Mass Shootings - Blame It On The Books!

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Re: Mass Shootings - Blame It On The Books!

Postby panamint_patty » Fri Aug 02, 2019 6:47 am

Maybe it was the books! If these shooters were staying up late because they were obsessed with whatever books they were into, it could be that they were losing sleep. Sleep deprivation can take a toll on both the short term and the long term. Short term effects include drowsiness, irritability, difficulty concentrating, etc. Long term effects include increased irritability, mental illness, work issues, and other severe problems. If this analysis of the situation is correct, then books which people become obsessed about should be banned. Although my comment is tongue-in-cheek to some extent, I'm dead serious (pun intended) about sleep deprivation as a factor leading to extreme anti-social behavior.
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Re: Mass Shootings - Blame It On The Books!

Postby cactuspete » Fri Aug 02, 2019 2:12 pm

panamint_patty: Good point about sleep deprivation. Video games could have the same effect. In other words, video games are harmful not because of their violent content, but because people become so obsessed over them that they lose sleep. Long term sleep deprivation has very negative effects. For some it could put them in a mental state where they become increasingly negative, possibly to the point where they eventually engage in extremely anti-social behavior. In statistically rare cases, mass shootings could be the outcome. Although statistically rare, people die and one death due to this sort of thing is one too many!
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Re: Mass Shootings - Blame It On The Books!

Postby recluse » Sat Aug 03, 2019 8:11 pm

El Paso shooting leaves 20 dead, 26 injured; investigators probing potential 'nexus to hate crime'
This shooter is said to be white or at least partially white and so far no info on what kinds of books he reads or what kind of video games he plays or whether or not he suffered from sleep deprivation or PTSD or whatever other issue someone might deem to be somehow relevant. There was a claim that he posted to 8chan, but that's an anonymous message board and so it would seem that such a claim might be a little premature without a little computer forensics work being done first.
The suspected gunman has not been publicly named, but two law enforcement officials identified him to The Associated Press as 21-year-old Patrick Crusius of Allen, Texas. It was unclear what connection the suspect had to El Paso.

https://www.foxnews.com/us/el-paso-walmart-shooting-20-dead-26-injured-gov-greg-abbott-police-chief-greg-allen
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Re: Mass Shootings - Blame It On The Books!

Postby CrustyOldFart » Sat Aug 03, 2019 8:53 pm

There was an article listing fifteen mass shootings for this current year and I noticed that less than half of them were committed by white guys. If whites make up a bit more than half of the population of the USA, then it would be normal for white guys to commit a little more than half of the mass shootings, but that's not the case. Whites actually commit less than their "share" of mass shootings. That's not what the corporate news media says though. Not sure why they just don't report the facts.... unless they have some kind of an agenda....
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Re: Mass Shootings - Blame It On The Books!

Postby surfsteve » Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:10 am

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Re: Mass Shootings - Blame It On The Books!

Postby surfsteve » Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:12 am

Here's the manifesto he left behind.

Shooter Suspect Patrick Crusius 'Manifesto'
Titled 'The Inconvenient Truth'
https://rense.com//general96/shooter-su ... ifesto.php

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Re: Mass Shootings - Blame It On The DEMOCTATS!

Postby surfsteve » Sun Aug 04, 2019 7:23 am

There has been a second shooting in Ohio just a few minutes ago.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_ ... o+shooting

It seems very odd that these mass shooting occur now, a few days after the democrats got their asses kicked at the Muller hearing.

Judging on how disgusting the democrats behaved I wouldn't be surprised at all to find out that they were behind both shootings in order to make Trump look bad. Nothing else makes sense when you think about it!
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Re: Mass Shootings - Blame It On The Books!

Postby surfsteve » Sun Aug 04, 2019 10:50 am

Nine dead in Dayton, Ohio in second mass shooting in 24 hours
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Re: Mass Shootings - Blame It On The Books!

Postby desertrat » Mon Aug 05, 2019 7:54 am

FBI asks for public's help after deadly massacres
The warning signs might be there, but the warning signs are so non-specific as to be entirely useless. Monday morning quarterbacking at it's worst is displayed in this pathetic news clip. Here are the supposed warning signs listed:
ABCNEWS wrote:1) Making angry or racist statements
2) Referring to past attackers
3) Using suicidal language
4) Subtle change in work performance
5) Someone who is bullied or isolated
6) An interest in fire arms
7) May make posts relevant to the above on social media

The problem here is that 95% percent of those who display all these warning signs will never commit a crime and 99% of them would never attempt a mass shooting. It may be that all people who display these signs deserve to have their complaints addressed and their stress reduced, but making them the focus of unwarranted scrutiny is not the right thing to do. In any case, bad social policy is at the root of the problem and a multi-cultural society makes it almost impossible to create social policy that works for everyone. We need to put a moratorium on immigration, eliminate ten million illegal immigrants, focus on the welfare of citizens, and undo many of the libtard policies that have been put in place over the course of the last half century. The melting pot has become a pressure cooker and the results are obvious.
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Re: Mass Shootings - Blame It On The Books!

Postby pcslim » Mon Aug 05, 2019 9:16 am

The IQ Crisis Has Resulted In An Increasingly Dysfunctional Society
As our society has become increasingly multi-cultural, it has also become increasingly dysfunctional. Closely paralleling this trend has been a consistent drop in average IQ as a result of social policies initiated in the 1960s:
The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray) wrote:Mounting evidence indicates that demographic trends are exerting downward pressure on the distribution of cognitive ability in the USA and that the pressures are strong enough to have social consequences. The professional consensus is that the USA has experienced dysgenic pressures throughout most of the past century.

This is incredibly important because:
The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray) wrote:As IQs drop the following things increase: poverty, single mothers, incarceration rates, high school drop out rates, etc.

The white guilt phenomenon has allowed this trend to go unchecked. We still see this phenomenon exerting a huge amount of influence on what Herrnstein and Murray refer to as the cognitive elites. The most politically correct institutions currently are universities, media companies, and tech giants such as Google/YouTube and Facebook.
The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray) wrote:Since the 1960s this long-standing discomfort among white elites has taken on the character of a sensitivity so acute that it resembles a disorder.

The problem with this situation is that it's very much like a balloon about to burst:
The Bell Curve (Herrnstein and Murray) wrote:Racism will reemerge in a new and more virulent form. The tension between what the white elite is supposed to think and what it is actually thinking about race will reach something close to a breaking point. This pessimistic prognosis must be contemplated: When the break comes, the result, as so often happens when cognitive dissonance is resolved, will be an overreaction in the other direction.

Currently we see individuals being pushed to their breaking points in various ways. It's not actually fair to characterize their reaction as racism. It's more accurate to suggest that these individuals are reacting to an increasingly dysfunctional society. They correctly understand that multi-culturalism has something to do with the problem, but most likely do not realize that IQs have consistently dropped off since the 1960s due to dysgenic forces (aka, the welfare state). On top of that recent immigrants have on average had substantially below average IQs. This has resulted in an ever increasing portion of the population having below average IQs and this not only results in higher crime rate and drop out rates, but it also means that many of those entering the work force are incompetent and only have a minimal capacity to be trained to a point where they can competently perform their jobs. In a word, we're screwed! And all this has created the pressure cooker situation that desertrat mentioned.

BTW, The Bell Curve was published in the 1990s. It has been viciously attacked by SJW types, but it has increased in popularity over the years because the facts that it presents are irrefutable. Any intellectually honest person would recognize the truth presented in the book. It's a long read, but it's an amazing read. However, don't blame the messenger. It's the message that policy makers need to be aware of.
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