There are rage-filled, disturbed people in every country, but only this one has regular mass shootings in schools and other public places.

Incredibly easy. It's easier to buy a gun in this country than it is to sign up for a cell phone contract.

Did you see what happened in Scotland after all those kids got slaughtered with a pistol?

We are exceptional in one case, that’s for sure.

Nobody else has an NRA

on Thursday morning. Mentioned how there are almost no women involved in pulling the trigger.

Organize. Help others. Whatever.

Act to 'fix' whatever they perceive to be wrong


Unless of course it's just that uniquely American White Male Privilege Rage

Anger is everywhere and it's cheap. Fixing it costs money.

Buying a gun is faster, easier, and feels like you are "getting something done." Waiting for the good that comes from benevolent work is difficult, and in some cases, is never seen, at least not immediately.

a top priority. But as long as guns are quickly and easily available, and easier and faster than doing the work associated with counseling, I'm afraid guns will be the first outlet for rage among many people.

to seek help and counseling. If and when they do, they're often real messes who've hurt themselves and others, as one expert put it. There's still so much stigma, it's 'unmanly', 'weak' to need or seek outside help and support.

Finding resources is not so easy or affordable as MH counseling/care becomes more and more inaccessible in the US.
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GUNS are way too available here, a 'Sport/Hobby' that's ballooned & turned deadly in the last 20 years. It's killing us & has to end.

Before the 2000s, I never saw anything like this GUN WORSHIP and VIOLENCE. Men in our family had arms and guns for hunting, were in the military, artillery spec., also in LE. They collected a bit and discussed with each other who had what I guess. But it was no big deal, and nobody fetishized guns or threatened anyone like today, ever.

lot of room to be themselves. Capitalism makes them both the top and the most disposable of workers. Society doesn't let them show emotion, and then wonders why it all comes exploding out. It's too bad that feminism is seen as an anti-man movement, since a lot of the things mainstream feminism works for helps men too, in the end.

It also appears in those who end up as radicalized Muslims. Many of those who join are from relatively well off families.

consider that of black men and Latino American and and Asian American and Native American men who have real reason to be enraged—not to mention black women and Latina American women and Asian American women and Native American women and WHITE WOMEN.


What is it with these shooters? Is it that in their imaginings the playing field is somehow leveled and their privileges are curtailed and they can't handle it while other men and women have had to handle it for centuries.

I don't know. It's complicated but why are 95% of these shooters white men?

And don't get me wrong, I'm not indicting all white men, especially progressive white men, just the small percentage of these men who become shooters.

It is as you stated. They feel that their place in the hierarchy is being threatened, specifically threatened by minorities, uppity women, & gays. "Their place" includes a level of respect that they believe they deserve, no matter what, & a level of economic security that many of them no longer have.

I don't know either - but isolating and dealing with our rage problem could be the key to dealing with these monsters and could prevent a lot of future tragedies.

Rage + no firearm = internet troll.

It can be a valid feeling. Anger, even extreme anger is a very ordinary, common response people have when they believe that they have been treated unfairly. A fantasy about killing the guy who fired them, the banker who denied a loan, or bullies at school does not even necessarily reflect a psychiatric illness. It's clearly unhealthy, but does not necessarily reflect a diagnosis of a mental illness. Particularly in a culture that embraces vengeance. If it is difficult to act on their fleeting fantasies, they are less likely to. Along with ready acceptance of vengeance wink wink "reasonable fear" as a reason to kill people, the larger problem is easy access to what can make the fantasy come true quickly and with little physical effort.
Whatever happened to waiting periods? Why not waiting periods, mandatory training and thorough background checks required by federal law? Why not conferring some legal penalties for irresponsible gun handling. For example, giving a teenager who has not met background check and training requirements. Maybe some of these people who are irresponsible that their toddlers get a hold of their guns should be prosecuted?

I can only question and speculate, but I really think an explicit goal of making it more difficult to kill oneself or other people should be a consideration.

Rage is certainly a contributing factor, but it is not exclusively limited to you any one group. How it manifests itself is notably different. I noted some very angry people back in the 1980's at Union Meetings, they too didn't know who they were necessarily angry with at the time, but they knew that they were angry. I believe then and now that this is a direct result of the economics of wealth inequality in this country. Fox news and Right Wing Radio are tools of the divide and conquer schemes of the Right. If the races are busy accusing each other of being the bad guy or the sexes are doing the same, then the wealthy laugh all the way to the bank.

Thanks for the link.