• warm@kbin.earth
    111·
    9 hours ago

    Guns are ingrained into their culture. Add a lack of good education and social services onto that and this is what you get.

    • quill7513@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      8·
      8 hours ago

      not sure why you’re sitting in the negative it’s literally true. sociologists call it “the cult of the gun.” it goes beyond just “the problem is the guns” and into “the problem is the relationship with the guns.” we’re one of only two nations on earth where upper middle class families commonly take photos of themselves with guns for holidays, and the other one is israel. we have it ingrained in us that gun is more than just a tool or a weapon, but instead a monument to our identities, frequently with that identity being tied to masculinity.

      then you have to dig into the motivations behind most school shootings. the profile of most school shooters is incredibly consistent. they’re usually older boys or young men with an interest in manosphere identity politics. we usually just say “incel” but it’s bigger than that. incels are just one subculture within the manosphere, and the school shooters are coming from all across the manosphere.

      additionally we don’t talk about school shootings as what they are. i have survived two school shootings. it wasn’t until 13 years after the second experience that someone explained to me that these are terrorist attacks. they are terrorist attacks because the motivations of the shooters are usually to influence politics more towards something that they want. people with an education in how our society is structured are going to be more likely to take their frustrations and dedicate their energy to organizing.

      this is not what happens with school shooters though. the reason for this is is that when they get cut off from one last tether to their perceived sense of masculinity, they go to reclaim their masculinity in the way that’s been taught to them rs what it means to be a man: through omnidirectional violence. the goal of their terrorism is to make others see them and to make sure that the targets of their hate, usually women, particularly queer and minority women, live their day to day lives with more fear of men.

      hold on let me go find a link to a video for people…

      edit: FD Signifier has talked about this a few times. he literally has a masters degree from his time as a social worker studying how to understand and address this societal problem. but this is also covered in the conservative death cult video and the connecting the manosphere video

    • quill7513@anarchist.nexusEnglish
      8·
      7 hours ago

      https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3VzGdo1IDdc

      top level summary: manosphere edgelords are fucking losers. when they feel emasculated they target their violence at who they hate (usually women, school teachers are often women), who they’re jealous of (in the case of school children, school children are often representative of the last time the terrorist felt whole, when they felt safe from the world, and before the pressure to perform masculinity became overwhelming during puberty. additionally children are representative of a community’s hope for a future, and shooters are often completely doomeristic in their worldview), and who they feel does not present a threat of fighting back, or “soft targets” as they’re sometimes called (school shooters are very consistently trying to crack a high score. they make references to prior shooters and keep track of a leaderboard in their diaries and notes)