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Topic: Guns don´t kill people but our sons do; let´s focus on them |
Guns don´t kill people but our sons do; let´s focus on them
Clarion-Ledger [Jackson, MS], by Warren Farrell
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Posted By:BonnieBlue, 1/8/2013 4:30:05 PM
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| After Newtown, Conn., parents cried out, “What’s making our children kill?” But it is not our children who are killing. It is our sons. All but one of the 62 mass killings in the past 30 years was committed by boys or men. We respond by blaming guns, our inattentiveness to mental health, violence in the media or video games, or family values. All are players, but our daughters find the same guns in the same homes, are about as likely to be mentally ill, have the same family values and are exposed to the same violence in the media. Our daughters, however, do not kill. Why the difference?
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Comments: It´s not the gun. It´s who´s pulling the trigger.
Please post source correctly and article to word limit as shown. LCom Staff.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
noproblems, 1/8/2013 4:36:46 PM (No. 9105667)
how many of these people were on medication?
how many of these kids did not have a father in their lives?
how many of these kids watched hours of violence and played hours of violent games?
just asking
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Hairy Eyeball, 1/8/2013 4:41:55 PM (No. 9105670)
How many of these ´kids´ never met their father, or if they did they were one of the kids spread among 11 ´baby mamas´.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
yuban, 1/8/2013 4:42:18 PM (No. 9105671)
Women´s choice of weapon is water, so it seems.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Thos Weatherby, 1/8/2013 4:43:34 PM (No. 9105674)
Mr. Farrell may be correct with his assertion, but is wrong if he thinks this White House would really want to solve a problem. Democrats don´t want to solve problems. This wouldn´t give them anything to run on.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Blue-Z-Anna, 1/8/2013 4:44:51 PM (No. 9105676)
Why does the Army and Marine Corps recruit young men ?
Because they make good killers.
Girls take too long to get ready.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
bamapreacher, 1/8/2013 4:51:14 PM (No. 9105689)
#2 has a point about the 11 mamas, and yet it seems to be all white boys who commit the mass murders, not black or hispanic. That should also be looked into. The black boys without fathers seem to have perhaps more of a propensity for one on one violence but not mass shootings.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
rlwo, 1/8/2013 5:09:48 PM (No. 9105723)
Drive-by shootings have also been mass murders, not always but enough to not say only white boys are mass murders.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
NYbob, 1/8/2013 5:17:47 PM (No. 9105740)
#6, beltway sniper and the other sniper mentioned in an article the other day because it was an anniversary of his killing spree. Black shooters, random white victims. Take out the inner city black gun criminals and the US moves up quite a bit in the violence rankings. The other statistical factor is the number of white vs black in the population. Don´t expect a word on this problem in all the new proposals to ban and confiscate firearms, starting tomorrow in NY state.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
Bobn.T, 1/8/2013 5:20:02 PM (No. 9105744)
How many were raised in families where they were not allowed to play with toy guns, as boys do, but were given baby dolls and dresses instead?
It´s our sick society that´s spawning the shootings.
Why did we not have this cultural violence in the fifties & sixties? Looks at what´s changed. There´s the answer.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
FLCracker, 1/8/2013 5:26:35 PM (No. 9105755)
Okay. Got it.
Only women should be allowed to own guns.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
LadyHen, 1/8/2013 5:27:48 PM (No. 9105757)
Might I suggest the intentional emasculation of white males in this country and the feminist drive to disenfranchise men from their rightful place as leaders of house and home in favor of female dominated households (even in stable 2 parent homes) might, just might be contributing to this trend?
Weak, beta, blue pill dad dominated by overbearing asexual Oprah worshiping mom is the new trend in all parts of white society, even the church going part. Look into red pill/blue pill reality in the current manosphere blogroll. Strong dominant fathers and husbands are good for kids and wives. It is also Biblical for those who ascribe to Christianity, despite what the churches may teach mostly by example.
The way things are isn´t the way they should be if we really do love our kids as much as we say we do.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
markinalpine, 1/8/2013 5:29:03 PM (No. 9105760)
The dumbocrap solution to this might just be castration at birth for all those male children not born to the "approved for reproduction" elite. Guess who they´ll be.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Bettysez, 1/8/2013 5:48:12 PM (No. 9105791)
There have always been serial killers and Americans have always had guns but mass shootings are relatively recent. In almost every case, if not EVERY case, the shooter has been in mental care treatment and given drugs that clearly state they may cause suicidal thoughts and other violence. It´s the drugs, not the guns. Guns have always been available. Boys vs girls -- I don´t know--but a lot has to do with our culture making fathers (males) disposable. What else do they have to do? Golf, anyone!
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Coy860, 1/8/2013 5:54:35 PM (No. 9105802)
10 & 11 have it right. Not allowed to play dodge ball, Cops and Robbers..turned into little wimps by age 12. No rough and tumble for them to get it out of their systems. Easy bake ovens in non gender color..(whatever that means)
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
BaseballFan, 1/8/2013 6:05:22 PM (No. 9105812)
Information released yesterday in courtroom testimony was that police removed several bottles of prescription pills belonging to the shooter at the Aurora, Colorado theater.
Don´t look for LeftMedia to mention it, though.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
4Justice, 1/8/2013 6:18:07 PM (No. 9105823)
#10, LOL!
Actually, serial killers were really not heard of much until the late 19th Century. I think there are a LOT of different factors behind this, but one thing that folks forget about is the rat experiment. We are getting more crowded in smaller spaces like the rats who started killing and eating each other. This is only one small contributing factor, but definitely a contributor. Lack of God and a moral compass; lack of stable 2 parent nuclear families; mass media glorifying the perverse, violent and evil; etc. etc. etc.
BTW, our daughters are killing too. Just not at as high a rate but they are a growing number.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
J F Ackerman, 1/8/2013 6:22:29 PM (No. 9105830)
Generations of little boys are now medicated with powerful drugs (e.g. Ritalin) for the crime of being a little boy... many have no father-figure to guide them and their mother-figures are incapable of dealing with them... drug ´em and hang the dangers and consequences. Just sayin´.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Poliskeptic, 1/8/2013 6:40:57 PM (No. 9105869)
Hmmm...it´s men who protect us, too.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
antiquegolf, 1/8/2013 7:17:48 PM (No. 9105917)
Poster 6, major hassan and the VA Tech nut also rather refute your point about white boys doing all the mass killings.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
veritas, 1/8/2013 7:58:18 PM (No. 9105947)
The flawed assumption in all the "we have to do..." responses is that society can actually find some something that will stop crazies from being crazies.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
rabbit, 1/8/2013 8:08:46 PM (No. 9105959)
Stupid article. In all cultures, in all time periods, males have been more prone to violence. The Mongol hordes were male. The Crusaders were male. The French Revolution? - males. Can´t blame video games - they didn´t exist for centuries. Can´t blame psychiatric medications - they weren´t around for centuries, either. Kids without fathers? I bet there were a lot of fatherless children following the Civil War and every other war in history.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Chuzzles, 1/8/2013 9:45:59 PM (No. 9106082)
Well one possible explanation could be the fact that the wussies who populate our school system can´t handle the totally normal behaviour of little boys. So what do they do? They drug them into little robots. When the press decides to get honest about their reporting, I think that the teachers unions in this country will have a lot to answer for in regards to the monsters they have created.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Bevan, 1/9/2013 8:25:12 AM (No. 9106569)
Uh, women have killed over 50 million since Roe V Wade.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
woodsman, 1/9/2013 8:33:31 AM (No. 9106582)
Aurora, Columbine, Newtown etc - All of these killers were on anti-depressant medication. Studies indicate that medications - particularly anti-depressants work very differently on males versus females. I´d start there - the gun issue is a red herring rolled into an agenda to grab absolute power - nothing else.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10964861
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
LaVallette, 1/10/2013 7:28:56 AM (No. 9108430)
"Our daughters, however, do not kill" using guns. They prefer abortion instead: Over 330 thousand last year, at Planned Parenthood alone. How many millions since Roe and Wade? .
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