I can't understand how this has come to happen again. I know people say it's a gun issue, and there is a element of truth in that, there is a gun culture with the under 30 crowd in the USA , you can see how they post pictures on the net holding,banishing, showing off their guns. The more crap they load on the AR platform the more proud they are.
I learned as kid a gun was a tool. If you needed to use it , it was taken down off a wall rack or out of a glass case and used, then cleaned, the put back away.
Everything I have now at 51, to my first 4.10 at 10 years old to my modern sporting rifle is treated the same way.
So it can't be the gun, we had em, we didn't do this, there was a former marine in California who shot up a McDonalds while I was I was on Pendleton in Cali, in the 80's and of course Whitman in Austin, and I had heard there was a lady who attempted to shoot up a school in the 70's in California. California. What a Country.......That covers almost 30 years.
How many in the last 10 years?
So what has changed? Social media is a vile place where people talk to each other and call each other names that they would never do in person.
Not only for fear of fighting either, we as humans mostly don't want to see hurt on other peoples faces. Most people you deal with are decent people other wise the world would be unlivable. The things that people say to one another on news comment boards are shocking.
Bulling now goes on 24 hours a day with these kids, we used to get it a school then go hang with our friends and everything was ok unless you ran into your bully at the park. Now it never stops because they attack them all of social sites they use. It just never stops.
2nd part for me and my wife is they can't fight their bully's either. You either become friends or he moves on to easier prey.
The closing of the mental faciltys in the 80's. Every one of these except for Vegas showed plenty of red flags they all would have been involuntary committed in the 70's Doubt it?
Watch 3 episodes of the tv show Barney Miller. People were sent to Bellevue hospital all the time.
The notoriety of it. The Egyptians used to really erase someone from their history, maybe we should do the same. Make that part of the punishment.
And I sure there is more that I do not know.
I am sorry for the loss of life and what these people have to deal with now. God forbid it could have been my family.
I do know this. If we don't figure it out, we as gun owners will have serious restriction put on us, the votes will be there, people are getting tired of it as they should be. Something has to give.
I'll get off my soapbox now. but first, it's not about breaking into my house. He@% I'll leave the door open for you. Just be aware, I'm gonna lock it after you.
Chuck
