Mass Killings

In America guns owned per household used to be a lot higher. Meaning, almost every home had a gun in it. Now that number is around 40%.

These days, overall gun violence has been on a downward trend since the late 90s. But we have this phenomenon of boys, super young men usually, walking into schools and suicidally firing on everybody. The corporate-government media narrative, adopted by what I would describe as neo-liberals, is that we have guns that are too lethal for civilians and that we should restrict the bad guns and that this will reduce this phenomenon. The AR-15 and other semi-automatic rifles with certain features are generally the target for ban proposals.

I believe this intentional agenda, pushed by the ruling class, diverts the focus of a frightened citizenry from the problems in our culture that might actually be producing this nihilism. This is a list of things I think we aren't paying enough attention to and I think tons of study and essays could be written about each one:

Fatherless homes - nearly every mass shooter grew up without a dad.

Psych / antidepressant drugs - also a huge correlation

Epidemic of Social Isolation - You never see packs of kids playing in neighborhoods anymore like you did when I grew up. We were never home unless it was dark and we learned how connected we were to each other that way.

No Approved Channels of Masculine Release - Boys need to play hard and play rough. There are studies done with male rats that are deprived of rough house type play that illustrate this mammalian biological truth. As a male, I know this intuitively.

Near Total Loss of Institutions That Develop Citizenship in Young Men - Churches have emptied, Boy Scouts have withered, neo-liberal culture demonizes the masculine constantly and pushes myths that are designed to make boys and men feel bad for being how they are.

Nowhere to Serve - One of the deepest parts of the masculine heart is driven to service. This kicks in in earnest in puberty. Not that long ago the field laborers in America were all teenagers. That's why we have a Summer Vacation to help with the harvest. Imagine the value you feel when you know you aren't a kid anymore, but you aren't quite an adult but you want to be, and you have seething amounts of energy, and all the adults give you money for being outside all day picking the entire society's food. I cant imagine anything better for a pubescent kid to do. Maybe we should allow employers to hire 13 year olds in certain industries and abolish a minimum wage for them. There could be a 4 hour limit per day and only privately owned small businesses of a certain size could hire them. Agriculture and relatively safe trades like painting, light construction, food service, etcetera. Get an army of our kids back in the orchards, it would make is so much stronger and healthier.

Media Loves Mass Shootings - Every time this happens the media makes the shooter famous. That is a great way to keep it happening and it's great for ratings.

Porn Addiction - Is there a connection between indulging in the hedonism of porn and the developent of sociopathy and violence? With the average American kid finding porn at 11 years old, I bet there is. Also I'd like to know how many of these young killers had never once laid down with a woman.

School System Obedience Engineering- These almost exclusively happen at schools so it seems some reflection of school culture seems appropriate. This is a system that is meant to engineer obedience at the expense of creative individualism and entrepreneurial exploration. I can see how a young man in a fragile mental state can feel utterly invisible in the obedience factory that is many of our government schools. 

There is no God - If I was the devil, I would definitely push the idea that man created God and not the other way around. This secularism is intensely dangerous and beats hearts into a submitted gray nihilism and existential crisis. What role does the loss of belief in something higher play in these incidents?

Screens upon screens - I can't believe that countless hours of shooting realistic inages of people in first person shooter games doesn't start to rewire the brain, especially when the video games are encountered at such young ages. I also don't think it's a coincidence that an AR-15 is a favorite gun to feature in first person shooter games and also mass shootings.

Our boys need more help and more ways to contribute and be seen. Just some food for thought. This is going to keep happening and not because guns exist.