School Shootings

[rascal]

I would almost be willing to guarantee the shooter was on some kind of psychotropic drug, tbh.

This is a problem, pumping up kids with perscription drugs as the solution to behavior problems. 40 years ago the kid would just get a good beating and told to behave with no medical term dropped on him and persription drugs.

[rascal]

Interesting map. Not near as many in heartland red states.

Less population in those states.

[rascal]

Interesting how these shootings happen a lot in the Left Coast. I thought gun control was strict over there. Don't most of these shootings happen on the West Coast and Northeast? Some of the most liberal places in America yet still happens.

It is easy to get guns in any state. gun laws are weak throughout the entire country.

[rascal]

Beating your kids is not a solution.

It sure worked for generations. Pampered spoiled kids growing up to feel en led is what you get too often if you are afraid to discipline your kids early in life with a good old fashioned ass whipping .

[JoeTait75]

Wow Texas with only 1 high school shooting. Pretty good considering the population (looking at Cali, Florida and east of the Mississippi). The shooting in Houston shouldn't have been recorded tbh. With all the people who own guns in Texas you would think there would be more, but.........interesting.

Or maybe the fact that there are a lot of people in Texas with guns serves as a deterrant. I mean, you have to know that if you walk into a public area in Texas and start shooting there's a reasonable chance someone is going to start shooting back.

[Blake]

It sure worked for generations. Pampered spoiled kids growing up to feel en led is what you get too often if you are afraid to discipline your kids early in life with a good old fashioned ass whipping .

Or you could just not spoil your kids instead of beat them.

[Blake]

Or maybe the fact that there are a lot of people in Texas with guns serves as a deterrant. I mean, you have to know that if you walk into a public area in Texas and start shooting there's a reasonable chance someone is going to start shooting back.

you know those are school shootings, right?

[cantthinkofanything]

Video games and devil music

[Dick Jones]

Or maybe the fact that there are a lot of people in Texas with guns serves as a deterrant. I mean, you have to know that if you walk into a public area in Texas and start shooting there's a reasonable chance someone is going to start shooting back.

you know those are school shootings, right?

[Dick Jones]

It sure worked for generations. Pampered spoiled kids growing up to feel en led is what you get too often if you are afraid to discipline your kids early in life with a good old fashioned ass whipping .

there's a huge difference between beating kids and spanking them. The fact that we've gotten so extreme in our coddling of children is definitely part of this epidemic.

[JoeTait75]

you know those are school shootings, right?

You're right, my brain took that post off. I was thinking of shootings in malls and the like.

[Trill Clinton]

spanking children with mental illnesses is counter productive.

[Chomag]

Bad parenting and TV and internet baby sitters.
Parents are not allowed to spank their kids when they are disrespectful or bad anymore because the government will take them away from them IMHO.
I guarantee you if I even uttered that I was going to go postal when I was a kid, I got a beating.
And I was taught to respect my elders regardless of race, gender, or religion.
For me, this has carried over to the internet as well, but a great many kids do not respect anyone, especially on the internet where they can HIDE behind their computers.
Many of these juvenile delinquents have grown up and are now raising their own batch of juvenile delinquents.
Just look at the trolls on this site for all the proof you need.

Gotta agree with this. I got a beating whenever I dared to talk back. Now kids don't seem to give a rats ass about anything other then themselves.

[leemajors]

It sure worked for generations. Pampered spoiled kids growing up to feel en led is what you get too often if you are afraid to discipline your kids early in life with a good old fashioned ass whipping .

Yeah, there's not a long list of serial killers that were beaten mercilessly as children.

[JoeTait75]

These days you have a lot of one-parent households with no father in the home. You have two-parent households in which both parents are working and too worn out to get after their kids. You have a lot of people having kids when they're older and don't have the physical vigor to get after their kids like younger parents would.

It isn't necessarily about physically hitting your kids, either; it's more about structure, rules and consequences in general. Kids need boundaries and they need to know exactly what those boundaries are. It's tougher to establish those boundaries these days for a lot of reasons.

[ohmwrecker]

Did you guys solve this yet?

[Dick Jones]

It isn't necessarily about physically hitting your kids, either; it's more about structure, rules and consequences in general. Kids need boundaries and they need to know exactly what those boundaries are. It's tougher to establish those boundaries these days for a lot of reasons.

I agree. If you can discipline your children properly and consistently without any kind of physical punishment, fine. But thinking it's okay to let your kids have hissy fits and meltdowns in public with no consequences, or trying "reason" with the child, or just saying "stop" 100 times while the little keeps melting down, is the type of overcoddling bull we see far too often. A kids needs to know to act right, and that if he doesn't he's going to face consequences. Spanking may be the easy way out, but it's far better than no discipline at all.

[TheSanityAnnex]

That's the definition of arrogant.

Let's look at your question again

How do these kids get the guns

Stupid. ing. Question.

Neh, I'll pass. It'll end up being a gun control thread again and when i eventually point will point out the flaws in your logic, you'll get arrogantly ass hurt per par. Same ol same ol.

These last few shootings have happened in states with some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, gun control obviously isn't the answer, your logic is flawed. As you can see no one else is trying to turn this into a gun control thread and people are actually trying to get at the root of the problem.

[leemajors]

These days you have a lot of one-parent households with no father in the home. You have two-parent households in which both parents are working and too worn out to get after their kids. You have a lot of people having kids when they're older and don't have the physical vigor to get after their kids like younger parents would.

It isn't necessarily about physically hitting your kids, either; it's more about structure, rules and consequences in general. Kids need boundaries and they need to know exactly what those boundaries are. It's tougher to establish those boundaries these days for a lot of reasons.

My daughter is very well behaved, I've never felt the need to lay a hand on her. I've been divorced for 7 years now too.

[TheSanityAnnex]

My daughter is very well behaved, I've never felt the need to lay a hand on her. I've been divorced for 7 years now too.

Sounds like your daughter respects you. Too many kids these days aren't like that.


80 years ago the majority of teenage boys had their own shotguns or .22 rifles, why weren't they shooting up their schools?

[Blake]

Let's look at your question again



Stupid. ing. Question.

Yeah, still arrogant.

These last few shootings have happened in states with some of the strictest gun control laws in the country, gun control obviously isn't the answer, your logic is flawed. As you can see no one else is trying to turn this into a gun control thread and people are actually trying to get at the root of the problem.

where did I say gun control was the answer to school shootings? I'm just predicting the sidebar our discussion would lead to.

[Blake]

Sounds like your daughter respects you. Too many kids these days aren't like that.


80 years ago the majority of teenage boys had their own shotguns or .22 rifles, why weren't they shooting up their schools?

majority? Where are you getting that from?

How many teenage boys even went to school in 1934?

[TheSanityAnnex]

Yeah, still arrogant.

Doesn't change the fact you asked a stupid ing question.

"where do these kids get guns"

That is like asking where to buy food.

[cantthinkofanything]

LOL at Peckerhead Blake being taken to task over his idiocy.

[TheSanityAnnex]

majority? Where are you getting that from?

How many teenage boys even went to school in 1934?

First hand experience of course.