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German philosopher Georg Friedrich Hegel long ago developed, among other things, what he called the principle of "thesis, antithesis, synthesis" to explain the process of deliberately enacted social disorder and change as a road to power. To achieve a desired result, one deliberately creates a situation ("thesis,") devises a "solution," to solve the "problems" created by that situation ("antithesis,") with the final result being the ultimate goal of more power and control ("synthesis.")
Example 1: (9-11, thesis) (Blame the Muslims to get the US to go to war, antithesis) (Ultimate goal to neutralize Israel's Semite brothers and homeland security in the US to take away our rights, synthesis)
Example 2: (create frequent heinous shootings to upset the populous, thesis) (proposed solution, disarm America, antithesis) (goal, no more Constitution and the people are defenseless against further injustices. Here come the guillotines, synthesis)
Messaging the Shooter: Which Is More to Blame for Gun Violence?
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Gun violence has many causes and contributing factors -- including evil people. Bob Garfield writes in Media Post about his views on gun control vs the media. Who deserves more blame for mass public shootings?
MEDIAPOST.COM reports:
MEDIAPOST.COM reports:
There must be a deeper, more sinister, more pernicious explanation. When a deranged kid, armed to the teeth, murders two classrooms full of children, it can’t simply be about Americans’ near universal access to unlimited quantities of firearms and ammunition. Something else must be making lunatics kill.
Here is Wayne LaPierre of the National Rifle Association, illuminating the real culprits in Sandy Hook and 2012's other mass shootings in Colorado, Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin, Florida, California, Oklahoma, Washington, Delaware, Texas and Oregon:
"And here's another dirty little truth that the media try their best to conceal: There exists in this country a callous, corrupt and corrupting shadow industry that sells, and sows, violence against its own people.
Through vicious, violent video games with names like Bulletstorm, Grand Theft Auto, Mortal Kombat and Splatterhouse. And here's one: it's called Kindergarten Killers. It's been online for 10 years. How come my research department could find it and all of yours either couldn't or didn't want anyone to know you had found it?
Then there's the blood-soaked slasher films like "American Psycho" and "Natural Born Killers" that are aired like propaganda loops on "Splatterdays" and every day, and a thousand music videos that portray life as a joke and murder as a way of life. And then they have the nerve to call it "entertainment."
But is that what it really is? Isn't fantasizing about killing people as a way to get your kicks really the filthiest form of pornography?
In a race to the bottom, media conglomerates compete with one another to shock, violate and offend every standard of civilized society by bringing an ever-more-toxic mix of reckless behavior and criminal cruelty into our homes — every minute of every day of every month of every year."
Read More: http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/1904...
Top Opinion
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judge 2013/01/07 22:38:00
It all begins with parents who don't know how to act proper. They set bad examples for their kids. They don't discipline their kids or teach them good morals.
It continues with public schools, where the same bad behavior patterns and bigotry gets passed on from each generation to the next, ensuring a constant supply of bad parents.
Only then is the media to blame for streaming all kinds of drama and hype and nonsense into these unenlightened minds.
The media likes to say it's just reporting... no it's sensat...
The media likes to say it's just reporting... no it's sensationalizing, it's glorifying murder and violence, it's throwing it out into the community saying.. WOW.. wait till you see what we have on our news tonight.. Think about all the teasers that news stations or crime shows use to get you to tune in... then ask yourself... who is responsible for increasing the level of crime in our country..When someone kills 3 people and is glorified in the media, some sick twisted person thinks.. I have to kill 5 or 10, and on it goes. I never knew a gun to actually kill someone all by itself. I can put a gun on a shelf and let it sit there for years.. no one will die.. UNTIL someone sick and twisted picks it up and does something with it. If not a gun, then a knife, or pipe, or bat, or car.. Over the thousands of years man has been on this earth man has been able to find incredibly ingenious ways to kill other people. It's just a shame that we have become so cavalier about it that we don't see how the media is perpetrating the glorification of horrendous acts. JMO
Actors who rarely have any concept of proper firearm etiquette are the ones portraying hero Gangstas and evil law enforcement types, in full Technicolor, for your viewing pleasure.
In the past 30 days we've had two people shoved in front of subway trains. The shovers have one thing in common with all the mass shooters:
THEY WERE ALL MENTALLY ILL!!!!
Can we please start institutionalizing again? Relying on the mentally ill to take their meds when marginally supervised is not working out too well.
Back to the topic at hand. Relying on the mentally ill to take their meds when marginally supervised is not working out too well.
If we compare the USA to similar western democracies in Europe (say Germany, UK, France, Sweden etc), we see that, while access to violent aspects of the media like movies, video games etc. is very similar in Europe, the gun violence is massively less.
So, if the violent media is seen as the 'control group', what is the variable?
Well, there could be a number of cultural variables of course but by far the most obvious difference, the one that stands out like a ham sandwich at a Bar Mitzvah is the easy access of guns.
Nazi Weapons Act of 1938 (Translated to English)
Classified guns for "sporting purposes".
All citizens who wished to purchase firearms had to register with the Nazi officials and have a background check.
Presumed German citizens were hostile and thereby exempted Nazis from the gun control law.
Gave Nazis unrestricted power to decide what kinds of firearms could, or could not be owned by private persons.
The types of ammunition that were legal were subject to control by bureaucrats.
Juveniles under 18 years could not buy firearms and ammunition.
Lyrics refrain : " all the other kids with the pumped up kicks better out run my gun , better outrun by bullet "
Poor misfits feeling sorry for themselves
LET THE BODIES HIT THE FLOOR
Then there is the Gangster rap
Take some willpower to listen to this
The Movies , Games , Music would be powerless if children had Strong nuclear families and some sort of Religious foundation and society support .
Adam Lanza's motive was to be remembered as a horrible, scary person; that's usually the drive for mass-murders like Sandy Hook. And guess what? He got what he wanted.
Maybe if the media didn't show so much respect towards the killer or give out his name, others wouldn't be inspired to do the same.
I've owned firearms since around 1958, and not a single one of them has ever decided to load themselves up or go out and murder anyone.
Idiots like Piers Morgan have convinced me that Network News Anchors and Reporters wouldn't recognize firearm logic or common sense if they jumped out from behind an AR-15 and slapped them all with a powder puff so hard it made them drop their sign.
Maybe the media is what makes people think "Hey, I can go get on TV, and go out in style!"
But it's not the media's fault that gun violence happens!
Nor is it the fault of an inanimate object!
If me having a gun could be the one thing that saves me from someone else with a gun, why the HELL would you want to take my gun? What makes you think I'd be willing to give up my gun, knowing that?!
What would "your" solution be to your silly scenarios? ...Wave the white flag and embrace being murdered or enslaved?
If everyone owned a gun out of fear of being attacked by someone with a gun (which is typically the primary argument used by pro-gun advocates to justify gun ownership) then everyone would continuously feel the need to get a better gun in order to have a better chance of survival. What do you think the bad guys would do in this scenario?
The solution is to systematically remove the means to perform mass violence. International survey data strongly supports this position. It's not about "waving the white flag," it's about keeping the violence potentially as low as possible.
Tanks: Bad guys can be seen coming from a mile away. Not a big problem. Explosives can take care of tanks, if you know what you're doing with them.
Sorry to say - the only answer to gun violence, is armed people, willing to stop people with guns. Taking guns in America is NOT possible.
The answer to gun violence is precisely what you claim is not possible, because it IS possible. Yes, it will take a lot of time, but if no more ammo was produced that would immediatly limit the value of any firearm, and if new civilian firearms were no longer produced guns would become a limited resource and eventually could be seized.
Violence to stop violence produces only one result: more violence.
However, the knowledge on how to make nuclear weapons is already out there, and nuclear weapons can be made again. Therefore, whoever has them, has power. Whoever doesn't have them, is at the mercy of whoever does - unless the people who have nuclear weapons agree not to use them, and agree to protect other people without them.
Same with guns. If someone was shooting at you, and you were unarmed, you would hope the armed police would get there as soon as possible to kill the person shooting at you. Police do not WANT to use their guns. Law abiding citizens do not WANT to use their guns. But crazy people, sometimes they just want to take as many people with them as possible when they kill themselves.
Violence - killing crazy people - to stop violence - crazy people committing mass murder - produces a stop of violence, until the next crazy person picks up a gun and decides to use it.
If you think getting an illegal gun is hard, or importing a gun is hard, or making a gun is hard, then you're an idiot. If you think it's possible to keep 100% of guns out of the hands of crazy people, you're an idiot.
If you think defending yourself, and your children, fro...
However, the knowledge on how to make nuclear weapons is already out there, and nuclear weapons can be made again. Therefore, whoever has them, has power. Whoever doesn't have them, is at the mercy of whoever does - unless the people who have nuclear weapons agree not to use them, and agree to protect other people without them.
Same with guns. If someone was shooting at you, and you were unarmed, you would hope the armed police would get there as soon as possible to kill the person shooting at you. Police do not WANT to use their guns. Law abiding citizens do not WANT to use their guns. But crazy people, sometimes they just want to take as many people with them as possible when they kill themselves.
Violence - killing crazy people - to stop violence - crazy people committing mass murder - produces a stop of violence, until the next crazy person picks up a gun and decides to use it.
If you think getting an illegal gun is hard, or importing a gun is hard, or making a gun is hard, then you're an idiot. If you think it's possible to keep 100% of guns out of the hands of crazy people, you're an idiot.
If you think defending yourself, and your children, from crazy people with guns, using words written on paper (laws), words written on signs (gun free zones), and using you good intentions - if you think that's going to work - then you're not only an idiot, you're an irresponsible parent and an idiot.