Happiness is a warm gun

[Stavros]

It is all so depressingly familiar -another mass shooting, another denial by people such as Rafael Cruz that guns are a problem. There is this article in The Daily Beast, which does add a little more profle that has been clarified in the Trump years and associated events, but as I don't live in the US I can't be sure if there is still no realistic prospect of meaningful gun control laws, or is it now for the individual States to act? Is it not ironic that Rafael Cruz's arguments about Black people with guns becoming 'the great fear' are almost exactly what was behind the first gun control laws in the US that followed the Civil War and the fear that freed slaves would rampage across the South?

"There have been seven gun massacres in seven days, but congressional Republicans are staying the course of claiming that passing any kind of gun-control legislation “would do nothing to stop these murders.” It’s a message that they’ve paired, for good measure, with the road-tested racist tactic of stirring up white delusions of Black criminality among their base. The message is, essentially, guns don’t kill people, Black people do — so be sure to lock and load.

...Senator Ted Cruz, the biggest congressional recipient of gun lobby dollars at last count, went on TV this week to pin mass shootings on BLM because—I’m still confused by the racist math here—white people are worried that roving bands of Black civil rights protesters are “going to come into the suburbs and raid people’s homes.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/gop-rule-w...090601142.html

[Stavros]

Massacre in Texas. America Responds.

"We don't need gun control. We need to return to God" -Marjorie Taylor Greene.

"We know already fool. It's a transsexual illegal alien named Salvatore Ramos. It's apparently your kind of trash" -Paul Gosar [tweet deleted two hours after being posted].

Steve Kerr -Slam. Dunk. Life-0, Death- 50.

[Stavros]

Hot in Houston. Hot shots to gather and pray, and sell as many lies and excuses as they can. Maybe Boris Johnson will zoom in from No 10 Downing St, to offer them advice on how to treat Democracy and the people with contempt.

"Mr Abbott has been a strong proponent of loosening any and all restrictions on firearm ownership during his time as Texas’ governor and recently signed into law a bill that eliminated state background checks for firearm purchases and allows anyone old enough to own a firearm to carry it without any training or need for a permit.He has also signed legislation prohibiting Texas law enforcement officers from cooperating with any federal investigation into violations of federal firearms laws."
National Rifle Association convention in Texas is still on despite school massacre (yahoo.com)

[Stavros]

Are guns valued more than the lives of Children in the US, in Texas?

"Staffing schools with police officers is not the answer either. Since 1998, the government has invested over $1bn to increase police presence in schools; according to one study only 1% of schools reported having police officers on-site in 1975 but by 2018, about 58% of schools reported having a police presence. There were already armed school district police officers at the school in Uvalde and they did not stop the shooter, who was wearing body armor. A sergeant with the Texas department of public safety told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that “there were several law enforcement that engaged the suspect, but he was able to make entry into the school”.
If guns made people safer, then the United States would be the safest place in the world. How many more children have to die before the right accept that the answer to bad guys with guns is not good guys with guns, it’s getting rid of guns."
Who are the right blaming for the Texas shooting? Trans people, immigrants and victims’ parents | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian

[Stavros]

Another American half-wit who can't make the connection between selling weapons of war to teenagers, hell, anybody, who then goes to war against children, Black people, Asians, hell, anyone.

And he wants to go to Congress! To protect the right of every American to buy weapons of war - adios, America!

Aaron Rupar on Twitter: "Herschel Walker's solution to school shootings involves "a department that can look at young men that's looking at women that's looking at social media." https://t.co/WAi7a4mwgz" / Twitter

[Stavros]

Pull the trigger, and the Confederacy of Dunces lines up to prove they are brainless morons

Congressional Representative Lauren Boebert-
“When 9/11 happened, we didn’t ban planes,” (actually, the US did, albeit temporarily)
Lauren Boebert’s bizarre defence for no gun action: ‘After 9/11, we didn’t ban planes’ | The Independent

Senator Susan Collins
“Although we are still waiting for more details, it is hard to believe that someone who would do this was not severely mentally ill. Congress should look at enacting a yellow flag law based on the one we have in Maine, which has due process rights and also involves a medical professional in the decision.”
-Or you could just stop selling battlefield weapons to citizens, be they sane or mentally ill -as for the 'Yellow Flag' -see the remarks on His Holiness Governor Abbott below.

Senator ¡Hola Rafael! Cruz
“Heidi and I are lifting up in prayer the entire Uvalde community during this devastating time and we mourn the lives that were taken by this act of evil.”
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz receives sharp backlash for comments in wake of Uvalde school shooting | The Hill
-Will they say prayers at the NRA this weekend? Probably. Will the NRA and Rafael decide the time has come to stop selling battlefield weapons to lunatics? Nah...

Governor, His Holiness Gregory Abbott
Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that the Uvalde school shooter had a "mental health challenge" and the state needed to "do a better job with mental health" — yet in April he slashed $211 million from the department that oversees mental health programs.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz receives sharp backlash for comments in wake of Uvalde school shooting | The Hill
'Lord, let they servant now depart in peace...'

Senator Bill Cassidy
-Yo, Hogs in Louisiana don't got rights?

GOP Senator Offers Untamed Response To Question About Assault Weapons | HuffPost UK U.S. News (huffingtonpost.co.uk)

[MrFanti]

It is all so depressingly familiar -another mass shooting, another denial by people such as Rafael Cruz that guns are a problem. There is this article in The Daily Beast, which does add a little more profle that has been clarified in the Trump years and associated events, but as I don't live in the US I can't be sure if there is still no realistic prospect of meaningful gun control laws, or is it now for the individual States to act? Is it not ironic that Rafael Cruz's arguments about Black people with guns becoming 'the great fear' are almost exactly what was behind the first gun control laws in the US that followed the Civil War and the fear that freed slaves would rampage across the South?

"There have been seven gun massacres in seven days, but congressional Republicans are staying the course of claiming that passing any kind of gun-control legislation “would do nothing to stop these murders.” It’s a message that they’ve paired, for good measure, with the road-tested racist tactic of stirring up white delusions of Black criminality among their base. The message is, essentially, guns don’t kill people, Black people do — so be sure to lock and load.

...Senator Ted Cruz, the biggest congressional recipient of gun lobby dollars at last count, went on TV this week to pin mass shootings on BLM because—I’m still confused by the racist math here—white people are worried that roving bands of Black civil rights protesters are “going to come into the suburbs and raid people’s homes.”
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/gop-rule-w...090601142.html

Democrats and Republicans are both highly confused about LEGAL Black gun owners.
https://blackgunownersassociation.org
https://www.blackgunownersmagazine.com

[MrFanti]

Democrats and Republicans are both highly confused about LEGAL Black gun owners.
https://blackgunownersassociation.org
https://www.blackgunownersmagazine.com

Forgot one more.....
https://naaga.co

[Stavros]

Democrats and Republicans are both highly confused about LEGAL Black gun owners.
https://blackgunownersassociation.org
https://www.blackgunownersmagazine.com

None of your links illuminate your claim. And, as I am sure you know, the first laws introduced by States and the Federal Govt to limit gun ownership were intended to prevent Black people from owning firearms, both before the Civil War and after it, when there was a fear that freed slaves were about to go on the rampage across the South....which never happened. The first link has a discussion of firearms and militias and how the law has moved backwards and forwards in States, but with Black people fundamental to the arguments for control.
The very racist history of gun control - The Boston Globe
Black Gun Ownership: From Negro Militias To Black Armament : Code Switch : NPR

The second major limitation on gun ownership in the California Republic was a response to the parade of legal weaponry by the Black Panthers in Oakland -say thanks to Ronald Reagan and the NRA for 'protecting' Americans from the Panthers....
The NRA Supported Gun Control When the Black Panthers Had the Weapons - HISTORY

Can Black Americans also be mass murderers? Sure. So take away the guns.

NRA, Trump, Abbott: Mental Health....how can you determine the mental health of an 18-year old buying battlefield weapons if there are no background checks?

NRA, Trump, Abbott, Rafael -Arm the Teachers! -So if the gunman enters a classroom and shoots the teacher first, then what?

Security on Site! There was security on site. They failed. Is anyone from the police to the Governor's office going to resign because of this failure?

[Stavros]

Can evil be explained? Not according to the men who think the solution to gun grime is more guns. In fact many efforts have been made to explain it, outside of the religious/theological concept of evil as a violation of God's Commands.

Cognitive therapy and theory may help, as the link tries to do. It may be that the shooter has a perception of the world that is not shared by wider society, and thus when he decides to resolve his issue(s) by attacking society, the natural response is a blank rejection without any further explanation. There is both a cognitive failure and a moral failure, and it may be both perpetrator and victim who are failing to understand the process taking place.

It could be that a young man is convinced he is important, but cannot reconcile his grand perception of himself with wider society's apparent indifference to his status. Unable to reconcile competing perceptions that cause him pain, the young man decides to prove how strong and powerful he is by transferring his pain onto those who are weak and defenceless. The standard triad of murder emerges: The motive is self-satisfaction, the justification of the self; the means is the weapon that he uses, the opportunity provided by the congregation of weak and vulnerable children in a small space that he can control.

What, to the observer can appear to be an act of mindless violence, may in fact have a logical cause and aim, when seen from the perspective of the man with a gun. In other cases, if the shooter is convinced that Black people are the cause of America's ills, 'taking them out' is a logical means of solving a problem, with the rider that being convinced 'only he' can do it, gives more weight to the selfish aim of liberation. It may be that those shooters who kill themselves, realize in then moment of carnage that their actions have achieved nothing, and lacking any broad value system to self-correct, choose to self-destruct.

Whether or not a person is 'born evil' or made evil may be where the research is limited -how the person is raised, in what environment, with what degree of socialization must be factors.

But to wish away bad acts as bad acts without any further explanation is laziness, just as to call for even more guns to solve a problem made worse by guns is irrational and a denial of freedom in its most basic form.

The analysis is here-
Frontiers | The Cognition of Severe Moral Failure: A Novel Approach to the Perception of Evil | Psychology (frontiersin.org)