This shit with the latest school shooting is pissing me off.
After everything spree shooting there's talk about gun control.
This time however the right is taking the moral high ground and claiming that's it's just wrong to bring it up so soon. While I can understand where they're coming from, I call bullshit.
If the perpetrator was brown these same people would be up in arms over border control.
So no. You don't get to play the moral high ground card here.
What has changed in the last forty - fifty years to turn us into a society that allows this to happen?
Yes, what cultural philosophies took root in the sixties that could have led to this? /s
The counterculture types of the sixties were weird, but they were still at heart a product of their upbringing. They consciously rejected a lot of the stuffy discipline imposed on them by their parents, but had enough moral foundation that the peace and love commune thing kinda worked. Things fell apart, I think, when that generation (including the ones outside hippie culture but were strongly sympathetic) had children of their own; the movement was not well-equipped to raise kids with much sense of self-control or responsibility.
Explain please what new form of gun control would have stopped this shooting?
What we have here is a societal problem far more complicated than a single issue. What has changed in the last forty - fifty years to turn us into a society that allows this to happen? Guns have always been there ... it's people who have changed ... I call BS on those who think there is a simple solution that will solve this.