A 99-Percent Solution to Stop Mass-Murders
BY PGF
1 year, 10 months ago
Hint: The solution isn’t politics; it’s you. Source:
There are the solutions we should use, the solutions we could use, and the non-solutions that politicians have used already. Let me bring you up to speed in a hurry.
The bad news is that we built this problem of mass-murder and celebrity-murderers. The good news is that we can fix it. Society changed in significant ways over the last 5 decades. We destroyed families so many young men grew up without fathers. No one taught these young men how to control their strength and their anger. We closed our mental-health facilities and put mentally ill patients out on the street. Recently, we refused to prosecute, convict, and incarcerate violent criminals. Each of those factors certainly contribute to our problem of mass-murder today.
We can disagree about what we meant to do as we changed our public policies but there is no argument about the resulting outcome of increased mass-murder in the last several decades.
Each of those are contributing factors, but they are not the main cause of the increase. We have to address the elephant in the room.
Something else changed in our society. We’ve read the journals and the interviews of mass-murderers and they told us exactly why they kill. They are willing to die so that they can be famous. The biggest problem is the dozens of 24-7 news channels who now give each mass-murderer a 10-million dollar publicity campaign if the murderer kills enough innocent victims. Those are not my words, but theirs. You don’t have to believe me but you should believe them. We created celebrity-murderers, and we should demand that the news media stop turning these mass-murderers into instant celebrities.
The media isn’t the source of the problem. Is there insufficient evidence that “News” is simply government propagandist information of questionable validity and almost zero usefulness? If the government and its media wanted to censor mass shootings and broadcast 24/7 every self-defense firearm use, they could. But that wouldn’t help the long-term plan of keeping people in fear, so they support civilian registration and disarmament.
It isn’t obvious yet, but we are closing the chapter on the brief history of mass-murders in the United States.
We stopped them. Ordinary people like you and I stopped mass-murderers. We learned to attack the murderer if he attacks us in a bar where we are disarmed. We learned to shoot the attacker if we are armed. We found out that shooting back works really well.
Where we are allowed to go armed, ordinary armed civilians stopped attempted mass-murderers over 104 times since 2004. An armed citizen isn’t there at every attempted mass-murder. If he is there, the armed citizen doesn’t choose to intervene every time. In the last few years we were effective at stopping mass-murderers 94-percent of the time when we tried. We stopped more than half of the attempted mass-murders where we were allowed to go armed.
Other than the gradual expansion of carry rights, the people are fighting against mass murder without any establishment support whatsoever. He offers many points, good details, and plenty of data. Read the rest.
Related: Not surprisingly, there is more than one gun news story out today about Chicago residents fighting back against gangs and other criminals with their own firearms. Good for them.
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On February 21, 2023 at 12:04 am, Dan said:
It is impossible to prevent a mass shooting. If a malcontent person decides they are going to acquire a gun and shoot a bunch of people there simply is no way to prevent them from doing so because they rarely tell anyone their plans till it’s too late to intervene ahead of time. But it IS possible to STOP a mass shooting….once that act has begun. The event in a mall just outside Indianapolis a few months ago demonstrated that and again in a mall in El Paso just a few days ago. But STOPPING an active shooter requires that someone else be present who has a pair of balls AND a firearm they are capable of using. Which is why mass shooters almost ALWAYS seek out ‘gun free zones’ to commit their crimes.
On February 21, 2023 at 1:19 am, Georgiaboy61 said:
@ Dan
There is a dirty and ugly secret at the heart of the gun control agenda, which is that the powerful and influential people behind the movement are willing to – and in fact have been – holding Americans hostage in the name of advancing their nefarious agenda.
To your comment about “gun free zones,” people like billionaire Mike Bloomberg know perfectly well that armed men provide protection, which is why he and his fellow plutocrats hire heavily-armed security details equipped with automatic weapons and the latest tactical gear. Yet, Bloomberg, who is virulently anti-gun, has worked tirelessly to create and enforce “gun free zones” near schools, shopping malls, movie theaters, and in other public places. How? By using his immense wealth to leverage the political process, and in other ways.
Hanging out a sign saying “Gun Free Zone” is tantamount to saying to a certain kind of bad guy or predator, “do your thing” and they do, unfortunately. Yet, the anti-gun people keep pushing the same old nonsense and innocent people keep losing their lives. Which is why we are justified in saying that they have the blood of innocent people on their hands.
The billionaire oligarchs are more than happy to break a few eggs to make that particular anti-gun omelet.
The hypocrisy of these people is astounding. Bloomberg presumes to lecture the hoi-poi about the dangers of guns from behind a wall of heavily-armed men he hired right off of the New York City police force when his term as mayor ended some years ago. Rules, apparently, are for the little people….
On February 21, 2023 at 11:04 am, 41mag said:
@PGF – Thank you for putting this out.
On February 21, 2023 at 3:06 pm, Wyotana said:
Guns are very nice to have if you’re on the scene of a mass shooting. They are not the only solution, and it’s a grave mistake to say so.
Take that sumbee down, boys. Stick your thumbs down his eyeballs while you knee his kidneys and rip his throat out. It’s far better to take a bullet attacking than it is running and hiding.
The fundamental cause of all these shootings is the emasculated modern culture. While the feminazis almost never pull the trigger, it is they who have created the opportune environment. Boys ought to be taught the nobility and utility of laying down their lives to protect women and children. Young men who were properly taught this would never be shooters. They would be the killers of shooters.
Alas, this even a more unwelcome message than the utility of being armed is. There have been hundreds of state and local victories on gun rights. Yet there is not a politician anywhere who will take on the suffragettes.
Thus, the shootings will go on.