Line6 HXFX wrote: Wed Mar 29, 2023 2:29 am
Bullying in High School, destroys students lives, can be so intense it leads to them then to not giving a single fuck (as their whole sense of self is crushed) and then leads to them wanting to take revenge.
Eradicate bullying and save lives.
Eradicate bullying, make school a great experience and you won't have so many terrible shootings.
Problem is teachers are into bullying too.
Kids are not mentally developed enough to deal with bullies emotionally, the brain isn't really in not give a fuck mode till you are like 30.
Words are weapons, you don't have real jobs anymore, just English lit grads using verbose abuse as a money earner.
Sometimes think our whole Capitalist, Right Wing, economic system amd Society itself, is held together with personal abuse and bullying. Don't have to look very far to find evidence of this. It happens when a tiny percentage have all the cash and all the opportunities and don't want to give fuck all away, and want to keep it all, with zero moral justifications.
There are a thousand derogatory words for a poor sick and unemployed person and like none for them.
So as bullying is key to this society, it is inevitable that there is going to be lots of distress, lots of misery and lots of "not give a single fuck" style revenge attacks.
In the U.K. kids use Knives, but it's the same disease.
False equivalence!
48,830 deaths by gun in US in 2021 - this includes all deaths inc suicides. Murders were about 20,000. In the UK there was less than 300 murders using a knife. Even allowing for the fact that the US pop is larger (333m v 67m) it is pretty clear that the US gun death problem is on a completely different scale.
Under 18s cannot buy a knife in the UK and carrying one in the UK is also illegal. Stop and search and other police interventions, for all their issues and problems, is about getting knifes off the streets. Carrying a knife is a serious offence in the UK and can lead to a max 4 year jail sentence, I've visited states in the US where strange looking men dressed as action man openly carry assault rifles to the shops! Absolutely mad.
I suspect that many on here have missed that this month is the 27th anniversary of the Dunblane shootings. As a Scot I remember the shocking incident only too well and the grief that followed it. Fortunately we had a sane UK Gov who almost immediately made handguns illegal in the UK. However let's not forget that our very own Boris Blonde Bumbelcunt Johnson argued against it saying 'the handgun ban was like a nanny confiscating toys and a knee-jerk reaction' - what a prick. Automatic and semi automatic weapons are also illegal.
Since 2000 we have had 7 mass shootings in the UK, none involving schools. The US have had c130 mass shootings in 2023 alone, many in schools. Anyone who argues that gun availability doesnt lead to more deaths by shooting is just plain deluded.
More people die of suicide by shooting in the USA than being murdered, a sorry fact often over looked. Giving open access to guns in the US use creates a greater opportunity for ill or dangerous people to kill themselves and/or others more easily. Guns are the problem!