Mass shootings are horrible. It’s ridiculous that I even have to make that point, but such is the nature of the world that we live in where so many on the political left think that you support mass shootings because you support gun rights. But here we are, so, let me repeat: Mass shootings are horrible, and we don’t want them to ever happen.
Now, that we’ve settled that issue (hopefully), the real questions, the ones that we should be discussing, come up, and those questions are what are the causes of mass shootings and how do we stop them?
If we actually start looking into those questions (without defaulting to blaming guns for the crimes), then, we can actually get someplace to save some lives.
When you ask questions like that, though, you sometimes come up with some answers that make some people uncomfortable. Why? Because the answers begin to skewer some of the sacred cows of our culture. And one commentator has a viewpoint on what is driving mass shootings that you’re not likely to hear discussed in the legacy mainstream media. Jeffrey A. Tucker writes,
Among the related factors, as Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has been pointing out in public lately, is the odd relationship between school shootings and the wide distribution of these drugs. Many cases we know about already, but the medical records of others are being withheld, even though the public is more and more understanding that the real problem is not guns but pharmacological products. And yet the activists themselves are entirely focused on taking away guns rather than looking more deeply.
That’s a microphone drop kind of statement. Saying that kind of thing out loud in a group is likely to shock people into complete silence because so many people have been conditioned to simply accept that giving pharmaceuticals to everyone, even young children, is a good idea.
Now, I’m not a doctor or pharmacist. But you don’t need to be either of those to see statistical correlations which can indicate causation.
And if we are going to, as a society, stop pretending that we care about saving kids’ lives and, instead, actually work to save kids’ lives, then, we need to look into things like this (and other things) so that we can get to the real root of the problem.