Dirk the Daring
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The answer is to address the proliferation of mental health issues across the United States -- including those who identify as transgender. When one looks at the trends across mass shootings (including schools), you see patterns:
- Mental health or illness issues
- Some sort of social isolation
- Prescribed psychotic drugs
- Some perceived grievance
Guns have not changed much in the last 100+ years .. and society has. Why do politicians and activists continue to target an outcome of an underlying problem?
I keep going back to this in my own head as I try to make sense of all this. We live in a society that lends creditability if not outright currency to the idea of endless victimhood - and victims are not possible without oppressors. Your station in life is the FAULT of someone else! That's the mentality that needs to be changed, you are where you are in life because of the choices YOU'VE made and you need to own them. This killer apparently left behind a manifesto, meaning this person felt aggrieved by someone, which I somewhat understand. We spend entirely too much time talking AT each other and not TO each other, including on this very board. Regarding this trans behavior, I think most people, including those on the right, would have no issues with this behavior being perpetrated within the confines of one's own home, or even in an environment with like-minded individuals. That trans people exist is less the concern versus this strange desire to want to introduce young children to this behavior. Imagine how people would react if brought 6 female strippers to perform their acts to grade-school children - there would be completely justifiable outrage - and that is how the right frames this issue. We don't HATE TRANS PEOPLE as is so often the standard rebuke, we simply don't want it shared with children. If you see that limited parameter as being an aggrieved party then there are almost certainly even bigger issues you need to address.