idk, when i look at him, and hear his speech, either he is really, really dumb and is parroting everything people tell him to say

or he is a sociopath who is enjoying this whole shit

the thing with California types is they're easily deluded by their own importance

everything is a cause

he is stupid though, gun control is a retarded thing to make your single voting issue, which is what he said in his speech

California and NY have stricter gun laws than Canada. Their problem is deeper, and involve psychiatric drugs and the psychology of the young male population

yeah, being an "activist" is a fast and easy way to get recognition, makes people feel like they are more important than they really are.

@obrallaghan
Look, the fact that this happens so often on USA and not everywhere else shows that the problem is not exactly guns

and instead of trying to find out what's causing the problem

they want to ban the object the person used to commit the crime

it happens in other parts of the world. South America has the worst gun violence metrics in the world

I'm talking about mass shootings

and I hate to point this out, but if you look at the white population of the US they are in line with everyone else

not gun violence

I think the whole thing is just underhandedly racist in that it fails to address the issue

wtf are you talking about?

there's more deaths from black on black violence from guns than school shootings, but we fixate on school shootings because it's mostly white people doing them

dude

i'm talking about mass shootings

I know, but Hogg is talking about all of gun violence

i don't care about this race stuff

that whole event was about gun violence generally in the US

not just school shootings

this is useless for the point i was trying to make

i think the problem is alienation and things along along those lines, then someone did a shooting and the media highlighted them for weeks, and kept doing it over and over. Now the same kinds of people are thinking "hey that looks like a good way to make a statement and get back at everyone who i hate". the media romanticized it, and it became common. And now it's considered a "gun problem"

I'm not 100% but I believe nearly all youth mass shooters in the last couple decades have either been on psyciatric medication or prescribed them

i wouldn't be surprised

i'm sure that has something to do with it

I told my best friend that I don't believe he should have the right to own his guns because he is on pills

he shouldn't tbh

@Deleted User
it probably does

and that's what i was saying before.

When they start to blame guns for it, they lose the opportunity to find out or at least even talk about what might be causing it

It’s because they, as in the politicians who support these kids, don’t actually care

They just see them as more votes.

I believe there are two separate issues facing youth populations that may in the end be related, but they are unique to class and race. I think it overwhelmingly has to do with a lack of father figure and/or sense of belonging

agreed

i guess it's more complicated than that

lack of family structure and community

in the most general sense I believe it is a masculinity issue

then we can look at mass shooters vs "street violence"

kids arent mature enough to navigate life on there own