I wish there was real outrage about the unresolved anger that's leading to so many young people callously shooting people in the US. People see a Columbine and say "Ban those guns!" As if hiding new Guns to be manufactured will take away the four guns per American that are in homes nowadays, or that guns are the real problem.
Crazy angry people are the real problem. In many cases, given their circumstances, their rage makes sense. But that doesn't mean that they don't end up hurting a lot of other people in the process of shooting or killing another person.
Crazy angry people are the real problem. In many cases, given their circumstances, their rage makes sense. But that doesn't mean that they don't end up hurting a lot of other people in the process of shooting or killing another person.
“April Fools… Where does it end?” (Relative of victim's comment, from the video linked below in the story referenced.)
Many say Guns Kill people, but I think uncontrolled rage is the usual trigger-man when guns kill. The other day, the rage was coming from a 16-year-old who appears to have committed a cold-blooded execution of a 31-year-old man.
Folks want more gun laws, but how many are crying for Anger Management and Conflict Resolution therapy for all people in areas worst hit by gun violence? Try to find such a group at a low cost or for free in Pittsburgh. Or better yet, check whether this stuff is being taught to children in school in the poorest areas of the city and outlying areas of Pittsburgh. That's when and where anger management most desperately needs to be taught, to start: In so-called "at-risk" areas.
Yet, we subsidize stadiums owned by billionaires, where millionaires smile and wax on how great it is to be a Pittsburgher. And it's true it's great here, for some--if you live long enough to enjoy it.We need to recognize that we could save a lot of emotional pain, hassle for police, health care and criminal care and lots of government cash if we could help folks like that 16-year-old who allegedly murdered the 31-year-old, well before they make such a rash and life-changing decision that affects so many. People are pissed off in this country. They should be, for lots of reasons--not least of which is the con-job they've been given claiming our government is a sturdy 3-legged stool when it's really legless and mostly the other kind of stool--the crap kind.
After all it'd be in the public good to do it, and a way of protecting the populace now and in the future. Pissed-off people often have reasons to be so--even a dumb dog that is beaten regularly knows enough to bite back sometimes, in raw anger if not in defense--but I think most of these same people who are shooting people are not at their core warped, self-destructive people.
So why do we allow them to become twisted so, often at such a young age? Or rather, why ARE Americans so angry and twisted? And why aren't we all pissed about it?
After all it'd be in the public good to do it, and a way of protecting the populace now and in the future. Pissed-off people often have reasons to be so--even a dumb dog that is beaten regularly knows enough to bite back sometimes, in raw anger if not in defense--but I think most of these same people who are shooting people are not at their core warped, self-destructive people.
So why do we allow them to become twisted so, often at such a young age? Or rather, why ARE Americans so angry and twisted? And why aren't we all pissed about it?
