Q.
3 min readAug 5, 2019

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Hmmm.. although some of the cases in the past 5 years or so can be attributed to homophobia, biggotry, mysogony and white-supremacy…. the problem lies somewhere else, on a much deeper level…

The mass shootings are nothing new in the States, in a way, they have become an (unfortunate) running joke in other parts of the world ( “Be careful with your co-workers or they might go American on your ass” , “ No one will kill you for no reason here, this is not the states”.. etc) , and instead of dealing with the symptoms, the states should figure out what it is that makes so many people “flip” and start killing everyone around them. and the main reason lies deeper than the “ideologies” these people chose as their excuse for killing,

Point is, if it wasn’t for Racist theories, Incel idiots, homophobic or right-wing ideologies…. these individuals would have found another “philosophy” which would give them a justification for their crimes… ( don’t misunderstand, I am not defending these ideologies- and I do believe they should be fought, but I am saying that they provide an excuse for those who have already decided, or are on the way towards deciding, to go on a killing spree)

IF you look at all these characters, and their attacks they do share some similarities ( besides most of them being on anti-depressants, that is something to be looked into also) , one of them is the fact that just like the guy in EL paso, or the one in Dayton, just like the idiot in las vegas, or the one who killed 50 + people in a gay bar, they all prepared for their attack- meaning it wasn’t a spur of the moment thing- they decided, prepared, got their weapons ( another thing that should be fixed- easy acces to all sort of weaponry… HEll, I am from the Balkans, in the middle of a War it was more difficult to get automatic weapons here than it was in a store in Nevada.) , choose, sometimes even surveyed their targets well before they chose to act….

So.. what happened was that these idiots simply Wanted to Kill as many people as possible… their “manifestos” and “social outlooks” are nothing but justifications which they provide themselves, and the others, to avoid the act that their goal is killing- who/what/why comes secondary….

So, the main question, and the one which supersedes all of them is what is it that makes Americans ( mainly white and male) want to kill their fellow men. What is it that makes their minds switch to believing that ultimate violence is the only way for them to express their frustrations?? ? Why is spreading death more acceptable to a 21 year old than attempting to reach his goals ( whatever they may be, through different means)

Yes there is the gun control issue, and the racism, bigotry etc… but all of these issues exist in other parts of the world too- ( in a lot of them, these issues are much deeper and more divisive than in the states) , yet no other society has this many people deciding that a human life, theirs included, is worthless….

America should take a deep look inside itself and 6try to figure this out before it raises another generation of individuals in which,every now and then, one of them will snap and start killing

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