well, if it works�
Sure that would solve nothing, heâd just need to take out the teacher and heâd have the classroom to himself then. All the kids need to be armed too.
I blame the parents.
Its funny how in all of these states where concealed weapons are legal and shit loads of people are carrying semi automatic weapons on their person (for god knows what), how no one, no one, has ever returned fire during one of these massacres.
I always think of TASEâs favourite smiley when I hear one of these fat fuck white republican politicians or fox news anchors banging on about arming teachers, when theyâd warble a fucking mile themselves (unable to run due to their obesity) before shooting back.
One of these cunt congressmen was on the media earlier saying how it would have been great of the pricipal had been able to pull an M4 out and blown the guys head off. Americans are clearly completely mental people.
You know the score mate. Maybe just have AK-47âs hanging on all the walls and hand grenades and rocket launchers stored underneath the desks as general access weapons. It is in their constitution after all.
This is the type of gun yer man used.
That would protect the shit out of any home.
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[size=3]Connecticut shooting, white males, and mass murder[/size]
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[]CONNECTICUT SCHOOL SHOOTING
[]DECEMBER 14, 2012
[]BY: WILLIAM HAMBY
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Itâs a tragedy. One of the worst in American history. Twenty-six people dead, including twenty children. Dozens more children who will live their lives with the terrible memory. Tens of thousands of parents who will wonder quietly whether it might one day happen to their child. A community in utter shock and disbelief. For the family and community members directly affected by this tragedy, it is their day to grieve. For the millions of Americans that have been affected by gun death, today may be a day to relive grief and loss. For the rest of us, we can take today to think critically about the problem of mass shootings to try to come up with a solution. This is how we who are not directly affected can honor the dead. In this spirit, I will offer one perspective which may help explain why these things are happening.[/font]
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Through history, there have been a lot of suggestions as to the cause of mass shootings. In the 60s, it was the permissive culture. In subsequent decades, itâs been the teaching of evolution, working mothers, birth control pills, and âevangelical jockocracies.â The interesting thing about all of these suggestions is that they may point indirectly at a much more plausible explanation. To begin with, we must ask who is offering these explanations in the first place. Overwhelmingly, the answer is white males. Most likely not coincidental is the fact that since 1982, one very specific type of mass shootings has been almost entirely perpetrated by white males.[/font]
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Rachel Kalish and Michael Kimmel (2010) proposed a mechanism that might well explain why white males are routinely going crazy and killing people. Itâs called âaggrieved entitlement.â According to the authors, it is âa gendered emotion, a fusion of that humiliating loss of manhood and the moral obligation and entitlement to get it back. And its gender is masculine.â This feeling was clearly articulated by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, the perpetrators of the Columbine Massacre. Harris said, âPeople constantly make fun of my face, my hair, my shirtsâŚâ A group of girls asked him, âWhy are you doing this?â He replied, "Weâve always wanted to do this. This is payback⌠This is for all the sht you put us through. This is what you deserve."[/font]
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At the risk of getting too existentialist, Iâd like to propose a very simple and elegant explanation for not only school shootings but a host of other barbaric acts in recent years: White men are having a crisis of both aggrievement and entitlement. One need only look at the 2012 election season to see less brutal but equally mind-numbing examples of white men going mad because they are losing their power. The âRepublican Meltdownâ is a perfect example of men who previously had all the control escalating to madness when that control was lost.[/font]
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Until the 1980s, when semi-random spree murders âinexplicablyâ became the province of young white men, there was no need for young white men to resort to this kind of thing. Whatever happened in society, they would be the winners. These days, itâs still not the worst thing to be a white male â not by a long shot â but itâs not nearly as cushy as it used to be. Womenâs rights have grown by leaps and bounds in the last 30 years. Marriage has become more advantageous to women than men since no-fault divorce and custody policy favoring women have become the norm. We have⌠(gasp)⌠a black president. If someone grew up indoctrinated into the God and Country of the White Man, itâs easy to understand how regardless of personal circumstance, feelings of entitlement and superiority could already be on shaky ground. One need only look up any of the hundreds of âMenâs Rights Movementâ websites, which are often thinly veiled hate groups, to see examples of (usually white) men who seem to be feeling very emasculated and powerless.[/font]
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I want to say this next bit very carefully. It is absolutely true that white men have lost a lot of power in the last few decades. Inasmuch as these shooters are angry about feelings of powerlessness, their feelings are at least understandable. However, white men needed to lose a lot of power. Without exaggerating, one could say that a history of America is a history of white men lording power over⌠pretty much anyone who wasnât a white man. If America was ever going to truly be a land of equality, white men needed to lose their power.[/font]
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The thing is, losing power hurts. Thatâs the âaggrieveâ part of aggrieved entitlement. Itâs one thing for a bunch of white men to feel hurt because they are no longer the kings of their own private castles, rulers of all they survey. Itâs another thing for them to feel like theyâre entitled to power, and more importantly, entitled to punish others for taking it away. And that â aggrievement plus the feeling of entitlement â is what may well drive people like Adam Lanza to these horrific crimes.[/font]
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Thereâs another point of commonality for many â perhaps most â of these crimes. Most of the perpetrators end up dead. Many kill themselves at the end of the spree, while others commit what is known as âsuicide by cop,â forcing police to shoot them rather than submit to arrest. This tendency is consistent with aggrieved entitlement. Masculinity, for many white men, is identical to sense of self. To be a man is literally the same as being masculine. This is particularly true of men in strongly Conservative Christian areas where homosexuality and femininity are equated. For some of these men, to be stripped of masculinity is to be redefined as nothing worthwhile. When someone feels like nothing, suicide often feels like a reasonable option. For someone whoâs really, really mad about feeling like nothing, taking revenge first may add a bit of satisfaction and righteous vengeance.[/font]
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Speaking of strongly Conservative Christian areas, itâs probably not a coincidence that almost all shootings of this nature happen in rural communities. Todayâs shooting is no exception. In America, conservative religiosity is most prevalent in rural areas. I think itâs important to at least entertain the idea that strongly conservative religious communities which indoctrinate young white men into male superiority are breeding grounds for these kinds of criminals. The Conservative Christian model of masculinity and male power is simply not the reality of how America works today. Pretending that itâs so is just setting males up for disappointment. And feelings of emasculation. And aggrievement. And⌠entitlement to revenge.[/font]
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There are, of course, other perspectives. Already, the internet is abuzz with reports that the shooter may have been mentally ill. We know that previous shooters have had mental health issues, sometimes very serious. We have been tempted in the past to suggest that insufficient mental health care is the real solution to the problem of mass shootings. Certainly, it might be part of the solution, but ascribing these killings to mental illness isnât sufficient. People in all demographics have mental health problems. Why is it nearly always a white man going on a shooting spree? Why do all the white men have such similar profiles? Why do they live in small towns? These are questions that demand answers, and aggrieved entitlement plausibly answers them all.[/font]
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To be sure, there have been mass murders committed by people of all races throughout history, and not every mass murder since 1980 has been committed by a young white male. However, this one subset, which centers around schools, has enough unique characteristics that it seems to demand its own answer.[/font]
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What if my hypothesis is correct? What if the main reason these shootings keep occurring is that white men arenât handling equality very well? There arenât, I believe, any easy answers. Even so, we can take this perspective with us, and we can work to think of ways to help young white males grow up in a society where the expectation of privilege is never indoctrinated. We can teach them early in life how to cope with rejection. We can realize that pointing fingers and blaming others might feel good in the short term, but in the long term, only working towards positive solutions will really help. And yes, we can absolutely continue to advocate for better mental healthcare. Finally, I think we need to be brave enough to have conversations like this one. We need to admit the possibility that by perpetuating the lie of white male superiority despite strong societal and scientific pressure to change, we may have created our own monster.[/font]
Thick as unagitated shite is what they are pal.
His kill rate was very impressive but Iâm surprised he left the shotgun in the car. The enclosed spaces of a school corridor would have been made for its blast. I donât like these cunts who just give up at the end either. Should have shot it out with the cops and died with his boots on.
Thatâs a fairly poor article in fairness Sidney, ignoring as it does the fact that at least one of the recent shooters was South Korean and the fact that the last two were clearly mentally disturbed and that there was no obvious race or misogynistic component to the killings. It reads like a thesis he had prepared ready to roll out whether the circumstances fit the thesis or not.
The primary concern here is the easy access that people devoid of any human empathy have to automatic weapons.
Thatâs why I said almost always white males.
The gun lobby in the US is entirely the type of âoppressedâ (in their own mind) white male referred to in the article.
Chocolate Mice demonstrated a similar mindset in a thread a few weeks back if I remember correctly.
Have you met many of this gun lobby?
uncle tom all ballsy again :rolleyes:
I met that cunt Michael Graham once and he seemed pretty oppressed in his own mind.
Strange though how when whites murder somebody itâs usually the old mental illness at fault, whereas with blacks itâs just because theyâre, you know, scum.
FFS, generalise much you inbred Tipp and Wexford hicks?
Ned Kelly putting a bucket on his head is the extent of the shootout history in your âcountryâ mate.
Ah jaysus. Who said that?
FFS, did you not get the irony of the generalisation or are you really that thick?