Being nice to a kid is not going to change anything when that person is already so far mentally gone that they’re contemplating homicide (ideation or intentions), the average Jane/Joe DOES NOT have the proper tools to handle them. They need professional intervention, IMMEDIATLY
Jesus wept, so this article gets huffy at the insinuation that there’s a huge social problem -or problems – driving these shootings, because they claim the issue is really about “access to high powered rifles”.
Yet none of these shootings have been committed with high powered rifles.
None.
The article claims its “victim blaming” to acknowledge that it’s the ostracized, bullied kids who keep perpetrating these shootings. The article ignores that someone has to do the ostracizing. The article takes issue with pointing out that it’s usually their peer groups that do it. They then try to compare it to “telling a rape victim that their attacker wouldn’t have attacked them if they’d had a girlfriend”, holy shit.
I want someone to explain to me why anti-gunners are suddenly so adamant about defending being an absolute dickskin to the weird kid in class.
It’s not “victim blaming” to point out the trend of these shootings, it’s reality. People who become victims are just as much a part of society as anyone else. Being a victim doesn’t magically remove all ability to be criticized, unless you’ve got the mentality of a six year old. Someone has to do the bullying. Someone has to turn a blind eye.
“It’s duh GUNZ”, and yet less than a percent of a percent of all gun owners have ever committed a mass shooting – if its about access, there should be more. If you objectively look at the numbers and compare them to just how many legal gun owners there are in this country, people who go their whole lives without shooting anyone despite having guns, thats the honest conclusion you must come to.
Anyway, fuck anyone who tries to claim being kind to the weird kid doesn’t help because he’s “too far gone”.
Because what’s the slogan these yahoos keep saying? “If it saves just one life, it’s worth it?”
Wow yeah this is fatalistic, you never know if you’ve stopped something like a shooting from happening by walking up to someone and being friendly because it’s impossible to know that it’s happened.
Yes walk up and talk to the weird kid, befriend them, at a minimum step in when other people are picking on them so they know that not everyone is horrid.
You kindness could save lives and it’s not that hard to say hi to someone.
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