Let us be honest, just like the spike of “Golden Age” serial killers from 1970 through 2000, the late 1990s and the 2000s have seen a spike in mass shootings (Vronsky, 2018; Davis, 2020).  However, let us be completely honest – just as laws that ban murder, kidnapping, and rape, did not prevent, or even dissuade serial killers, gun laws do not prevent or dissuade mass shootings.  Further, let us make some delineations in definitions – per the FBI, a mass shooting is an event wherein a shooter kills four or more individuals in a single event (although this can take place in multiple locations).  This definition generally excludes acts of foreign terrorism, domestic violence, and gang activity.  These exclusions are made for statistical simplicity and because we know why those shootings take place – and none of them will be stopped with any of the silly and reductive ideas proposed by the anti-gun crowd (Davis, 2020).

Let us first address the elephant in the room – the 2^nd Amendment.  I will not argue its validity or application to civilian ownership based on the mental gymnastics of those who are either intellectually dishonest, or mentally incapable of understanding the simple text in the context in which it was written.  If you want to ban guns legally, you MUST amend the Constitution.  If you want to impose your will, you are asking to plunge the country into a civil war.  That being said, something must be done – right?

Since 1965 the mental health system of the United States has become a shell of its former self, partly due to the revelations of the experiments performed in nearly every country, from Imperial Japan to Nazi Germany – and the United States, along with the ground shift from treatment through inpatient therapy to the use of psychotropic medications to “control” mental illness.  The Federal government de-funded inpatient mental health starting in 1965, and it was gone entirely by the early 1980s.  When Thorazine was introduced in the United States, the total institutionalized population was around 558,239 patients, the highest it has ever been.  By 1975 the population had dwindled to 193,000, and by 1994 it was only 71,619.  If one considers that by the law of averages, this means that over 800,000 severely mentally ill people are on the streets today, the statistics become concerning.  If we then consider that it is possible that up to 4.6% of Americans can be classified today with serious mental illness, the 800,000 that was speculated in 1994 has turned into more than 18 times that many today (Davis, 2020).  What we have is a crisis of mental health, with about 14.5 million seriously mentally ill people in this country – most of whom are un- or underdiagnosed, off their meds, untreated, or posting on TikTok, and when they finally break the law, they go to prison – where they remain untreated.

This is further exacerbated by the acceptance of the insane as normal by the American Psychiatric Association.  The normalization of everything from gender dysphoria to schizophrenia by the APA has bled into higher education, and poisoned the societal norms of the Western world (Wright, et al, 2008,  Dudley & Turkington, 2011).  This fits the scheme of Marxists who want nothing less than the degradation of Western Society in support of the ultimate goal of establishing the domination of the  International Comintern– which in and of itself is an insane idea (Skousen, 1958).  As the APA and Marxist ideology progresses toward this goal, they normalize every sort of perversion, destroy the traditional family, denigrate traditional values, create new religious fervor based on distortions of science, and seek to control every aspect of individual liberty and expression that doesn’t involve poisoning the minds and attitudes of American children. In fact – they outright lie about the facts, claiming that there is zero correlation between mass shootings and mental illness in an attempt to gaslight average Americans into believing that the problem is not that crazy people have no neocortex control over their emotional responses and animalistic lizard brain instincts of the limbic cortex and cerebellum (Vronsky, 2018; Educational Fund to Stop Gun Violence, 2020).

We continue to ignore the mass shootings that happen in some of the most gun-prohibitive cities in the nation, because the kids committing the murders of other kids do not do so in a mall or a school – they do it in the streets.  Yet we continue to allow children to be reared by TikTok and YouTube, damn the Father figure that instilled values and disciplined the unruly children, and incentivize dependence on the largesse of taxpayer dollars while virtually eliminating the “need” for a caring, protecting, providing Father in the lives of children.  Further, we soften or eliminate penalties, and cycle felons through a revolving door of a weak and ineffective legal system that is acting in poor stead of mental institutions.  Combine a lack of good home training, normalization of mental illness, dependence on anyone but one’s self, a lack of treatment, accountability, morals, and value for human life – not to mention the near perfection of criminal forensics, and it is no wonder that those that would-be serial killers have become mass murders instead.  With 14.5 million seriously mentally ill people on the street with a flat refusal by the APA, FBI, and the majority of those that tearfully state that “if it saves just one child” to institutionalize or even flag those that should be flagged, and instead pursue illegal and immoral programs designed to subjugate a free people.

Can we stop pretending that this is a crisis of an inanimate object?  Mass murder will happen regardless of mode – and many nations with some of the highest murder rates have the most restrictive gun laws on the planet.  Mode is not the issue, even in mass murders – see also the Waukesha SUV Christmas parade attack, Yunnan province knife attack, and hundreds of others.  We have a mental health crisis – and mass shootings are just one symptom.

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