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While training at the gym on Wednesday, I saw a news story on one of the TV monitors dealing with the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting, which had the following headline:
“Community searching for answers after shooting of praying children”
A Wall Street Journal article on the story was penned the same day by their editorial board, part of which took a stab at an answer for the Minneapolis community: “More aggressive identification and forced treatment, if need be, of the mentally ill. Most school shooters have been disturbed young men who also shouldn’t have access to firearms. The mental-health lobby and gun-rights advocates may protest, but a society serious about protecting its most vulnerable needs to have this debate.”
With all due respect to the WSJ editors and those like them who put forth the same two answers (mental health treatment and gun restrictions) when atrocities like this occur, they lack the recognition of the real issue and depth needed to make a meaningful change in our culture.
Let’s start with the last recommendation first: more gun restrictions. Of course, we need to act prudently and do what’s necessary to keep weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, but history has shown that to be fairly impotent where stopping murder and crime are concerned.
The FBI’s crime data repeatedly shows that the majority of gun crime occurs in urban cities with the strictest gun control laws on the books. Moreover, while many decry firearms like the AR-15, the FBI’s historical homicide statistics show that year after year, over two to three times the number of people are murdered each year via a beating (unarmed or armed with a blunt object) than those killed with all rifles, of which the AR-15 is just one.
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“Community searching for answers after shooting of praying children”
A Wall Street Journal article on the story was penned the same day by their editorial board, part of which took a stab at an answer for the Minneapolis community: “More aggressive identification and forced treatment, if need be, of the mentally ill. Most school shooters have been disturbed young men who also shouldn’t have access to firearms. The mental-health lobby and gun-rights advocates may protest, but a society serious about protecting its most vulnerable needs to have this debate.”
With all due respect to the WSJ editors and those like them who put forth the same two answers (mental health treatment and gun restrictions) when atrocities like this occur, they lack the recognition of the real issue and depth needed to make a meaningful change in our culture.
Let’s start with the last recommendation first: more gun restrictions. Of course, we need to act prudently and do what’s necessary to keep weapons out of the hands of dangerous people, but history has shown that to be fairly impotent where stopping murder and crime are concerned.
The FBI’s crime data repeatedly shows that the majority of gun crime occurs in urban cities with the strictest gun control laws on the books. Moreover, while many decry firearms like the AR-15, the FBI’s historical homicide statistics show that year after year, over two to three times the number of people are murdered each year via a beating (unarmed or armed with a blunt object) than those killed with all rifles, of which the AR-15 is just one.
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An answer to why the Minneapolis Catholic school shooting happened
I believe there s a deeper issue that the media and others often overlook when it comes to tragedies like this
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