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Ryan Lambert's avatar

Proposals 1, 2, and 3 are band-aids, they can't and won't ever solve the problem but may provide short term benefits. They won't solve the problems but will make people feel like they tried. They are also exponentially easier to implement that Proposals 4, 5, and 6.

Proposals 4, 5, and 6 are potential cures to the school shooting problem and myriad more. However, they require significant changes to society that will require a tremendous effort to effect. Its a herculean task to reverse the course of seventy years of social inertia.

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Implementing all 6 of your suggestions would mitigate most of the mayhem these monsters cause. I especially like you pointing out that never are these acts committed against military, police, gun stores, gun ranges or anywhere people are likely to be armed. Study after study has shown that states/cities/towns that have conceal carry laws are generally less likely to have matching or greater murder statistics than those that do not. Chicago, California, Baltimore, Philadelphia? Ha! Their gangs don't care whether guns are illegal or not, and neither does any other homicide-intentioned person.

Restricting access to anyone under the age of 18 to social media like Twitter, TikTok, Snap Chat, Instagram, etc. would at least forestall vulnerable and mentally unstable people from the influence of these cesspools. The pre-frontal cortex of males, even at the age of 18, is not fully formed, but at least they could only immerse themselves in 6 years of influence instead of 16 or more.

I don't engage with any of those social media sites, with the exception of You Tube, whose algorithm has determined I only like conservative content, which is basically all I get. Fine with me. But once in awhile I find a channel that sparks my attention. One of these is Odin's Men, featuring J.T., who looks to be in his late 50's, commenting on stuff posted in the TikTok gutter. He's conservative, but fairly gentle in his comments, considering the utter buffoonery, degraded behavior, horrible purposeful destruction of human bodies, and graphic depictions of the horror of the human condition at its lowest. This is the lowest common denominator in the depths of hell, folks. Not kidding. Like lifting up a rock and finding a bizarre hideous creature underneath - scary but you can't look away. Children and juveniles seeing this stuff can't help but have their souls stripped of everything that might still be human.

Good article, John. I linked it over at billwhittle.com for my fellow members there to read.

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