Said RFK Jr. on "Fox & Friends" yesterday, when he was asked about whether "drugs" used in transgender treatment might have had a effect on the Minneapolis shooter. RFK Jr.'s answer broadened the topic to "SSRI drugs and other psychiatric drugs," some of which come with warnings about homicidal and suicidal ideation.
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"This kind of violence is very recent. It's a new thing in human history. There was no time in the past when people would walk into a church or a classroom and start shooting people."
"It is not happening in other countries. It's happening here and we need to look at all of the potential culprits that might be contributing to that."
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९२ टिप्पण्या:
Of course, his premise is wrong since many countries have experienced church and school shootings.
Yeah, well, back in the day we had the Crusades and the Moors invading Spain and then becoming career pirates in North Africa. And as I noted yesterday, we had tribal scalping, and head shrinkers, and cannibals, human sacrifices, and all sorts of stone age inter-tribal cruelty and massacres.
If you are thinking any of this is new, read this creepy report:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/312197037_Ritulised_Destruction_in_the_Early_Neolithic_-_The_Exceptional_Site_of_Herxheim_Palatinate_Germany_FPA_81_Speyer_2016
School shootings are an extremely complex issue that gets reduced to absurd simplistic solutions for political purposes. Dems are pushing bans on high capacity semi-auto rifles, but that won’t prevent shit because a disturbed person can do as much damage with pistols - see Virginia Tech shooting. A complete gun ban isn’t going to happen because of the second amendment, and wouldn’t work anyway because it is impossible to remove all the legal guns in this country short of turning the US into a military dictatorship - going door to door and searching for every weapon.
Republicans have a more reasoned view, the problem is sick individuals who are willing to carry out mass killings. This problem has no easy solutions so Republicans are branded as do nothings or ignoring the issue. Even if you were able to remove all guns from the US, there are other ways to carry out mass killings that a sick fuck could resort to - see Bath School disaster.
"This kind of violence is very recent ... "
Copilot AI tells us,
"Early Incidents ...
The first modern-era mass shooting at a house of worship occurred in 1980 at First Baptist Church in Daingerfield, Texas, where five people were killed during Sunday services.
School shootings date back even further. The Bath School disaster in Michigan (1927) involved explosives, not firearms, but remains the deadliest school massacre in U.S. history."
In 1927, the Bath Consolidated School in Bath Township, Maine was destroyed by Andrew Kehoe. He was a local farmer and was the treasurer of the school board. He rigged the school with dynamite and blew it up, killing 38 students. He was mad because school taxes were eating up all his money.
School killings have always been going on. As long as there have been schools. This happens because schools are run by the government and the government doesn't give a fuck if your kid gets killed at its unguarded facilities.
That's one reason why you should be home-schooling your kid.
Also, the teachers are raping the kids. You read about this daily. No real parent worth their salt puts their kids in a school to be raped and murdered.
Do you do that?
Mom?
Well, do you???
The media has suppressed how many shooters were on psychiatric drugs or sex hormones. Big Pharma pays their TV salaries, and most print people want to be on TV, because that's where the money is.
I haven't read if the killer had had "bottom surgery." Imagine the anger in a young man who has eunuched himself, and no one told him to stop, not even his parents. What an affirmation!
"many countries have experienced church and school shootings."
Germany, Scotland, Finland, Austria, Serbia, Sweden, the Czech Republic. Just to name a few.
"Imagine the anger in a young man who has eunuched himself, and no one told him to stop, not even his parents."
Now imagine the anger in a young man who's mother was egging him on the entire time and supplying the female hormones because she's a Democrat attention whore.
That's some real anger.
Homosexuals and bisexuals are relatively stable classes in the transgender spectrum. Celebrating simulants in a liberal culture that follows progressive principles that entertain abortive ideation to relieve "burdens" is a toxic combination and first-order forcing of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change.
His mom wanted a girl as his authentic selfie. The irreconcilable demand of changing his immutable sex and simulate empathetic gender (e.g. sexual orientation) caused a mental break and psychotic episode with affirmative action in a mass abortion event. In most places, most times, these events are prosecuted with a scalpel, machete, or other bladed instrument, which offer affordable, available, sustainable "burden" relief.
Bob B nails it from the start.
The CDC director knows who runs the executive branch. She's not fired till all 700 US district court judges agree.
I recall a time when "going postal" was a thing. Postal employees going nuts and shooting fellow employees. In CT there was a nutcase who shot up the lottery office where he worked, and another who killed 14 co-workers at a liquor distributorship where he worked. I don't think this phenomenon is new.
I wonder what stopped the postal employees thing. Might be worth exploring.
Here's the history. https://allthatsinteresting.com/going-postal
Nothing concrete about why they seemed to have stopped, other than the Postal Service having a designated person tasked with prevention.
We need common sense trans control. They are mentally ill, which is obvious to anyone with common sense, and should not be allowed to purchase firearms.
Bath School massacre was in Michigan, not Maine.
More history. David Berkowitz was a postal worker. This article blames the phenomenon on Ronald Reagan (?!). https://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2023/04/the-dark-and-gruesome-origins-of-going-postal/#google_vignette
I don't think postal employees can complain that they are working too hard these days.
In addition to the Bath School tragedy almost 100 years ago, we have the New Zealand nihilist that went on a rampage a few years ago. There are nutters in all times, all countries.
RFK JR. is right about the need to get a handle on SSRI's and other psych drugs and their effects on young people. Also cannabis' effect on the young should be more comprehensively studied (although I seriously doubt that the US government will accomplish anything positive in this area).
Here is how the NYT is reporting the killer today:
Investigators pored over writings and videos made by the woman who killed two children and injured more than a dozen people at a Minneapolis Catholic school, trying to make sense of her tangled litany of online grievances and violent obsessions. Here’s the latest.
In videos, the woman fixated on guns, violence and school shooters. She displayed weapons scrawled with antisemitic and racist language and threats against Trump. She died of a self-inflicted gun wound at the scene Wednesday.
RFK Jr. keeps being floated as if he’s some kind of “truth-teller,” but look at what he’s actually doing here. He takes a real problem—uniquely American mass shootings—and instead of dealing with what sets the U.S. apart (gun access, culture, social factors), he pivots to antidepressants and transgender medication. That’s not serious analysis, that’s distraction.
And honestly, this is what happens when someone is propped up not for competence or vision but for loyalty to Trump and his movement. You get somebody who sounds like a “truth seeker” but is really just following the Sharpie, drawing attention anywhere but the obvious.
Until we come to terms with the fact that RFK Jr. is out of his depth, we’ll stay stuck in the same loop, pretending the problem is something exotic instead of facing what’s right in front of us.
"I am not sure who the Secretary is listening to, but it is quite certainly not to us at the CDC. Unvetted and conflicted outside organizations seem to be the sources HHS use over the gold standard science of CDC and other reputable sources. It could cost lives."
"[Trump and RFK Jr's] desire to please a political base will result in death and disability of vulnerable children and adults, Their base should be the people they serve, NOT a political voting bloc."
—-Dr. Daskalakis
Then there's the technique of herding everyone into a church and burning it. Seems to have been going on as long as there have been churches. RR, JSM
I have a vague memory of Obama saying after a mass shooting stateside that these things didn't happen overseas. It was shortly after a mass killing in France, and there was some murmuring about it from Europeans. Norway, Russia, New Zealand, Switzerland. Things like this happen around the world. They do seem more like isolated instances, while here they are (or are presented as being) something more than that.
But I guess RFK Jr. grew up hearing "only in America" a lot in reference to gun violence.
RJW, what's your solution, exactly?
And what are the cultural and social factors that you're talking about?
Dr. Daskalaki,the weird DEI bondage guy. Yeah, why am I going to believe him?
I’ve already pointed out the starting point: stop treating RFK Jr. as if he’s offering serious solutions. When the conversation gets diverted to SSRIs or transgender meds instead of the obvious drivers of gun violence, we’re not even at the table of honest problem-solving.
From there, the cultural and social factors aren’t mysterious. Other countries have mental illness, antidepressants, violent media, and angry young men — but they don’t have this level of mass shootings. What’s different here is the culture of easy gun access, the political refusal to confront it, and the way figures like Trump and RFK Jr. redirect the discussion to keep their base engaged instead of facing reality. That’s the dogma-and-pony show.
Television, the internet, and the 24 hour news cycle are also recent. 19th century school shootings usually involved students with specific grievances against a teacher -- or less often, a classmate. Stabbings with knives or hitting with stones also happened, maybe more often. There was never a sense that the whole world was watching or that killing many teachers and pupils was a way to fame. There was the occasional boy who pretended to be Jesse James and fired a few shots in the air, but he would only achieve local fame -- if even that.
Pot talking about kettle:
Ronald J. Ward said...
RFK Jr. keeps being floated as if he’s some kind of “truth-teller,”
Trans-insanity is 100% Democrat Party celebrated and created.
The democratic party is a rage machine. The Democratic party is a violent marching rioting rage-filled brownshirt machine.
RJW, so your solution is just get rid of guns and/or the "gun culture"?
It was all hip and cool to disparage Fox news - but it really is one of the few honest big news sources.
NBC, CBS and ABC affiliates are all Democratic Party liars.
Ah, the old “ban guns or nothing” trap — a binary frame to dodge the nuance I’ve been pointing at.
I never said “just get rid of guns.” I said if we’re serious, we need to stop letting people like RFK Jr. distract us with SSRIs or transgender medicine. Other countries have mental illness, antidepressants, and violent media — but not this level of mass shootings. What sets us apart is our uniquely American gun culture and the easy access that comes with it. Pretending otherwise just keeps us chasing our tails.
Now I’m off to Golden Corral with the grandkids. Feel free to keep responding to arguments I never made.
Violence and mass killings are not new, Junior. Reread your history books. Churches and schools were not spared.
The Obama administration was effective in controlling the media narrative, but Islamic terrorists started going after Christians and churches in Africa back then. While there was talk about rescuing "kidnapped schoolgirls," the Christian boys were flat out murdered. Christan girls made for good brides or sex slaves, but not the boys.
Similarly, the Paris to Dakar car race was moved to Chile in 2009 because of credible threats of terrorism.
Rogue loners didn't do the killing, but it doesn't matter when the loners are given marching orders by a Party. It doesn't matter when elected officials (e.g., Chuck, Nancy, and Biden's handlers) won't condemn violence.
The Talliesen Massacre, when FLW’s lover and six others were killed with an axe, happened in Wisconsin in 1914.
Apparently school attacks are big in China with people charging groups of kids with their cars. The solution has been lots of bollards around schools. The desire to lash out against the innocent appears to be a human trait. Who knows why it is triggered.
Let me get this straight, 288 school shootings and 2 involving transgender people. Hmmmm Is that a reason to stop gender affirming care? Maybe real thinking people will say no. Nit RFK rj. Never met a conspiracy theory he didn't like. What a pile of trash.
I'm sure SSRIs are involved, also pumping kids full of hormones. But another toxic influence may be the culture of victimhood that was already dominant in the schools when the Columbine killers acted. Victimhood became their bond and their identity. Kleibold kept a journal for two years imagining revenge against those whom he believed had disregarded him; Harris did the same for a year before the attack. That's a lot of premeditation and mutual reinforcement. It also explains how they have become role models for a variety of other school shooters, especially these recent trans ones, the victims of the moment. Ironically, if they had received real punishment for breaking into a car and stealing computers from it prior to the attack, their parents and officials may have learned of their plans, which they recorded in detail. Instead, they were put in "positive" diversion programs, praised for their progress, and returned to planning their massacre. They also somehow lacked parental supervision: they made scores of bombs in their garages, making enough noise to bother neighbors. The parents didn't notice?
Dogma and Pony Show said...
"RJW, what's your solution, exactly?
And what are the cultural and social factors that you're talking about?"
He's trying to make gun control sound like a reasonable solution.
We already have gun control. What we don't have is reasonable control of the mentally ill.
Victoria: your statistic conflates two types of school shootings. The vast majority of mass school shootings, defined as three or more victims, are gang-related fights on school property. That's really a different category of crime. Trans-identifying people are now more than a statistical blip among the type of school shooting discussed here.
Our youngest talks with me about this all the time. He's mid 30s and notes what a tremendous percentage of his male friends have been on drugs for decades. He likens it to the lobotomy treatments of days gone by. These have side effect warnings that should scare you to death. Toss in today's skyrocketing diagnoses or autism, depression and other ailments... routinely "handled" by the try this pill method of medical advice. Now add the numbers of young men routinely smoking today's super pot. Now add, for the Trans community, major league hormone manipulation...
What could go wrong?
Wrong question. What could NOT go wrong.
My new shout-it-from-the-rooftops topic is the types/number/and duration of this deluge on young minds. I would like an analysis of the drugs used by mass murderers (or planned mass murderers) with the above drugs highlighted. One suspects it would be eye opening.
But Orange Man/RFKjr BAD, asking questions about trans BAD. Questioning over prescription of mind altering drugs BAD...
@Tina Trent: "Trans-identifying people are now more than a statistical blip among the type of school shooting discussed here."
They are going to need to start tracking whether the shooter wrote a manifesto. This includes the Unabomber and two trans shooters.
Only revolutionaries pushing an ideology require manifestos.
Kettle, this is pot, come in kettle:
I said if we’re serious, we need to stop letting people like RFK Jr. distract us
Widespread ADHD meds, widespread psych meds, and now widespread availability of super-potent marijuana - I promise that the effect of these drugs in combination has never been studied.
Tina Trent,Trans-identifying people are now more than a statistical blip among the type of school shooting discussed here." Says who? Do you have actual data? or just RFK jr bull.
school attacks are big in China with people charging groups of kids with their cars
One-child equity and inclusion? There was a mass abortion event at a Chinese school some time back, where the guy wielded a knife to relieve his "burdens". Africans seem to prefer machetes. Westerners the scalpel.
He takes a real problem—uniquely American mass shootings—and instead of dealing with what sets the U.S. apart (gun access, culture, social factors), he pivots to antidepressants and transgender medication. That’s not serious analysis, that’s distraction.
Why do you focus on shooting? It makes no difference to the victim whether it was a bomb, a box truck or a gun. What matters is mass killing.
Sequestering deaths by gun is a distraction that is a sure sign of a gun grabber. After New Orleans, did you call for common sense truck control, or bemoan truck access?
When the conversation gets diverted to SSRIs or transgender meds instead of the obvious drivers of gun violence, we’re not even at the table of honest problem-solving.
.British Medical Journal: Antidepressants increase the risk of suicide, violence and homicide at all ages
I don't know why people think that declaring that there is more fun violence in the US than other, say, western nations is an unexpected statistic (there are several examples of this in these post comments). Of course we do. We have more total gun ownership and ownership per capita, looking at both legal and illegal categories as combined or separate. Someone committing a violent crime will use the tool they have handy. In the US, that will likely be a gun. In a lot of other countries, it will be some other object.
To really compare violence across countries given that the collected data is different due to different metrics being used despite similar verbiage (it is fairly hard to uniquely define violent crime, so many different standards are used), we need to normalize the numbers so we compare apples to apples. Looking at gun violence, specifically, I would, by first approximation, divide the per capita rate of gun violence with the per capita rate of gun ownership (whether overall or illegal gun ownership is depending on the problem being analyzed). This will give me a truer comparison on if there is an outlier in this statistic between the two population groups rather than using total numbers ( the larger population will almost always have more of every incidence), or rates workout correcting for endemic differences (such as gun control laws).
At that point you can dig in to things like cultural effects. My gut feel is that most nations are probably in the same ballpark, particularly if you compare culturally related ones. This is certainly something that a LLM can spit out, just make sure that you have it show you its work and its sources!
RJW: He takes a real problem—uniquely American mass shootings—and instead of dealing with what sets the U.S. apart (gun access, culture, social factors), he pivots to antidepressants and transgender medication. That’s not serious analysis, that’s distraction.
Why do you focus on shooting? It makes no difference to the victim whether it was a bomb, a box truck or a gun. What matters is mass killing.
Sequestering deaths by gun is a distraction that is a sure sign of a gun grabber. After New Orleans, did you call for common sense truck control, or bemoan truck access?
When the conversation gets diverted to SSRIs or transgender meds instead of the obvious drivers of gun violence, we’re not even at the table of honest problem-solving.
You sure about that?
British Medical Journal: Antidepressants increase the risk of suicide, violence and homicide at all ages.
I wonder how Westman had managed to amass such an arsenal in spite of MInnesota's strict gun control laws. I imagine the Minneapolis cops, the few that are left, are wondering, too. That may be why they want a chat with his Mom, who had lawyered up and left the state.
Can't blame the mum that much for skedaddling. Yes, she apparently enabled or even originated the trans stuff. But the entire culture and MN government told her that was meet and right so to do. Yes, I realize a few comments up I said this is no defense; all the more reason for her to keep shtum now that the spears are pointing inward at her. And had she been trying to fight the trans thing, she'd definitely have had all the spears pointed at her: Child Protective Services, the school system, maybe even some cobbled-up criminal prosecution for endangering the poor boy/girl. Even in the best criminal law system, the best advice is STFU. In the Banana Republic of MN, it's even better advice. RR, JSM
Victoria, it is currently impossible to separate statistics on different types of mass shootings in schools (the feds do collect data on where shootings occur, ie. on streets, in homes, at workplaces, in schools). But there's two types of statistical distortion for school shootings. One is that not every state or parts of some states provide the feds with statistics. Two is that we don't differentiate between what is basically street crime or gang crime versus the motivated, often premeditated massacres we commonly call school shootings. There are very few of these, not 288 (of course, one is too many). I think it's fair to call two a blip in that much smaller pool. I also think they may belong to the larger group of motivated school shooters taking some type of psychiatric drug and definitely to the youth who have absorbed the victimization narrative. If I find better stats, I will post them.
China has issues with school knifings. LOL Grammerly wants to change "knifings" to "shootings"!!! But I won't let it.
These events are usually committed by unmarried, middle aged men. The theory being that children represent a future the aggressor will never have.
The UK has taken away its subjects arms, but that hasn't prevented violent crime. Per AI Claude:
"The number of knife or sharp instrument offences recorded by the police *in London* rose to approximately 15,016 in 2023/24, compared with 12,786 in the previous year , marking the highest number of knife crime offences reported *in London* since 2019/20.
More broadly across England and Wales, knife-enabled crime has risen by 4% in the year ending March 2024, with police recording 50,510 offences.
This represents a significant 78% increase over the past decade."
The data shows that knife crime in the UK continues to rise, with a 7% increase in 2023. Additionally, the start of 2025 has seen fatal stabbings of young people making headlines across the country."
Predictably, there've been efforts at "knife control":
"The government has put in place measures to ensure that irrespective of whether you buy a knife on the high street or online, you will be subject to an age verification process.
The UK government recently announced 'Ronan's Law' to see toughest crackdown yet on knife sales online which focuses on limiting the accessibility of knives wherever possible, restricting their availability and the routes to purchase."
Probable Guardian headline: "Knife Control: Gourmet Chefs and Crazed Muzzies Hardest Hit"
I mean more than a statistical blip. Sorry. That they occurred after the trans hysteria took off does seem significant.
Tina Trent said...
Victoria: your statistic conflates two types of school shootings. The vast majority of mass school shootings, defined as three or more victims, are gang-related fights on school property. That's really a different category of crime. Trans-identifying people are now more than a statistical blip among the type of school shooting discussed here.
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Do you have stats to back up that "vast majority" assertion?
Please share them if you do, or tell us where you saw that information.
And do you have stats for the incidence of violent crimes of all kinds by "trans-identifying persons"? THAT too would be of great help.
Schools get targeted because they are always soft targets- the children are guaranteed to not be armed and so are the teachers pretty much everywhere in the U.S. and Europe. I am not a teacher but, if I were, I would definitely keep a gun with me at all times.
Churches used to also be soft targets but you see more and more often the congregation is the one putting the attackers down or driving them away.
I think researchers will find that compared the schools; church shootings are rising far faster than school shootings. And judging by the comments made by Democrat politicians after this latest shooting, it is not hard to see why.
Effinayright, I couldn't produce stats dividing out ideologically motivated school shooters from conflict/gang oriented school shooters (often shootings with people shooting at each other) because the stats are collected on the basis of number of people shot. Some ideological shooters have low body counts. Some conflict shooters have high ones. But if you follow crime news as I do, it's apparent that most school shootings aren't ideological. Also, let's factor in per capita ideological shootings, as trans people make up a very small percentage of the population. There have been several mass shootings by trans shooters in recent years, not all in schools. As I said, I think the combination of drugging kids, promoting trans as a victim population, and generally promoting a sense of victimization among youth and maybe even their parents are all factors to look at. Of course, when a shooter leaves a manifesto or diary or other written intentions, it's easier to categorize them. My take-away may not be satisfying to you, but there's limits to the research. I actually don't think we should publicize these materials because copycat phenomenon is real.
Regarding copycats: When people were free to choose between Catholicism, Catholicism, or Catholicism in Europe, stigmata and saintly miracles were routine.
Stigmata overwhelmingly affected Catholics, so nothing suspicious at all...
RFK Jr.'s grasp of history is a little shaky.
People have done diabolical things like this since the ancient Israelites dashed the Canaanite babies to pieces on the rocks. The single largest massacre of schoolchildren in American history was the dynamite bombing of Bath Elementary School in Michigan in 1927. 45 people were killed, including 38 children.
It's true that rampage shootings in schools are on the increase, but it's not due to firearms availability. Firearms capable of the atrocity seen this week have been on the market since the 1800's, and were much more freely available in bygone days before modern gun control laws. The main difference now is the baleful influence of television news and social media.
She would not be the first refustenik this year to find federal officers at her desk to escort her out of the building.
I am not a teacher but, if I were, I would definitely keep a gun with me at all times.
One of my elementary school teachers was a Marine who had fought at the invasion of Iwo Jima. He kept a riot shotgun locked in his Jeep and a .45 in his locked briefcase. The principal was also a WWII veteran and I suppose he gave permission for it. In fact, thinking back about the sort of fellow the principal was, I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn that he had a weapon in his office too.
But the entire culture and MN government told her that was meet and right so to do.
Hello, fellow Anglican.
its certainly more than one variable, but the increase in ssris certainly have some part in this matter, along with other intoxicants, but this has become a very profitable business model, that the outgoing cdc director wanted to continue,
Let me get this straight, 288 school shootings and 2 involving transgender people.
Provide a link to those numbers AND the definition of 'school shooting.'
There aren't very accurate lists, and Wikipedia is loose with numbers and a bit incoherent, only counting guns even when the offender stabs some victims too, but looking at the 19th to 21st centuries, a few patterns stand out. Females and Asians are vastly overrepresented compared with their standing in other crimes, and Asians tend to have higher kill ratios by quite a bit. There really are not that many mass casuality events, even recently, though they have grown more lethal in some cases.. They have increased, but they still are in the minority (and by the 60's, the researchers basically give up on recording non-ideological school violence: these numbers are useless). A surprising number of 19th century gun deaths occur when someone mistakes a theatrical prop gun for a loaded real one. As for today, I think we are just at the begining of a trend of copycat violent attacks by trans youth. This is not an indictment of them but a suggestion that they receive more counseling and scrutiny of the parents until the trans hysteria is muted.
Rusty said... “Dogma and Pony Show said... RJW, what's your solution, exactly? And what are the cultural and social factors that you're talking about?"
“ He's trying to make gun control sound like a reasonable solution. We already have gun control. What we don't have is reasonable control of the mentally ill.”
Before anyone hits the “RJW is dishonest” default button — I haven’t argued for gun control as the solution.
But you’ve hit a BINGO. If, as you correctly put it, “what we don’t have is reasonable control of the mentally ill,” then how does it help to defund and dismantle the very agencies that research and address mental illness — while firing top professionals and replacing them with political hacks and quacks? That’s not moving a solution forward, it’s moving it backward.
And THAT has been my entire argument all along.
@Ronald J. Ward: "while firing top professionals and replacing them with political hacks and quacks?"
Please now, don't be so hard on Slow Joe Biden. He was manipulated by those around him. It was elder abuse. Of course we will forever trust Biden's "top professionals" Nina Jankowicz and Sam Brinton and Kamala Harris and Anthony Fauci.
we know you are a bad liar, Ron, you should acknowledge it,
in the 90s, the UK and Australians in the 00s, were fooled into giving up their guns, of course the criminals were not inconvenenienced,
"What sets us apart is our uniquely American gun culture and the easy access that comes with it. Pretending otherwise just keeps us chasing our tails."
" I haven’t argued for gun control as the solution."
Hmmm. What are we supposed to take away from that?
Explain "easy access."
we should pursue prohibited possessors but yet we don't,
in fact when there was 'stop and frisk' where many criminals were detained, they was a push to abolish it,
Rusty, instead of me scrolling back, maybe you can point me to where I said “easy access” and I’ll gladly clarify or own it. What I actually said was “gun access,” listed alongside other factors in comparing the U.S. to other countries. I never presented it as the culprit, and I’ve already made my view of a “solution”—or at least a starting step—clear. If you’ve edited that into something else, that’s a different conversation.
Hassayamper- yes! I wanted to convey the almost liturgical tone of the pro-trans doctrines. Perhaps I should call them the Governor of Minnesota’s detestable enormities. RR, JSM
Also Hassayamper, ref ww2 vet teachers packing: this must also have been the era when the students had rifles and shotguns in their lockers for hunting or rifle team practice? RR, JSM
Perhaps his memory is fading like Biden's, Rusty. It is getting later in the day, and you can't really expect progressives to remember what they claimed in the morning, even if you quote it accurately.
“political quacks and hacks”
If we’ve learned anything over the last ten years it’s that our government and its institutions were already generously overstocked with an endless supply of leftist quacks and hacks long before Trump ever took office. These people have done great damage to this country. They are the reason the majority of Americans no longer have faith in our institutions.
Steve Sailer has posted several times about a murderous cult/gang led by an ex-man, but I can't remember the name of it.
Hey Skipper said..."Here is how the NYT is reporting the killer today:"
I would like to know the real motivation(s) behind the insistence on using "woman" or "she/her" for the shooter (or they/them for others), when it would be easier to write and to understand the story using unambiguous, uncontroversial nouns like shooter, suspect, perpetrator, or the individual's pre-post-transition names. The excessive use of pronouns is purely political at root, but I wonder how much of the writing is because the writer believes in the usage, wants to make a point, or just wants to please the editor. Don't get me started on the singular they/them.
Italics off?
You can always check the Canadian websites (PHAC) for useful information on disease control. They do that kind of stuff up there as well. Just a thought
Trans-rage - that is ignored by the hack press(D)
RJW
"What sets us apart is our uniquely American gun culture and the easy access that comes with it. Pretending otherwise just keeps us chasing our tails."
Stop being a weasel.
In Minnesota before you can purchase an Armalite 15 you have to be 21 and get permission from your chief of police or county sheriff. Upon arriving at the gun store, before you plop down your money you must, by law, fill out federal form 4473 Which the FFL must keep on file for a minimum of 10 years. The store owner then calls the FBI to determine if you are eligible to purchase a firearm. If everything checks out you pay and then wait 10 days before you pick up your rifle.
How is that easy access?
Oh, and Billionaires
How is that easy access?
Because criminals and crazy people don't have to fill out any forms.
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