawsuits and Social Media turning on them using ___ phobia smearings, for report an "IT's" hostile mental illness signs. What is usually left are those that would whip out a cell phone camera to be the "on the scene" chronicler for their Facebook bud's. Instead, providing basic 1st aid or help. This latest election year, school shooter displayed how many of the warning signs and how many reported "IT"? How many of the give or take, 100 present at the scene acted to stop "IT" instead of watch it? I believe it was just 1 in 100+ that acted, while usual mass majority of others stood around. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-06-04 10:19 |
| #5 This may get me sent to Rantburg pergatory but in the four largest shootings at schools: Columbine, Parkland, Sandy Point, and now Uvalde the police mobilized and stood outside for long periods of time. I don’t understand |
| Posted by: Sock Puppet of Doom 2022-06-04 09:32 |
| #4 ^ Most people aren't even watching where they are going let alone practicing situational awareness. |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-06-04 08:11 |
| #3 How about using the FBI’s Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU) published "Key Considerations of the Active Shooter" as a starting point? There is no one demographic profile of an active shooter. Many active shooters display observable pre-attack behaviors, which, if recognized, can lead to the disruption of the planned attack. The pathway to targeted violence typically involves an unresolved real or perceived grievance and an ideation of a violent resolution that eventually moves from thought to research, planning, and preparation. A thorough threat assessment typically necessitates a holistic review of an individual of concern, including historical, clinical, and contextual factors. Human bystanders generally represent the greatest opportunity for the detection and recognition of an active shooter prior to his or her attack. Concerning active shooters, a person who makes a threat is rarely the same as the person who poses a threat. Successful threat management of a person of concern often involves long-term care taking and coordination between law enforcement, mental health care, and social services. Exclusionary interventions (e.g., expulsion, termination) do not necessarily represent the end of threat-management efforts. While not every active shooter can be identified and thwarted prior to attacking, many potential active shooters who appear to be on a trajectory toward violence can be stopped. |
| Posted by: NN2N1 2022-06-04 07:57 |
| #2 The experiment of multi-generational fatherless families in the inner city never gave the 'experts' a heads up. They just construct a rationalized Ptolemaic social universe to get around reality. As long as they avoid the truth, there will be no 'solution'. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2022-06-04 07:56 |
| #1 This was obvious in the late 60's and early 70's. The government replacing fathers/religion would cause massive problems in society. |
| Posted by: The Walking Unvaxed 2022-06-04 02:27 |