Delta4Embassy
Gold Member
Problem with shootings in the US isn't gun control laws, availability of guns, or anything of the sort. That's like blaming the car for a drunk driving accident, or the syringe in a heroin overdose. The problem lies in how we eagerly hyperfactionalize people in our country.
Instead of everyone being our fellow Americans we readily and seemingly very eagerly categorize ourselves into tiny cliques. Democrats and Republicans, Liberals or Conservatives, Christians or not-Christians, legal and illegal, etc. When you do that people not in your category become marginalized and less respected as fellow human beings and what happens to them up to, and including their being killed is much less objectionable than if to those in your own grouping.
The shooter's alledged question of what religion are you illustrates this well. He wanted to kill those not of his own faith, but not those of it.
Instead of everyone being our fellow Americans we readily and seemingly very eagerly categorize ourselves into tiny cliques. Democrats and Republicans, Liberals or Conservatives, Christians or not-Christians, legal and illegal, etc. When you do that people not in your category become marginalized and less respected as fellow human beings and what happens to them up to, and including their being killed is much less objectionable than if to those in your own grouping.
The shooter's alledged question of what religion are you illustrates this well. He wanted to kill those not of his own faith, but not those of it.