There are a lot of societies with guns that don't have mass shootings. Commonplace mass shootings for whatever reason are a uniquely American phenomenon.
My hypothesis rolls around two different things.
The first, not the guns themselves, but the attitude towards the guns. I don't know of anywhere else on Earth that guns are considered as a very first resort sort of solution to problems with other people. Canada only very rarely has school shootings, and it's considered to be a big deal if they do happen. And Europe has had some school shootings as well, they do happen other areas of the world just not as commonly. But you can see it even in the gangs that come to Canada from the us. Canadian gangs are very rarely used firearms, but American gangs are coming in through toronto, and they're bringing their American gun culture with them, and now more and more we're seeing criminals carrying guns in canada.
The second, is the overprescription of antidepressants. I've conceptualized antidepressants as emotional morphine. Whatever you are feeling gets the volume turned down. Now in the case of negative emotions like depression, that might be a good thing. But sometimes those emotions are things like discussed at the idea of going to shoot up your school. It's one of the same reasons that suicide rates are so much higher amongst people who are prescribed antidepressants, because the powerful emotion that would stop someone has been repressed by the drug.
In switzerland, every able-bodied man between certain ages has a military rifle at home in case they get conscripted into military service. So obviously just having guns around doesn't automatically cause these things, because Switzerland has a very low instance of gun crime.
My hypothesis rolls around two different things.
The first, not the guns themselves, but the attitude towards the guns. I don't know of anywhere else on Earth that guns are considered as a very first resort sort of solution to problems with other people. Canada only very rarely has school shootings, and it's considered to be a big deal if they do happen. And Europe has had some school shootings as well, they do happen other areas of the world just not as commonly. But you can see it even in the gangs that come to Canada from the us. Canadian gangs are very rarely used firearms, but American gangs are coming in through toronto, and they're bringing their American gun culture with them, and now more and more we're seeing criminals carrying guns in canada.
The second, is the overprescription of antidepressants. I've conceptualized antidepressants as emotional morphine. Whatever you are feeling gets the volume turned down. Now in the case of negative emotions like depression, that might be a good thing. But sometimes those emotions are things like discussed at the idea of going to shoot up your school. It's one of the same reasons that suicide rates are so much higher amongst people who are prescribed antidepressants, because the powerful emotion that would stop someone has been repressed by the drug.
In switzerland, every able-bodied man between certain ages has a military rifle at home in case they get conscripted into military service. So obviously just having guns around doesn't automatically cause these things, because Switzerland has a very low instance of gun crime.
If that were the case, then there wouldn't be any school shootings. You might be too young to remember, but I remember 2008 where a strong Democrat president was in charge, and in 2009 they ended up with a majority in the house and a supermajority in the Senate so they could end any filibuster.
That seems to be the case with both political parties, once they actually get power they're like a dog chasing a car who catches up to it and doesn't know what to do with it.
That seems to be the case with both political parties, once they actually get power they're like a dog chasing a car who catches up to it and doesn't know what to do with it.
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