This is not hard. The shooter. However, to affix blame is not thereby to address the problem. Man's imperfection is a given, how we manage and restrain it is dealt with in law and custom.
Presuming the question is about the merits - or lack of same - about gun control, we accept, with any right, the potentiality that it may conduce to evil as much as it may conduce to good. The method by which a right is exercised is less consequential then the social context and intellectual suppositions in which it is exercised.
The real issue with the Second Amendment is that rights are viewed by Americans in absolutist terms. As Burke pointed out, such "natural rights" do exist, but "their abstract perfection is their practical defect." Such rights are applied with too little regard to the cultural context in which they exist.
There is much to suggest that the culture is incapable of prudently and sensibly managing the rights it abstractly attributes to itself. Alexander Hamilton made the point that if you have a Bill of Rights you extend to the government the authority to regulate those rights.
Indeed, the regulation of those rights is actually routine. Free speech is limited by slander, perjury, defamation and copyright laws, among others. Freedom of religion is allowed consistent with public order - if a religion calls for human sacrifice, it is prohibited. There are other examples and the list is long.
However, in the matter of the right to bear arms, in part, guns are woven into the culture in various ways. An emphasis on self-defense - particularly in urban areas where crime tends to be high - rural areas where hunting is an important sport, gun collectors and gun clubs, and, as you noted, an ethic rooted in America's libertarian traditions of resistance to tyranny. (Though the notion that the government is a threat to liberty at this interregnum in the nation's life is patently absurd. So supine is the government that it cannot even balance its budget lest it ask the public to pay for what they buy.)
The segment of the population that tends toward absolutism on the Second Amendment is actually quite small, but is extremely intense. Whereas those who take a more nuanced view of gun rights tend to be less intense and more ambivalent. It is not generally their top priority and so the country tends, on the whole, to give both culturally and legally a wide scope to gun rights.
However, it is not at all clear that the culture, as it devolves into a populist tone and an abstract libertarianism with an emphasis on individualism at the expense of community standards, that the society can handle responsibly the rights it has accrued to itself. Including gun rights.
Burke said "men have no right to that which is not reasonable," and rights must be defined through the prism of the context in which they are exercised. What the nation has in the Second Amendment is a right that presupposes an ethic of community standards that are at this moment in the nation's life, at best, fraying. In short, that presupposition needs to be re-examined and, pace Hamilton, the right needs to be regulated in the light of such a re-examination.
In short, what matters is not the method, but the ethical and social context in which rights are defined and exercised. Americans are, in this time in history, inclined to view freedom as an end in itself and not a means to an end and thus rights are defined in absolutist terms.
Guns and shooters ever shall their be. It is how we manage that reality that opens the gun control debate. The larger question being is freedom an end in itself, or a means to the pursuit of virtue. We then limit freedom by the dictates of prudence and not based on who pulled the trigger.
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There is a lot of people at fault here. The parents could be at fault for bad parenting, bad environment (like fighting with their partners, drinking alcohol, constantly yelling), child neglect, child abuse, etc. Just depends on the situation. How is the person's environment at school? Is he/she a loner? Does he/she get bullied? Does he/she not talk much? Is he/she always being bombarded with work and more? Etc. How about the shooters mental health? Does he/she have anger problems? Does he/she have anti social problems? Does he/she struggle with depression? Does he/she show lack of interest or motivation in doing things? Is he/she a sociopath/psychopath? Etc. Now, how did the person get a hold of the gun? Parents? Family memebers? A friend? Maybe even a stranger? Security, How tight is security there? How many people are on security? Are the security guards armed? Metal detectors? Security cameras? Etc.
I blame the teachers who did nothing to stop the behavior before the student got desperate (same in suicide cases). My brother was bullied at school. Shoved down a staircase, could have easily broken his back or neck. Teacher & principle's worthless response > boys will be boys.
I blame the bullies’ parents for raising animals instead of decent human beings (no discipline, no enforced consequences to actions, etc) & who bitch to the principle or school board about “meanie” teachers trying to control these little beasts while attempting to teach everyone else.
I blame a lack of education on mental health. Particularly in schools/among staff. The general knowledge of mental health issues & the signs available to the public is more or less useless. Unless someone has a relative or friend with an issue average joe & jane don’t know, don’t understand & they can’t really help.
I blame the parents of the bullied for not caring enough. Either they are working hard jobs and don’t have the time to realize little Bobby is acting weird. Or they’re of that “suck-it-up-buttercup” / “why are you so weak” mentality some parents (bullies in themselves) have.
I blame the ignorance about guns. If you keep a gun it’s not supposed to be stored loaded & generally if you review the actual laws (may change per state) ammo is not supposed to be readily accessible. Yet many people do just that & they make it incredibly easy for people to kill themselves or others.
Last I blame the shooter. Unless he is a psychopath he's more often than not a kid who was pushed to the edge. Same as what happens when employees who are fired go back to their former work place & shoot it up.
It's more complicated than any of the options. Typically, everyone involved could've done something to prevent it. Bullying is usually the problem but most bullying stems from being uneducated or teenage ignorance and most will grow out of it. That could be stopped by educating others and having teachers/parents/other students watch out for others and know the signs of someone who is possibly going to hurt themselves or others. The shooter is often bullied or suffering from a mental illness, which while it does not justify them hurting others, gives a reason and it can usually be stopped by going to therapy or talking to someone trusted. The gun debate is very controversial but I personally think banning certain guns would help. Guns that can mow down twelve kids in one flick of the arms obviously aren't safe and are usually the gun used, if we banned guns like that it would be easier to prevent deaths and escape unharmed. Other countries that have banned certain or all guns have low rates for school shootings such as Australia, they haven't had a school shooting since the 80s while America has them practically every week. I won't use England because they have a knifing problem (though, to be fair, it's easier to run away from a knife than a gun). It's a complicated thing that cannot be answered with three options. Thank for reading my PSA.
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I'm thinking most of the people who were shooters were disgruntled in some way, by bullying or other. But with poor mental health care I'm pretty sure it is not guns that are the problem.
C and we should go with licensing as a standard. Every state that has gun licenses have reduced homicides overall. You sit on thinking about killing a person for 3 weeks, you end up not following though. That is fundamental the point.
So when people say common sense gun laws, that is the intended example.
Also also. The gun industry should be limiting themselves. That is how you don't get government up your ass. That is how the mpaa for movies and esrb for video games have control of there own industry responsibility. Using the altered second amendment from 2008, by the supreme court, you are open to every opinion in America.The shooter made the decision to go in and shoot everyone, so clearly it's the shooter's fault.
Granted, there are a ton of things that lead to that decision that brought the individual to that point and that's absolutely something that should be considered. However, everyone is personally responsible for their own decisions, that doesn't change if you pick up a weapon of any kind or any object to cause someone harm. You choose to do that!
I don't know what gets someone really to a point where they choose to inflict harm on others, but the point is that no matter how you do it, it's your choice. Words, fists, guns, knives, pencils, freaking water are all things that you could use to hurt someone and no matter what you choose it doesn't take away your guilt or your free will.I blame our mental health system. I put much of the blame on society because of how little we take men's mental health seriously.
Almost every mass shooter happens to be male. Young men are told from day 1 both directly and indirectly that we are disposable and that our purpose is to protect women and children and that they take priority over our well-being. Their emotions are invalidated regularly and the only acceptable emotions for men to show are anger or lust. We spend our entire lives bottling up things because we dont want to be a burden on anyone else and because we know many times, we'll just get told to 'man up'. They bottle everything up inside until eventually they explode violently.- u
A B and C because:
A - He couldn't commit the crime without the gun
B - While it's sad and true people get bullied the bullies shouldn't get murdered
C - Weak mental fortitude and poor impulse control I am not American so I can't really tell. I'd say though that I would blame all three of them. However their are no shootings without guns so I would blame them the most. You can blame mentally ill people but a certaint percentage of them will always exist.
I blame nihilistic twisted ideas like postmodernism that have infiltrated and ruined our society.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knOwcZ0y5IEThe people or person that did the shooting.
Is there someone or something else that you could possibly blame?
What the fuck is wrong with all of you?
YOU ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING IN YOUR LIFE. EVERYTHING!!!
NO EXCUSES, NO BLAMING, OR CRYING LIKE LITTLE FUCKING BITCHES.
THESE DAYS GIRLS HAVE BIGGER BALLS THAN SOME OF YOU.
OWN YOUR LIFE AND STOP PUTTING EVERYTHING ON ANYTHING AND ANYONE BUT YOU.
MEN FUCKING UP!I blame the environment that allowed that to happen. Bullying and lack of mental health education. Also they must be in any building metal detectors. When I visited egypt any place you go there (church, mall, uni) you must pass through a metal detector
Ultimately its the shooters fault. I mean if you get treated poorly, you have the option to ignore it, or tell someone about it. Or handle it in a multitude of ways, the most extreme of which shooting up people that probably have nothing to do with it.
American society extremely lonely, xenophobic, and violent. Until we figure out why, we will see these incidents more and more, every single year.
Not guns, obviously, but I can't say it's always the last one either. In a hypothetical scenario where someone gets bullied too much, and decides to murder his bullies, I can kinda understand and justify that. Bullying is literally the father of crime, it should never be ignored, and the only effective way to deal with bullying is to fuck back harder (ideally not with guns, but hey). But if someone starts killing random people because of some third party that did them harm, then it's their fault
The shooter, obviously. Mass killing is more than possible without guns. Most mass killers just aren't very inventive, but bombs and vehicles work just fine. That guy in France took out 72 people in less than 60 seconds using a semi-truck. That's faster than any gun could ever hope to accomplish.
I blame the instigators more so than the shooter IF the shooter is SANE to begin with
There are slot of ass hats in this world who love looking for trouble & it's all fun & games when messing with easy targets but eventually when the wrong person is provoked then that's when bullets start flying & Innocents start dropping like flies
It's common in urban environments for these types of "revenge" shootings to take placeMass shooters fucking rock. Even if I get shot by one, I wish him nothing but success with his great work.
If they would only target the people that screwed them over repeatedly then I would blame the people that screwed them over.
But when they shoot random people that didn't do anything to them, then I blame the shooter.I blame the people who put the murder through this, and the murder him/her self
Especially his parents and the school board for taking abuse seriouslyThe number of peoples that votes it was the "shooters" faults explains perfectly why there is mass shooters
When somebody gets drunk and drives a car into a school child who do you blame
The person who did it. AND the people who noticed the signs with that individual but never spoke up. AND the people who chose not to have armed security at the venue.
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