Posted on Feb 14, 2018
What part of our society is ultimately responsible for the shooting at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL?
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Beyond my utter shock and dismay at this latest school shooting, I ask myself why? Who failed “us”. why?
Do we need a ‘police state’ to moniter and report eveyone with an personality abberation?
Do too many of our citizens choose to look the ‘other way”’ rather than accept the responsibilty of reporting “deranged members of society”?
At age 12, in 1945, I was cleared to ‘fire at will’ on the farm. I possessed a 22 caliber rifle and the 410 shotgun arrived soon after.
Positive action is needed, your thoughts?
Do we need a ‘police state’ to moniter and report eveyone with an personality abberation?
Do too many of our citizens choose to look the ‘other way”’ rather than accept the responsibilty of reporting “deranged members of society”?
At age 12, in 1945, I was cleared to ‘fire at will’ on the farm. I possessed a 22 caliber rifle and the 410 shotgun arrived soon after.
Positive action is needed, your thoughts?
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As a society we could start with morals and completely reject the idea of moral relativity. Then recognize the fact that we have traded the concept of "tolerance" and making everyone feel good about themselves ,regardless of their life choices, for standing up for what is right. Then we could look at the fact that phones and social media are turning us into self absorbed narcissists who stake their own personal value on the feedback they get from posting pictures of themselves constantly and whining about their "first world problems". Then while we're at it we could look at the fact that most of the time these people do this because they have been rejected by society, and the only way they feel they will be worth anything is if they are made a celebrity by the media for shooting up a school.
Nobody teaches their kids right from wrong anymore. It's "This is okay for jimmy because he has different morals than we do." or "Even though I know this is wrong, society is telling me that I'm a [insert random adjective-ist] and I will be vilified for being "intolerant".
I'm gonna be honest here folks. All of these are symptoms of a dying society. Don't believe me? Look at Rome. Rampant over-sexualization, senseless violence, the abandonment of ideals in favor of tolerance, obsession with material objects...The truth is America is on the verge of a cultural collapse, but 90% of the country is believing the corporate narrative shoved down their throat every day. "Just buy this new thing and everything will be okay. What do you have to worry about? Just drink and party and everything is fine." Shit, even the media is owned by the corporations.
Nobody teaches their kids right from wrong anymore. It's "This is okay for jimmy because he has different morals than we do." or "Even though I know this is wrong, society is telling me that I'm a [insert random adjective-ist] and I will be vilified for being "intolerant".
I'm gonna be honest here folks. All of these are symptoms of a dying society. Don't believe me? Look at Rome. Rampant over-sexualization, senseless violence, the abandonment of ideals in favor of tolerance, obsession with material objects...The truth is America is on the verge of a cultural collapse, but 90% of the country is believing the corporate narrative shoved down their throat every day. "Just buy this new thing and everything will be okay. What do you have to worry about? Just drink and party and everything is fine." Shit, even the media is owned by the corporations.
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SSgt Michael David Rose
SFC Gary Burress - Actually, the OSS was involved with Col. Aaron Banks meeting with Ho Chi Minh during the later stages of WWII. The CIA flew resupply missions to the French outpost at Dien Bien Phu in 1954.
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CPO Darrel Ellis
And for the record, I agree the responsibility lies with the gunman in Parkland as well, but the responsibility for protecting students lies with the school.
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CPT Glenn Dowdy
How many federal law enforcement officers would deploy, or how many troops living off post report for duty if someone like Anonymous posted complete lists of all federal LEOs/military, their family information, their home address and the schools their children attend in the event of "hostilities"?
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COL William Oseles
CPO Darrel Ellis - Don't forget the local law enforcement went along with the school district's scheme to stop enforcing laws to improve their crime statistic numbers so they could get more government money for 'improving'.
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Plain and simple. No other explanation. The shooter, and ONLY the shooter, is responsible for this tragic and needless loss of life.
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SFC Tony Bennett
that's not our "societies" take on it from the many remarks I've read on crime in this country. Based on what I've read, In THIS case the responsibility is the shooter only, he for some reason DOES NOT represent any others. He is not a "thug". But under the exact same circumstance, had he been black. Then our "society" would have gone into "thug", "BLACKS"(all inclusive mode). Why is that? Can anyone explain it to me? Now if you doubt this. Simply visit ANY story about this shooting where there is a remarks section.
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COL William Oseles
SSG Edward Tilton - A look at the assault weapons ban's 10 years in effect showed NO STATISTICAL EVIDENCE of reducing gun violence.
But then FACTS seem to have no bearing on Banner's feelings
But then FACTS seem to have no bearing on Banner's feelings
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Sadly, there are people that lack the ability/training/upbringing/genetics (Pick one) to know right from wrong. With the millions of people in the world, the statistics will always show us that there are people that will do things that are not what normal people do. The only thing we can do is provide a strong prevention to those that want to do bad things. Good Armies, Good Law enforcement personnel and structures that lend a hand in prevention are needed. God Bless the educators that are on the front line in that war.
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COL (Join to see) - genetics? I submit to you, COL., We all have a sense of "justice", and I believe with the appropriate research, we'd find ALL of the shooters, possessed a strong moral conviction and code of ethics, and were responding to their interpretation of perceived wrongs.
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