My opinion is there will always be those with a dark heart and no matter what you do you will never stop them.
Additionally, as with other concerns of a society - the politics of it seems to distract more than actually address the overall issues.
I mean - it's the year 2019 and despite having politicians and lawmakers working around the clock in our behalf.....the problem still exists.
Why?
You’re essentially asking, why are people screwed up, and how do we fix it. If that isn’t the gist of your question, then I apologize.
You’ve asked questions like this before, and I’ve attempted to be thoughtful in my response, and the conversation usually ends with a “thanks!” or a “hmm I hadn’t thought about that.” I’ll try again, knowing I’m probably wasting my time but I’ve got some free time.
Besides removing access to tools that make it incredibly easy to inflict mass damage and harm on people with very little training, the only options that remain are all societal in nature.
Most people do these acts out of a misplaced sense of being wronged.
This group has made me feel less than them due to <insert whatever reason worms into their brain>. Whether it is a feeling of lost future opportunity with the opposite sex, or the feeling of not owning the things they think they should own, or the feeling of not having the respect deserved, it is almost always a result of some feeling of powerless to remedy their current situation with traditional methods.
Lonely because no women will talk to you? It’s easier to blame them as all being stuck up <insert derogatory term> and that they deserve to be punished. Instead of taking some time for self reflection and realizing you’re a jerk and not very nice to women.
Upset because you lost your job at the coal plant? Blame a tree hugger and liberals in general and find some way to punish them. Instead of realizing that the same subsidies that used to prop up coal are now being funneled to the natural gas industry and coal is not as cheap.
Upset because the sweet gravy train you had by being a white dude isn’t as easy as it used to be for your dad or granddad? Blame an uppity brown person or group of brown people because if they weren’t coming into your country everything would go back to the way it was. Nevermind the fact that globalization is effectively making humans the least efficient way of performing work, and even if you kept all the browns out, your life still wouldn’t be as good as your parents without putting in vastly more work.
So given all the scenarios above, I can imagine you realize I don’t have a very high opinion of the reasoning behind most of these types of situations. Right now in society, we have a tendency to look for black and white solutions to increasingly gray problems. Politicians are elected by dumbing down problems so they become binary in nature. Society increasingly values people on what they own and are willing to complain about or provide praise for, over the substance of ones thoughts.
Until people realize that Instagram, movies, and TV are not depictions of reality, our perception of our own status in the world will continue to get skewed and our place within that society will continue to appear as if the majority of people are losing ground, when it seems that everyone we see is gaining it. This comes down to a lack of community that is continuing to shrink as the ever connected world allows people to form ever smaller insular communities of like minded people, thereby making all problems seem as simple as black and white. “If they don’t agree, just shoot em!”
Please don’t nterpret the above as me saying “Its that darn media! Both sides! AMIRITE?” That isn’t what I was getting at, at all.
Given everything I’ve said, what are your thoughts on solving the problem of crazy people wanting to kill other people by using firearms? Without considering the limitation of firearms obviously. Because I mean, a gun is just a tool, right? If he didn’t have access to guns, it is obvious that he would have still killed all those people.
Here are some alternative headlines:
49 dead in terrorist mass scissoring at Christchurch mosque.
Man uses hammer to kill 49 people in 5 minutes at mosque.