03 October, 2015

Every time you hear about a shooting, simply replace the (agenda-motivated) gun reference with "killing" or "murder" because the DEVICE USED isn't (or shouldn't) be the POINT. Whether some dude killed two people on-air with a gun, a laser, or a claymore isn't at issue; the point is that some dude killed two people out of a twisted sense of victimization. The point isn't that some guy in Oregon killed 13 people with a GUN, it's that he killed 13 people and wounded many others out of a narcissistic sense of aggrievement. Our society is seeming to produce a prodigious number of narcissistic, practically solipsistic, nihilistic, violence-addicted (mostly men), who have a sociopathic lack of empathy for their fellow humans. One might comment on the atomisation of culture that's allowed that badly-damaged human to develop, despite our "enlightened" culture of compulsive, aggressive promotion of self-worth.

But no, we're focusing on the tools they happen to use.
If people are burning down houses all over town, do we give a crap that they're doing it with gasoline vs. kerosene?
If someone's chopping down all the forests, do we care that they're using a chainsaw or an ax?

Maybe we should focus on what matters?

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