Seriously? Thats like bad fanfic Gary-Stu bullshit. Just...wow.
What do you mean? The shooting or is the shooter the "Gary Stu"?
News reports need to quit giving the perp an identity. Quit showing their faces or showing their manifestos. Just refer to them as "The Shooter/Suspect/Perpetrator" and nothing more.
There needs to be reforms in how these things are reported. When potential shooters realize that they'll stay faceless & anonymous, the shootings will drop in frequency. If they can de-emphasize today's serial killers these days, why not mass-shooters.
* Make the shooters anonymous!
* Beef up the mental health system.
* Teach kindness, sharing, empathy & proper conflict resolution in schools.
* Shame "Toxic Masculinity". Expose it for the inhuman pile of scat it is! Notice how almost all these shooters are guys? There's a big "Machismo" component to this. Dumb males swallowing the "Macho Guy - Shoot Shoot" Flavor-Aid! Fuck that! Real men are gentlemen! I'm only aware of 1-3 shootings where the perp was a woman - The "Don't Like Mondays" girl comes to mind. Here's some articles on this.....
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2012/07/25/why-men-commit-mass-murders.htmlhttp://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/patterns-mass-shootings-conversation-men/http://news.discovery.com/human/brief-why-are-mass-shooters-almost-always-men-121217.htmHow they deal with issues, choice of weapon.....*sigh*
Guess who is staying classy? Gawker.
And of course there are also claims about this being a false flag attack in order to take away the guns from Americans... "They must be in hurry since there was a highly publicized shooting just a while ago."
And some of the "Muh 2nd amendment" folks are glad that the shooter was black because "this means that media will shut up about the 'dindu' killing some white folks but if the shooter had been white and victims black they would have made a huge spectacle about this."
I hope they're wrong. A mass-shooting is a mass-shooting and it was LIVE on TV!
What is it about America that makes it so obsessed with machismo & guns? I'm sick of this!
Now, there are plenty of good men out there and plenty of good masculine guys. However, males are a weird sort. Some can't handle maleness and many have huge egos.
I'm going to get a lot of hate for this but I think masculinity....as a PRINCIPLE, should be subject to femininity. Masculinity without femininity is aggressive macho bullshit! We need to FEMINIZE & INTELLECTUALIZE society, man!
I'm not against men & boys, I believe in absolute sexual equality. Men & Women should be complete equals. However, masculinity needs femininity to survive. Shiva's just a corpse without Shakti.
My stupid country with it's teabaggers, machismo & Old West mentality! I'm sick of it! I wish I could have super powers and FORCE this country to turn into an Androgynous Hippie Scandinavia!!!
I'm outta here. I need to "decompress"! Peace, everybody! I love you all and wish you well. I need to take a break for a while. I'll be back.