And this is the reason I legally carry a firearm! I am a 60 y/o woman... maybe a “target” by today’s standards? I practice consistently and am “safe” with my “side-kick” but IF I’m ever in the F@ck around arena; well... it will match the “Find out” response!
I agree in principal, but in too many larger American cities today, the person attempting to protect themselves with a gun is arrested and charged. The purpose is to produce a society of passive supplicants to those in charge. We live in smaller town South Carolina. A lot of people here carry, and we see next to none of this kind of gratuitous violence
Indeed. Greetings from Justine Castreau's "Democratic Peoples' Republic of Canuckistan" where the cops can break down my door at any time of the day or night and take my guns. Without warning, without a warrant and without any accusation; just an anoymous whisper thank you very much.
I always like Heinlein's stuff even if his politics purportedly, were somewhere to the right of Mussolini's... 🤔
BTW did you know L. Ron Hubbard was a disciple of Aliestar Crowley? If you've never heard of "Uncle Aliestar", look up his biography for shits and giggles...😱
I met Heinlein and his wife. Politically speaking, he was a Jeffersonian minarchist, i.e., very small, minimal government strictly limited to specific delegated powers. He supported a strong military (along with private ownership of weapons) but a military that was limited to defensive, NOT aggressive action.
Oh! Regarding Crowley -- if you can find it, look up the time Crowley stayed as a guest of G.I. Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff's parting words (paraphrased) as he sent Crowley off at the train station: "You are an evil, dirty man, dirty on the inside. Never come back to my home, ever again!"
Thanks for the clarification of Heinlein's politics.. Latterly far as the mainstream media is concerned seems unless you're at least some variety of Menshevik, you're a Neonazi scumbag...
I have to say Gurdjieff's parting words to Crowley were a masterpiece of restraint.. Had they lived at the same time Crowley and Marx might have made an interesting gay couple... 🤢
Those attacking others need to be placed in prison until they’re too old to continue their anti-social lifestyles. How old is that? Perhaps 80 or above.
At least in America you can do this. In Canada you have to take a course and buy a license to own them, all guns are registered and thanks to Justin all handguns that aren't already purchased are now illegal; the ones you own have to be turned into the police when you die -- even heirlooms -- and finally the police can enter your house at any time without a warrant and seize your guns on nothing more than an anonymous tip.
Oh, and did I forget to mention you have to inform the police and get a letter of permission every time you wish to transport them?
And what has any of this nannystate legislation done about criminal gun use? You guessed it: Nothing.
Did they? You see the morons in office around the world, you tell me did they elect these morons? In my humble opinion we have false elections everywhere and computers have made it provable and easier to pull off.
I admit to my dying shame that I voted for Justine Castreau -- 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲. Never again. (Nor will I vote, ever again, for 𝘢𝘯𝘺 of the lying posturing prats.) Not that it makes any difference. Québec and Ontario keep voting for the puking WEF-ensconced little shit and they always carry the elections.
At this point all I want to have happen is this country to disintegrate and fall into the hands of the Northern Red States.
I am so sick to death of all our Quisling politicians, all lined up waiting for their turn to suck Klaus Schwab's and Bill Gates' cocks.. they don't give a fuck about me, they don't give a fuck about you, they're only in it for themselves...
I used to be a liberal-minded Canadian Nationalist. Not any more.
You need a license in the US as well and guns are also registered here. As for carry laws, they differ by state and many make you take a class for at least the extra carry permit but in some cases just to get the permit to own a gun. It’s not nearly as lax as our left tries to portray it.
My gun in the wrong hands is why you want to be armed, and own more than one weapon, with quick access in an emergency.
My guns will only 'be in the wrong hands' if I am not vigilant. Guns in the the hands of anyone, is a reason for every person to have the right to own weapons.
If someone breaks into your home with a machete, what will you do? Get your machete and fight it out? Don't be fooled by the tyranny of 'manufactured opinion' and think it through.
I and all my neighbors are fully armed and I've never felt safer.
And how subject were you to vaccine mandates? Try packing a gun with you some time and see if that doesn't inspire thoughts of independence. Liberty. Equality.
Its fairly obvious that the more guns are around, the more injuries there will be: frankly this kind of atrocity takes place every day in the USA - I honestly have no idea why you put up with it: take the guns away and the death count will drop immediately:
"Two cheerleaders have been shot in a Texas carpark after opening the wrong car door.
The shooting was the third time in a week that young people have become victims of gun crime after making an innocent mistake.
A group of four cheerleaders, who had carpooled, were travelling back from practice in Austin when they pulled into a car park to pick up their own vehicles.
Heather Roth, one of the cheerleaders, opened the door of what she thought was her car, only to find a man in the passenger seat.
Realising her mistake, she climbed into her own car.
Two of the cheerleaders were shot, one was treated at the scene and the other, Payton Washington, was airlifted to hospital where she was reportedly in a critical condition.
Ms Washington's father, Kelan, said doctors removed her spleen and she was stable in the intensive care unit at Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas in Austin.
Hey Rob, respectfully disagree. Here in the USA we have a constitution that guarantees our right to bear arms. Criminals don't have that right, guns don't commit crime, criminals do. If that criminal was in New York city or other liberal cities he'd be out of jail without posting any bail in 24hrs. We just need to keep these criminals in jail. Too bad the libtards won't do that 😕.
If someone broke into my home with a machete, I would smile, offer him a whisky and discuss philosophy all night.
But then, I have strolled through more ghettoes than most people: it is not the machete that is the problem, it is the damaged mind. Find out what people are searching for, and go half way with them. What you will find is a frightened, small boy, who has lost his way.
if he wants your wallet: cheerfully give him your wallet, He needs it far more than you do. And you can cancel the cards when he leaves ;-)
There were three of them. They tied the parents up, assaulted the children in front of the parents, murdered the father and mother, left the children wounded but alive.
All this for kicks. Too bad he didn't have any whiskey though, huh?
The London knife murders are all young men killing each other because of gangs and drugs. They are so wrapped up in their petty little worlds they don't even see the rest of us and don't even seem to know they are in one of the (supposed) great capital cities of the world. They are generally of West Indian heritage, often without fathers, usually with very poor educations and with little chance of being employed should they make it to adulthood. Sadly, nobody in positions of power seem to care. For "normal" people, London (and the UK in general) is a safe place.
Actually this is no longer true: I don't have the stats to hand, but my impression is that most knife crime in London is by the sons of more recent arrivals from Africa and the Middle East - struggling to find an identity and purpose, and battling for territory to sell drugs.
Generally speaking, unless you are a Harvard graduate, you would be wise not to argue with a Brit: we are rather good at being correct, most of the time.
When World War Two broke out, Great Britain begged for Americans to send their personally owned firearms, and Americans responded by the millions. Those rifles and handguns helped the subjects (note that I do not say "citizens") of GB train, fight, and ultimately survive, the war. Of course MILLIONS of European civilians died for lack of weapons to defend themselves, but strangely, those who support disarming free people never count those lost lives as part of the cost of disarmament. Apparently the gun confiscation crowd does not count Jews, gays, Jehovah's Witnesses, and political dissidents, as human lives.
After the war, GB destroyed the weapons which private Americans had sent to them. You would think the least they could have done is to return them to the US, but no. Easier to destroy them and make sure no commoners got their hands on any of them. No sense taking a chance that the class of people with saddles on their backs be able to stand up to the class born with spurs.
It is disgusting what cowards the British have become.
I have no need to protect myself, here in Scotland, because there are no conceivable threats.
I often forget to lock my front door: many Scots don't bother. They argue, not unreasonably, that they own very little of value anyway, and if they get burgled, they have insurance, so who cares?
Take that strategy of deterrence through the threat of violence to its logical endpoint.
Imagine that your local police had access to helicopter gunships, mines, nuclear weapons.
Would this prevent crime?
I suspect not!
Then consider what happens when a four year old child finds your gun, and decides to play with it.
The koolaid in the US politics is unfortunately heavily spiked! It is really quite remarkable that people are still standing with the odious and totally selfish con-artist Trump and all his false promises! After his casinos, many badly run businesses, the fraudulent Trump U.; his management of the pandemic including Operation Warp Speed! It really is quite remarkable and they want to train teenagers in the use of lethal force! We should be weeping over all the deaths instead of acting like coke heads, with zero remorse or conscience!
Spoken like a truly domesticated slave, a child who relies on the adults for protection.
"Reasonable men and women, use reason as their secret weapon."
Secret? No! It's my first choice, but reason only works on the reasonable. Having a weapon is for use in defending myself (and family) from those who choose NOT to be reasonable.
Your understanding of risk, is probably even worse than your mastery of martial arts.
The stats prove that your chance of your firearm injuring a member of your own family are greater than the chance of saving their lives by successfully deterring an assailant.
And your understanding of statistics and the nature of proof are even worse than your mastery of history and democide.
Which brings me back to my first comment and the part that people such as yourself never respond to. Here is that part again: "Of course MILLIONS of European civilians died for lack of weapons to defend themselves, but strangely, those who support disarming free people never count those lost lives as part of the cost of disarmament. Apparently the gun confiscation crowd does not count Jews, gays, Jehovah's Witnesses, and political dissidents, as human lives."
Europe lost six million civilians because they were disarmed and could not defend themselves. As I expected, you completely discount their deaths. Why do you fail to even mention them? Do you think they were human?
Looks like the gun nuts are out in force insistent that their overkill "solutions" of extreme force or threat are the only good ones! No one ever changed their minds!
On the contrary, many gun owners seem to shoot first, ask questions later.
People panic - they seem to be unable to think straight: By George Wright
BBC News
A man has been charged with second-degree murder in the US after he allegedly shot and killed a 20-year-old woman as the car she was in mistakenly drove up the man's driveway.
Kaylin Gillis was with three other people in New York state on Saturday.
They accidentally drove into the driveway of Kevin Monahan in the town of Hebron, police say.
As the driver was leaving, Mr Monahan, 65, allegedly opened fire on the vehicle, hitting Ms Gillis.
Can you legally shoot before asking questions?
"This is a very sad case of some young adults who were looking for a friend's house and ended up at this man's house who decided to come out with a firearm and discharge it," Washington Country Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy told a news conference.
The area is rural, and the driveways are poorly lit at night. None of the group had exited the vehicle or attempted to enter Mr Monahan's house before he allegedly opened fire, Mr Murphy said.
In the US, we have continued gun violence because politicians fail to put the perpetrators in prison for life. Violent criminals are repeatedly let out of prison, and then recommit similar or worse violent acts. It’s a circular problem because of the abject failure of hacks who are elected to protect us fail at their jobs. The people with the ability to learn will avoid such crimes. Those who do not should be permanently caged.
A man has been charged with second-degree murder in the US after he allegedly shot and killed a 20-year-old woman as the car she was in mistakenly drove up the man's driveway.
Kaylin Gillis was with three other people in New York state on Saturday.
They accidentally drove into the driveway of Kevin Monahan in the town of Hebron, police say.
As the driver was leaving, Mr Monahan, 65, allegedly opened fire on the vehicle, hitting Ms Gillis.
Can you legally shoot before asking questions?
"This is a very sad case of some young adults who were looking for a friend's house and ended up at this man's house who decided to come out with a firearm and discharge it," Washington Country Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy told a news conference.
The area is rural, and the driveways are poorly lit at night. None of the group had exited the vehicle or attempted to enter Mr Monahan's house before he allegedly opened fire, Mr Murphy said.
Not sure if you're trying to make a point or just reporting on the danger of letting an elderly man with possible cognitive difficulties keep a gun. After a certain age, should there be some sort of evaluation to determine physical and mental capabilities for gun ownership? They do that now in several states for driver's licenses. An interesting question for voters and the courts. Alternatively, was the young man who was shot actually "just minding his business" or was there some kind of threat involved? A recording doorbell camera or a witness would be helpful.
Statistics show that states with stand your ground laws have seen a rise in homicides by 10% or higher.
John Roman, director of the Center on Public Safety and Justice at NORC at the University of Chicago, authored a study examining 53,019 cases involving stand your ground laws.
He told the BBC that they "promote violence".
"People feel like they have an added protection that makes them more likely to shoot where they wouldn't have shot without that perceived protection," he said.
It also "tragically" increases racial disparities in the US criminal justice system, he said.
Data from the report showed that, when the shooter is white and the victim is black, the white shooter is 10 times more likely to have their actions deemed justified than when the shooter is black and the victim is white.
The study found that, in cases where stand your ground laws featured, 11.4% of white-on-black homicides were ruled as justified, compared to just 1.2% of black-on-white homicides. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65282084
Yes, that was always my mantra. Yet, being slayn by some almighty totalitarianism "police forces" controlled state is not my favorite.
Find something in between.
Sparing lives.
Those of the victims of totalitarian police control forces as well as those of the police as well.
Making conflict unnecessary as anyone gets a mirror rammed up his face telling him/her to behave to some "norm" or "etiquette". See this excellent article on how people can co-operate when they become more people than our ancient brains can "capture".:
Anything built with capability to kill eventually will do so.
I understand your feelings and motives.
I understand that the armed part of US prevents totalitarian dark forces move too quickly.
But I also understand that it rises need for „special forces“ that outgun any private person defending the first amendment: this is a cat-and-mouse game with some aspects of hare and hedgehog. The weapon industry „is already there“. More precisely, the banking-pharma-BigData-Military complex that all went to bed together. On whose behalf?
Yet I hope that > 8 billion people will come up with something better than "striking capability" weapons.
I want more "defensive only" weapons. Like shields, and electronics neutralising tricks. The things you only get when DIRECTLY funding "defensive only" weapons, so you never get by the huge amounts the military complex eats up for nothing but future suffering and misery and doom of mankind.
Imagine we find some gas or fluid making technology of totalitarian control useless.
Just like corroding. I sometimes ask myself if that is the reason inorganic antiseptics are so ... hacked upon, discredited (they solve many problems, without being some "wonder". They just do their job. And let anything iron RUST very intesive. ;))
Now imagine H2O2 indeed lets GHO (yes, Graphene Hydroxide) rust. Yes, insides your body, insides the wide therapeutic band (all inorganic antiseptics offer). Between minimal effective dose and the upper limit, for me, being NOAEL, known for all of them by toxicology, especially for those used for water treatment like CIO2 and NaHCIO.
You just have to find some "treatment regime" or timing that states: use 5ml 2% H2O2 as inhaled (pH 6.5!), then wait 2 hours, then do your Vitamin-C and OPC cure to replenish your anti-oxidants".
Done.
Imagine someone trying out H2O2 or any other oxidans to be used on weapon technology. Add some tenside, to remove protective oil and get to the core of the iron. And it GNAWS on the iron. How much use will some corroded military technology be of?
Then use it for LIFE.
You can de-infestate the GO / GHO.. nanoparticles even on soil.
Afterwards, you re-apply some Effective Microorganisms to help the soil to re-establish some symbiiontic biome.
I hope I could give some more precise hints on what I mean by "arms NOT intended to kill".
Keep you fire arm. I'm a quite precise shooter, always did it as some "meditation", and the shooting club of my father always wanted to have me as a member. But I was inspired too pacifistically.
I now regret that partially.
But not the insights I have drawn from the other side of the mirror ;=)
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Killed througgh your phone:
And your car. And in future, any "internet of thing" thing. Including your chipped body.
Had an episode where car quit service, throttling power in the night, due to "electronic power control problem", switched off-on to no avial several times.
And then I orderd siri to shut off data links (I did a macro in short cuts, you can place as some icon on one screen, then being siri reachable). After "locking out" the network, and restart of car, it was all ok. Before going offline with iPhone, restart had no effect, and EPC problem remained (VW/Skoda technology). OK, I did "only" try it 4x before staring at the phone and thinking "heck, just posted some anti-groupthink thing" about Chab@d Lub@witch). The black hats always around political leaders like Trump, Biden, the Queen Family in GB, behind putin and the ukrainian nazis, behind the WEF, the ones the Epoch Times means by "the devils", in their books they advertise, for now making much more sense to me, etc.
The ones that think they have to "help" the apocalyse to take place in their generation, which, they (falsely) believe justifies ALL slaughtery and unforgiveably sins, even encourages them to be perpetraitors in ANY unforgiveable sin, has to be sped-up and driven-to by ALL means, even if it means murder of countless souls. Very striking "un-ethnics" I deem...
Interesting thing is they stive this path very deterministically since something like 1500. Watched a video on yt on this on DE, sorry, "Die geheime Geschichte (1)", wie eine auserwählte Sekte die Welt kaperte", (How an "chosen" sect captured the world). Try the sub-titles.
See this gnostic piece of old papyros translation effort:
We can only try to "heal" those people, form their "aberration" from old beliefs to some perverted form of collective sinning.
It is very much connected with the suffering of narcissitic psychopaths suffering from deprived empathy capabilites.
And as we know, two things have to fall in one time-place-moment:
- the insight of the victim to need therapy
- someone helping him or her with true love
Yet... it is soooo difficult to love a narcissitic person that has NOT gained the insight it needs therapy...
Until then, all the "divide et impera" traits of the seeds of the ones I described above have their full potential of influence on any lost soul in your family...
Let us pray for wisdom and humility and love and ... survival.
My home region has long been very peaceful and civil but in recent years local police have started to take a dreadfully passive stance when it comes to enforcing some laws and crime is rising substantially. Although I still doubt I'll run into any trouble, and though it is something of a nuisance, I too have started carrying pepper spray and my sidearm routinely especially when I'm with loved ones in public. I was MOS 95B in the Army (military police) as a young man so being armed is nothing new, I just didn't feel it necessary as a civilian until recently. Government agency behavior in some areas of our nation is not acceptable.
I’m with you Jen! But have not yet purchased a firearm. We have shotguns, but no handgun yet. I’ve practiced using friend’s at a gun range, but have a hard time loading the magazine due to arthritis in my thumbs. Is yours hard to load?
Use I-RECOVER ( FLCCC.net/protocols )on your arthritis as well, and DMSO and inorganic antiseptics, topically (DMSO drags in drugs, like Arnica, limit to 10%, or you'll bleed, as it is such an efficient blood thinner, and DMSO is anti-inflammatory as well) as well as systemically. Safe, effective, cheap, available, self-TRANSPARENT.
All the properties most BigVaxPharMafia drugs lack.
See Dr. Morton Walker, DMSO, nature's healer, very nice literature list as well.
There is only one drawback, you smell of garlic-mussels by using it.
(My kid smells doses like half a mililiter, so no chance of " I just used some ointment" excuse. Take your family hard: do you mind me stinking if I'm gettin healed with it? YES NO?
Only cure: give your family a homeopathic dose of some drops. Then they will not complain, and themselves be not smelling "complainable".
Or take some days off for the cure, it takes 2 days to wear out.
THE real drawback why not all use it is explained in Dr. Walkers book:
The former chief of FDA freaked out on DMSO, as he "could not control it". As it is both a drug and a technical solvant.
So you see, nothing has changed since 1060+, we are still run by some cartells, and the mighty ones behind still want to lead us all to abyss.
Wearing their black hats and pretending to be very to the lore.
Well, with my fingers aching from chronic inflammation since the shots especially, I rather like the magzines you slide in and done. Instead of fibbling with single rounds.
But in the end, I try NOT to get involved in weapons and find ways to protect loved ones we yet do not see.
AGAINST WHAT? is the first question.
- Blackout (wood stove, 1kWp solar and a battery for fridge),
- famine (plant linseeds),
- new released viruses from Level-4 labs (inorganic antiseptics, multi-modal plant therapy),
- new waves of DIS-information (you already read here, try convincing more)
- Internet down: do local copies of all relevant content like text books to train the young, from physics to biology, from covid to zikka, try to get up and running a radio based "small internet" like LoRaWan to replace internet when it is down, to order medicne, fuel, and get a short mesage to relatives far away.
- EMP burst from solar eruption (some years to go), doing 50kV/m^2
While you are at it, place filters and overvoltage protection for 150kV/m^2, as this is the strenghs of fields for human provoked EMPs... Ask your local power supplier if it placed EMP protection at the transformation stations. If not, ask how long it things it takes to replace ALL power transoformers of a country after som 50kV/m^2 EMP occured. And it will occur. So 1% costs now against "end of modern life" later.
After this long list, at the end, there comes someone I could drive away with a shotgun from my grounds.
If waving it at officials feeling they are on the right side of justice, as they always do, I'm dead anyways.
I’m not a “Fundamentalist” or “Legalist” but verses like this provide me/our land with insight, direction and comfort:
“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,”
2 Timothy 3:1-4
“if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
I am pretty much a "fundamentalist" and read the Bible through every year....different translations including the most important one IMO Youngs Literal. Problem is in the US most organized religion has been infiltered with Zionist dogma (on purpose just do the research especially by Whitney Webb). The last days were when the Bible was written (even Hebrews states they were in the last days) and the last days hasn't been going on for 2000+ years. We live in the Kingdom NOW with the power of our Sovereign Almighty God in our hearts (we are the temple now).
I don't know what "Bible" you read, but the actual Bible, from God, indicates that He is a Zionist. Try looking up Genesis 12:3. This is why real Christians, and most conservatives, are Zionists.
That promise was made to Abraham a Gentile at the time. And by the way I already elaborated what "Bible I read". I use all approved translations and use proper hermeneutics.
Romans 9:6. "For they are not all Israel who are of Israel"
What does that mean? God never promised unconditionally to each offspring of Abraham covenantal blessings. God never intended that all of the nation Israel would be redeemed. Within national Israel is "true Israel," or "spiritual Israel." The nation was chosen to be a vehicle of blessing to the world, but not all within the nation were chosen to salvation. The nation was elected to privilege, but only individuals are elected to salvation. Most Jews believed that all who are born of Jewish blood are saved by birth. They felt secure because they were children of Abraham and therefore in the covenant of promise.
Oh...BTW I forgot to mention....please let me know where you came into possession of the original manuscripts of the Bible. I'd pay you $$$$ to have them.
Actually yes he did. “All Israel will be saved” of course He also said it will only be a third that’s left by then. It doesn’t matter what Judaism is teaching, those who will be saved will do so by faith in Jesus when the time comes, through the experience of the 70th week of Daniel. A time that is fast approaching. And yes, we’ve been in the last days since the resurrection. God’s timing is not the same as ours. Compare a couple millennia to eternity and maybe that will help you.
Kingdom now theology is so screwed up. How are you enjoying your millennial period of peace on earth ruled by Jesus from His throne in Jerusalem? Lol. It’s so perfect isn’t it?
Give it time, you’ll see the truth. It’s coming soon. So is His return for a literal thousand year reign on earth. Buckle up buttercup. It gets worse before it gets better.
"The last days" are usually thought to be the "end of the world," but the arrogance and brutality described in the Bible equally applies to the end of any nation or civilization. If Western countries do not "turn from their wicked ways" the world will go on without us. We will just live in barbarian savagery while China and Russia run the world without us. We can still alter that future if we have the political will to reject Democrats/Socialists, restore the rule of law, and imprison criminals instead of celebrating them. If we fail in that cause then the violent scenes from social media are just a glimmer of what lies ahead for all of us.
Thank you. Nice post. 'IF' is a HUGE word. From my perspective, I believe we have gone far beyond any possibility of, 'IF'... perhaps I am just too old. True repentance seems to be too much for most. I try not to judge, as I am absolutely not qualified for that. The path forward looks ominous. I continue to pray that I am wrong.
Absent some divine intervention, American civilization will collapse within 5-10 years. It will happen sooner if the Democrats are not completely removed from power in 2024. Savages already roam our streets and have destroyed once beautiful cities. The Democrats have delegitimized authority as "racist" and glorified ignorance and violence. They encourage the most hideous acts of perversion against children, and have turned our great universities into madhouses. They have opened our borders to barbarian hordes and preach their gospel of hate from their television pulpits and the White House. They have turned hospitals into charnel houses, law courts into circus shows, and scientific laboratories into weapons of mass destruction. The rot is far advanced but it is our duty to try to stop it no matter the odds.
When you and I attended school there were proportional consequences to bad behavior. If a student hit a teacher or administrator, they were expelled and charged with battery. Today the little monsters are portrayed as victims of a racist system, and the teacher or administrator are "educated/indoctrinated" how to speak with the little monsters. This has persisted past schools where violent criminals are released without bail and often their actions are treated as misdemeanors in our larger cities. BF Skinner was correct: A behavior that's rewarded (as in ignored) is repeated. One that receives a negative consequence is not.
I take issue with the concluding allusion to "what takes place when a society’s institutional order breaks down, and humans return to their archaic, tribal, and warlike animal state. " As if, we are innately "warlike animal-s". I take issue, and believe that we are collectively, being manipulated into a state of hyper-stress that expresses in violent ways, towards self and others.
I, personally, experience physical and mental distress from wireless radiation. I am hyper-aware when I am around all wireless- phones, towers, wifi, smart-meters, etc. Does not matter if it's 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G-- each level affects different functions and parts of my body. I used to be able to tell what make of cellphone a person had near me. I can still tell an iPhone from an Android.
With enough exposure, I become depressed, anxious, sleepless, angry, lashing out at others, and on bad days- suicidal. I believe these effects are being felt by many more than are aware. Add to the wireless smog of exposure 24/7 constant electro-magnetic radiation pulsing, unhealthy bodies, poor nutrition, lack of overall wellbeing, and many are headed for emotional turmoil and disaster.
"I don't feel anything" "I've never heard of this issue" "It's all in her/his head" "That'd ridiculous, our agencies would be making sure this is safe, and they say it is" - Right, just like the Jab is safe, just like GMO foods are safe, cancer can't be healed with diet, Jan 6th was caused by Trump, Ivermectin is harmful, no one has died from the c-19 shot, Anthony Fauci cares about US, and just like all the myriad of "Truths" we are told everyday.
There is a lot to the effects of these things. More and more studies are proving that. Sadly it’s just never going to be widely known or believed bc those who control it control everything. I think it’s called hyperelectrosensitivity or something like that. I have some sleeplessness issues as well and also, I can hear electricity. It’s been several years now. I’m the only person I know that’s happy when the power goes out for a short time due to a storm or something. It gets so quiet and peaceful. There are ways to combat these things to a point. I use a faraday bag for electronics. Unplug anything in your home that doesn’t need to stay plugged in when not in use. Vacation off grid. Even unplug your WiFi system at night to sleep. I wish you relief.
Thanks Dakota. You are correct- EHS is one label for this affliction- (electro-hypersensitivity) however, a newer label is EMS- electro-magnetic sensitivity. This new label- EMS- is more accurate since people can be sensitive to different bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, like yourself being able to hear electricity. btw- I love when the electricity goes out!
I hardwired my desktop computers- we use ethernet cords and a hardwired router, so no wifi here. I also sleep in a canopy that blocks most all signals. I also wear a tunic and hat in public that both block signals.
If that is the case, then why isn't Taiwan (practically swimming in 5G) having a Great American Freak Out (TM) right now? Take as long as you wish with your answer.
The glaring contrast between the way people actually live in this country and the relentless random violence shown in the media in their other view of this country serves to expose the latter's constant divide-and-conquer message: Races, please hate each other. Genders, please hate each other. Parents and genital mutilation enthusiasts, please hate each other.
Thanks John. Excellent post. Part of the problem is that there are a lot of people who give the madness on video an audience. I used to wonder back in the early terrorist days, after 9-11, why the news networks devoted so much time to terrorism. Once you insist of taking God out of the picture, things go downhill rapidly. Peace. :-)
I have heard that theory before by others. . . like the CIA offing JFK, it is so hard to take in. I understand the likelihood of it being truth but cannot bear to open my mind to the facts at this point. Once you accept it one can barely breathe.
Indeed. Read "The Devils Chessboard" by Talbot. It is an amazing look at the horror that was/is the Dulles CIA. Every terrorist act has been deep state Machiavellian machinations devised by a sleepless malevolence.
John, I have to say, glad I am not subscribed to any social media-- specially, after hearing about this Trans-axer. It seems Burke's description is too high level for this particular form of chaos. I cannot provide better fodder but the French Revolution is certainly a starting point example . . . I pray the USA is not the end point.
Mass communications mal-usage of propaganda is the pernicious root to be removed or replaced.
What really bothers me more about the Twitter feed is the fact that the phone user chose to record rather than intervene.
Many thanks for drawing my attention to this. I have added a correction to online version of the post, though it's too late to correct the E-mail version.
The fact that this criminal man is referred to as a woman only reinforces the fact that our subservience to this insanity is a form of Stockholm Syndrome. Nothing will change until we develop the courage to confront it. Even the victims here are playing the game. I have lost all sympathy for those who are willing to play along.
Yeah, you know, it almost does not matter where these days. . . The effect travels around the world in a fraction of a second. The mass media communicators know this and use it to high advantage.
Thanks for pointing out the date. Actually the time stamped date at the beginning of the video was 2017. The article made me think it recently happened, causing me to feel more upset, defeated, fearful, etc.
Truth also on violent video games, now where I live violent meetings among youngsters ending in lynching.....Tahiti and Bora-bora come to paradise to get slaughtered
Psychotropic drugs since grade school, video games extolling violence since grade school, and a government that practices violence at every turn, and a culture that promotes war and violence. We reap what has been sown for decades at least
Fortunately, I don't watch TV or mainstream media, nor Twitter, except when directed to a specific link to watch/read something. These events are heinous. I watched a man dressed like a woman scream obscenities to the cashier in a store, saying, "It's maam," and then smashing some merchandise before leaving the store. There are some deranged people out there and the 'acceptance' of the whole trans scene is aiding and abetting this.
Our species evolved in small nomadic tribes of up to 150 individuals. We evolved in the natural environment where our daily fight for survival was against animal predators or natural geological or weather events with the occasional confrontation with other nomadic tribes. Clearly it worked well enough for us to survive relatively strong and healthy and mentally stable. The intimacy of the tribe meant that children were well cared for, women were honoured for their life-giving and nurturing capabilities, elders were respected for their knowledge and experience and men provided the physical protection and material needs such as weapons and shelter.
Fast forward to our current civilization and nobody feels safe, loved, protected, honoured or respected. Families are being torn to shreds. Alpha males at the top dominate and control the population while extracting wealth from their labour and concentrating power ever more tightly in the hands of fewer and fewer people while surveilling and controlling every move out of perpetual fear of uprisings. This is not a functional model for human culture.
Socialism, communism and capitalism have all had their turn and have all failed to provide for the needs of the vast majority of human society. Yes, capitalism SEEMS to have created more wealth, but that's only because the discovery of fossil fuels temporarily enabled the extraction of massive amounts resources beyond our daily needs. Since we live on a finite planet (SURPRISE!) and resources, especially fossil fuels, are not infinite, perhaps it's time to reflect on how we might return to a more localized, less hierarchical, more humane and livable culture similar to how we evolved. It will mean giving up all the comforts of 'civilization' but these comforts were are created at great expense to the planet, our communities and to ourselves.
In summary, there will be no great expansion of civilization to outer space and the stars if we annihilate future generations as we can see clearly happening. Our so-called 'leaders' are parasites and aim to cull the human species so that they can take the leftovers from this culture's orgy of consumption. You choose.
John, Twitter uses algos, and it's a black box of who-knows-really-whom trying to influence your thinking, and keep you glued there, endlessly scrolling and clicking. What you actually see is only in modest part a function of whom you have elected to follow. Perhaps I state the obvious. I really loathe Twitter. Yes, I used to be on there (under anorher name), a long time ago. Once I understood about the algos I walked away and will never return.
The thing that has changed is that so many people are taking psych drugs. The majority of perpetrators of this kind of “motiveless” violence are taking these drugs, where the medical history is known.
Interesting. I'm a positive guy and was a positive kid, but I always knew humans would do themselves in. The nature of the degradation and implosion is what has surprised me most.
John, I began witnessing this in NYC several years ago--but there was a motive element--robbery. Mostly grab & run, very little gun or horrid violence. It’s now an epidemic, escalated during covid. Instead of a random acts of kindness culture, it’s now random acts of violence, all too often resulting in murder. There’s definitely a political component--the leftist funded BLM, Antifa & now funded trans violent activism. The question: what type of personality chooses group thuggery? There’s some kind of innate rage disorder. Drugs involved? I don’t know, but twitter is filled with this--these are not isolated--happening daily in the US. I left NYC March of 2020. Will never go back. I have friends & family in Chicago, San Francisco..all want out.
I agree. Perhaps it’s what happens when you give every child a prize and there are no winners or losers. They eventually learn that life doesn’t work that way. One shouldn’t experience losing for the first time when 18 years old.
BTW, if you voted Democrat please leave your voting affiliation in NY. It leads to the same nonsense everywhere.
And as I've long noted, every time a senseless act of mass violence--there are hundreds this last year, sometimes more than one a day---the propagandist news hosts will always add "authorities are investigating the MOTIVE" as if the senseless brutal killins could possibly be a complicated plot out of Agatha Christie or other detective novels. Instead the newspersons should be asking what kind of culture leads to this senseless violent chaos, numbed as we are to the torture and killing of millions of foreign people who we've dehumanized as "enemies" and ingrained upon kids as young as 5 years via violent video games upon to serve as "all volunteer" U.S. military recruitment tools, killing ordered by our "leaders" as the main way of solving our collective problems.
Looking at videos on Twitter or Instagram always begs the question “How different was crime before we had social media?” You are seeing the acts of violence because someone put them there where it is easily accessible. I grew up in the 60’s and there were no cell phones, social media etc., so no way for me to know what was going on elsewhere. I’m pretty sure we were not aware of the extent of crime. However, I did grow up in Chicago and know for fact that “hundreds of teenagers” never stormed the downtown area. That had to do with adequate policing, support of police, and an intact family unit. Marxism, Socialism, and Communism are all different in certain ways, but they all have certain things in common, like destroying the family unit, lack of religious belief, and stratifying society in a manner to squelch creativity, freedom of speech, etc. This did not happen overnight. It has been going on for years, such that when BLM and “abortion on demand” even if you are 9 months pregnant became a point of discussion, it was not outrageous. Younger people who are acting out with horrific crimes already have some mental instability. What is different now is the knowledge that society is literally aiding and abetting them acting out their urges as there are no repercussions, poor access to Mental Health care, a general state of anxiety, and they were educated in public schools that do not honor the rights of the individual.
And this is the reason I legally carry a firearm! I am a 60 y/o woman... maybe a “target” by today’s standards? I practice consistently and am “safe” with my “side-kick” but IF I’m ever in the F@ck around arena; well... it will match the “Find out” response!
I agree in principal, but in too many larger American cities today, the person attempting to protect themselves with a gun is arrested and charged. The purpose is to produce a society of passive supplicants to those in charge. We live in smaller town South Carolina. A lot of people here carry, and we see next to none of this kind of gratuitous violence
An armed society is a polite society.
-Robert A. Heinlein
And a disarmed society is no society at all. It is a Gulag.
Indeed. Greetings from Justine Castreau's "Democratic Peoples' Republic of Canuckistan" where the cops can break down my door at any time of the day or night and take my guns. Without warning, without a warrant and without any accusation; just an anoymous whisper thank you very much.
Heinlein was a lousy sci fi writer, and wasn't he a close friend of whack job LRon Hubbard?
Heinlein was a lousy sci fi writer?!
Only in the same sense that Shakespeare was a bad playwright.
I like classical writing that is uplifting and is inspiring.
Sincere question here -- could you recommend one of your favorites? I am always open to good suggestions.
I always like Heinlein's stuff even if his politics purportedly, were somewhere to the right of Mussolini's... 🤔
BTW did you know L. Ron Hubbard was a disciple of Aliestar Crowley? If you've never heard of "Uncle Aliestar", look up his biography for shits and giggles...😱
I met Heinlein and his wife. Politically speaking, he was a Jeffersonian minarchist, i.e., very small, minimal government strictly limited to specific delegated powers. He supported a strong military (along with private ownership of weapons) but a military that was limited to defensive, NOT aggressive action.
Oh! Regarding Crowley -- if you can find it, look up the time Crowley stayed as a guest of G.I. Gurdjieff. Gurdjieff's parting words (paraphrased) as he sent Crowley off at the train station: "You are an evil, dirty man, dirty on the inside. Never come back to my home, ever again!"
Thanks for the clarification of Heinlein's politics.. Latterly far as the mainstream media is concerned seems unless you're at least some variety of Menshevik, you're a Neonazi scumbag...
I have to say Gurdjieff's parting words to Crowley were a masterpiece of restraint.. Had they lived at the same time Crowley and Marx might have made an interesting gay couple... 🤢
Bingo. I’d rather be tried by 12 than carried by 6. The globalist puppets in Canada are trying to disarm us. Protect your second, neighbour ✊🏻✊🏻✊🏻
You beat me to it; goal is to not be carried by six. Yes, sir. I’m 72 yr old small woman and I won’t be a victim if I can help it. Canada, take care.
Those attacking others are not passive supplicants. And those in charge seem to like them.
Those attacking others need to be placed in prison until they’re too old to continue their anti-social lifestyles. How old is that? Perhaps 80 or above.
We’ll said Jen
At least in America you can do this. In Canada you have to take a course and buy a license to own them, all guns are registered and thanks to Justin all handguns that aren't already purchased are now illegal; the ones you own have to be turned into the police when you die -- even heirlooms -- and finally the police can enter your house at any time without a warrant and seize your guns on nothing more than an anonymous tip.
Oh, and did I forget to mention you have to inform the police and get a letter of permission every time you wish to transport them?
And what has any of this nannystate legislation done about criminal gun use? You guessed it: Nothing.
Didn't you elect and re-elect these people?
Did they? You see the morons in office around the world, you tell me did they elect these morons? In my humble opinion we have false elections everywhere and computers have made it provable and easier to pull off.
I admit to my dying shame that I voted for Justine Castreau -- 𝗼𝗻𝗰𝗲. Never again. (Nor will I vote, ever again, for 𝘢𝘯𝘺 of the lying posturing prats.) Not that it makes any difference. Québec and Ontario keep voting for the puking WEF-ensconced little shit and they always carry the elections.
At this point all I want to have happen is this country to disintegrate and fall into the hands of the Northern Red States.
That last paragraph would rock!
Wouldn't it just? 🙄🤔
I am so sick to death of all our Quisling politicians, all lined up waiting for their turn to suck Klaus Schwab's and Bill Gates' cocks.. they don't give a fuck about me, they don't give a fuck about you, they're only in it for themselves...
I used to be a liberal-minded Canadian Nationalist. Not any more.
You need a license in the US as well and guns are also registered here. As for carry laws, they differ by state and many make you take a class for at least the extra carry permit but in some cases just to get the permit to own a gun. It’s not nearly as lax as our left tries to portray it.
But probably nowhere near as lunatic as Canada.
In the UK, we have almost no gun crime at all: the reason is that people don't own them. Your gun in the wrong hands could kill.
My gun in the wrong hands is why you want to be armed, and own more than one weapon, with quick access in an emergency.
My guns will only 'be in the wrong hands' if I am not vigilant. Guns in the the hands of anyone, is a reason for every person to have the right to own weapons.
If someone breaks into your home with a machete, what will you do? Get your machete and fight it out? Don't be fooled by the tyranny of 'manufactured opinion' and think it through.
I and all my neighbors are fully armed and I've never felt safer.
And how subject were you to vaccine mandates? Try packing a gun with you some time and see if that doesn't inspire thoughts of independence. Liberty. Equality.
Rule #1 : never bring a knife to a gun fight. 🤔🤫
Its fairly obvious that the more guns are around, the more injuries there will be: frankly this kind of atrocity takes place every day in the USA - I honestly have no idea why you put up with it: take the guns away and the death count will drop immediately:
"Two cheerleaders have been shot in a Texas carpark after opening the wrong car door.
The shooting was the third time in a week that young people have become victims of gun crime after making an innocent mistake.
A group of four cheerleaders, who had carpooled, were travelling back from practice in Austin when they pulled into a car park to pick up their own vehicles.
Heather Roth, one of the cheerleaders, opened the door of what she thought was her car, only to find a man in the passenger seat.
Realising her mistake, she climbed into her own car.
Two of the cheerleaders were shot, one was treated at the scene and the other, Payton Washington, was airlifted to hospital where she was reportedly in a critical condition.
Ms Washington's father, Kelan, said doctors removed her spleen and she was stable in the intensive care unit at Dell Seton Medical Center at The University of Texas in Austin.
Hey Rob, respectfully disagree. Here in the USA we have a constitution that guarantees our right to bear arms. Criminals don't have that right, guns don't commit crime, criminals do. If that criminal was in New York city or other liberal cities he'd be out of jail without posting any bail in 24hrs. We just need to keep these criminals in jail. Too bad the libtards won't do that 😕.
The US has lots of guns and lots of vaccine mandates, what’s the connection?
My point is that the unarmed are the compliant vaccinated. The armed citizens largely are not. There is a connection.
Free men. Free thinkers.
If someone broke into my home with a machete, I would smile, offer him a whisky and discuss philosophy all night.
But then, I have strolled through more ghettoes than most people: it is not the machete that is the problem, it is the damaged mind. Find out what people are searching for, and go half way with them. What you will find is a frightened, small boy, who has lost his way.
if he wants your wallet: cheerfully give him your wallet, He needs it far more than you do. And you can cancel the cards when he leaves ;-)
There were three of them. They tied the parents up, assaulted the children in front of the parents, murdered the father and mother, left the children wounded but alive.
All this for kicks. Too bad he didn't have any whiskey though, huh?
You don’t have guns (altho you do have a govt that arrests you for the ‘wrong’ FB posts) but your London (knife) murder rate surpasses NYC’s!!
The London knife murders are all young men killing each other because of gangs and drugs. They are so wrapped up in their petty little worlds they don't even see the rest of us and don't even seem to know they are in one of the (supposed) great capital cities of the world. They are generally of West Indian heritage, often without fathers, usually with very poor educations and with little chance of being employed should they make it to adulthood. Sadly, nobody in positions of power seem to care. For "normal" people, London (and the UK in general) is a safe place.
As usual the statistics are useless in coming to clarity or the reality of what is happening. Apples to oranges.
Actually this is no longer true: I don't have the stats to hand, but my impression is that most knife crime in London is by the sons of more recent arrivals from Africa and the Middle East - struggling to find an identity and purpose, and battling for territory to sell drugs.
Never argue this stuff with a brit (not capitalized on purpose) they're snots and will only look down their noses at you/us.
Is the right answer.
Generally speaking, unless you are a Harvard graduate, you would be wise not to argue with a Brit: we are rather good at being correct, most of the time.
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 "Right most of the time." You're a bunch of narcissistic ass hats! 😂🤣🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣
Sure, it worked for us for the last 900 years or so, and so why quit when we are winning ;-)
Well, London is 450 miles away.. and a different country. Violent crime has dropped a lot here in Glasgow - we used to be the murder capital: no more!
When World War Two broke out, Great Britain begged for Americans to send their personally owned firearms, and Americans responded by the millions. Those rifles and handguns helped the subjects (note that I do not say "citizens") of GB train, fight, and ultimately survive, the war. Of course MILLIONS of European civilians died for lack of weapons to defend themselves, but strangely, those who support disarming free people never count those lost lives as part of the cost of disarmament. Apparently the gun confiscation crowd does not count Jews, gays, Jehovah's Witnesses, and political dissidents, as human lives.
After the war, GB destroyed the weapons which private Americans had sent to them. You would think the least they could have done is to return them to the US, but no. Easier to destroy them and make sure no commoners got their hands on any of them. No sense taking a chance that the class of people with saddles on their backs be able to stand up to the class born with spurs.
It is disgusting what cowards the British have become.
Disgusting what too many people everywhere have become.
Only Cowards carry guns.
Reasonable men and women, use reason as their secret weapon.
It works for us: the reason criminals do not carry guns in Britain is because neither do our Police.
I fear your logic is flawed.
If every person in the United States were armed and trained, do you think that armed criminals would view the entire populace as easy targets?
Of course not.
Restrictive gun laws only stop law-abiding citizens from protecting themselves.
No gun law will ever stop a criminal.
I have no need to protect myself, here in Scotland, because there are no conceivable threats.
I often forget to lock my front door: many Scots don't bother. They argue, not unreasonably, that they own very little of value anyway, and if they get burgled, they have insurance, so who cares?
Take that strategy of deterrence through the threat of violence to its logical endpoint.
Imagine that your local police had access to helicopter gunships, mines, nuclear weapons.
Would this prevent crime?
I suspect not!
Then consider what happens when a four year old child finds your gun, and decides to play with it.
Like all responsible gun owners, I know where my gun is at all times.
It's folly to compare your country's culture and laws to the U.S.
What Oscar Wilde said about America, the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without the intervening stage of civilization!
The koolaid in the US politics is unfortunately heavily spiked! It is really quite remarkable that people are still standing with the odious and totally selfish con-artist Trump and all his false promises! After his casinos, many badly run businesses, the fraudulent Trump U.; his management of the pandemic including Operation Warp Speed! It really is quite remarkable and they want to train teenagers in the use of lethal force! We should be weeping over all the deaths instead of acting like coke heads, with zero remorse or conscience!
"Only Cowards carry guns."
Spoken like a truly domesticated slave, a child who relies on the adults for protection.
"Reasonable men and women, use reason as their secret weapon."
Secret? No! It's my first choice, but reason only works on the reasonable. Having a weapon is for use in defending myself (and family) from those who choose NOT to be reasonable.
Your understanding of risk, is probably even worse than your mastery of martial arts.
The stats prove that your chance of your firearm injuring a member of your own family are greater than the chance of saving their lives by successfully deterring an assailant.
And your understanding of statistics and the nature of proof are even worse than your mastery of history and democide.
Which brings me back to my first comment and the part that people such as yourself never respond to. Here is that part again: "Of course MILLIONS of European civilians died for lack of weapons to defend themselves, but strangely, those who support disarming free people never count those lost lives as part of the cost of disarmament. Apparently the gun confiscation crowd does not count Jews, gays, Jehovah's Witnesses, and political dissidents, as human lives."
Europe lost six million civilians because they were disarmed and could not defend themselves. As I expected, you completely discount their deaths. Why do you fail to even mention them? Do you think they were human?
Looks like the gun nuts are out in force insistent that their overkill "solutions" of extreme force or threat are the only good ones! No one ever changed their minds!
THE wrong hands are people treated by anti-depressants !
See this op-ed:
https://amidwesterndoctor.substack.com/p/a-major-news-network-has-finally
On the contrary, many gun owners seem to shoot first, ask questions later.
People panic - they seem to be unable to think straight: By George Wright
BBC News
A man has been charged with second-degree murder in the US after he allegedly shot and killed a 20-year-old woman as the car she was in mistakenly drove up the man's driveway.
Kaylin Gillis was with three other people in New York state on Saturday.
They accidentally drove into the driveway of Kevin Monahan in the town of Hebron, police say.
As the driver was leaving, Mr Monahan, 65, allegedly opened fire on the vehicle, hitting Ms Gillis.
Can you legally shoot before asking questions?
"This is a very sad case of some young adults who were looking for a friend's house and ended up at this man's house who decided to come out with a firearm and discharge it," Washington Country Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy told a news conference.
The area is rural, and the driveways are poorly lit at night. None of the group had exited the vehicle or attempted to enter Mr Monahan's house before he allegedly opened fire, Mr Murphy said.
In the US, we have continued gun violence because politicians fail to put the perpetrators in prison for life. Violent criminals are repeatedly let out of prison, and then recommit similar or worse violent acts. It’s a circular problem because of the abject failure of hacks who are elected to protect us fail at their jobs. The people with the ability to learn will avoid such crimes. Those who do not should be permanently caged.
By Nomia Iqbal in Kansas City & Max Matza in Seattle
BBC News
An 84-year-old man in the US state of Missouri has turned himself in to police after shooting a teenager who mistakenly rang his doorbell.
Andrew Lester was bailed after being charged with first-degree assault and armed criminal action, both felonies.
The white homeowner allegedly shot Ralph Yarl, 16, who is black, once in the head and once in the arm last Thursday night in Kansas City.
The boy survived, and doctors say they have no idea how.
By George Wright
BBC News
A man has been charged with second-degree murder in the US after he allegedly shot and killed a 20-year-old woman as the car she was in mistakenly drove up the man's driveway.
Kaylin Gillis was with three other people in New York state on Saturday.
They accidentally drove into the driveway of Kevin Monahan in the town of Hebron, police say.
As the driver was leaving, Mr Monahan, 65, allegedly opened fire on the vehicle, hitting Ms Gillis.
Can you legally shoot before asking questions?
"This is a very sad case of some young adults who were looking for a friend's house and ended up at this man's house who decided to come out with a firearm and discharge it," Washington Country Sheriff Jeffrey Murphy told a news conference.
The area is rural, and the driveways are poorly lit at night. None of the group had exited the vehicle or attempted to enter Mr Monahan's house before he allegedly opened fire, Mr Murphy said.
Not sure if you're trying to make a point or just reporting on the danger of letting an elderly man with possible cognitive difficulties keep a gun. After a certain age, should there be some sort of evaluation to determine physical and mental capabilities for gun ownership? They do that now in several states for driver's licenses. An interesting question for voters and the courts. Alternatively, was the young man who was shot actually "just minding his business" or was there some kind of threat involved? A recording doorbell camera or a witness would be helpful.
Statistics show that states with stand your ground laws have seen a rise in homicides by 10% or higher.
John Roman, director of the Center on Public Safety and Justice at NORC at the University of Chicago, authored a study examining 53,019 cases involving stand your ground laws.
He told the BBC that they "promote violence".
"People feel like they have an added protection that makes them more likely to shoot where they wouldn't have shot without that perceived protection," he said.
It also "tragically" increases racial disparities in the US criminal justice system, he said.
Data from the report showed that, when the shooter is white and the victim is black, the white shooter is 10 times more likely to have their actions deemed justified than when the shooter is black and the victim is white.
The study found that, in cases where stand your ground laws featured, 11.4% of white-on-black homicides were ruled as justified, compared to just 1.2% of black-on-white homicides. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-65282084
Yes, that was always my mantra. Yet, being slayn by some almighty totalitarianism "police forces" controlled state is not my favorite.
Find something in between.
Sparing lives.
Those of the victims of totalitarian police control forces as well as those of the police as well.
Making conflict unnecessary as anyone gets a mirror rammed up his face telling him/her to behave to some "norm" or "etiquette". See this excellent article on how people can co-operate when they become more people than our ancient brains can "capture".:
https://roundingtheearth.substack.com/p/the-honor-and-etiquette-of-destroying
Anything built with capability to kill eventually will do so.
I understand your feelings and motives.
I understand that the armed part of US prevents totalitarian dark forces move too quickly.
But I also understand that it rises need for „special forces“ that outgun any private person defending the first amendment: this is a cat-and-mouse game with some aspects of hare and hedgehog. The weapon industry „is already there“. More precisely, the banking-pharma-BigData-Military complex that all went to bed together. On whose behalf?
Yah drones are one example and very lethal, I understand nowadays you can be targeted and killed through your phone.
And your car, etc..
Yet I hope that > 8 billion people will come up with something better than "striking capability" weapons.
I want more "defensive only" weapons. Like shields, and electronics neutralising tricks. The things you only get when DIRECTLY funding "defensive only" weapons, so you never get by the huge amounts the military complex eats up for nothing but future suffering and misery and doom of mankind.
Imagine we find some gas or fluid making technology of totalitarian control useless.
Just like corroding. I sometimes ask myself if that is the reason inorganic antiseptics are so ... hacked upon, discredited (they solve many problems, without being some "wonder". They just do their job. And let anything iron RUST very intesive. ;))
Now imagine H2O2 indeed lets GHO (yes, Graphene Hydroxide) rust. Yes, insides your body, insides the wide therapeutic band (all inorganic antiseptics offer). Between minimal effective dose and the upper limit, for me, being NOAEL, known for all of them by toxicology, especially for those used for water treatment like CIO2 and NaHCIO.
You just have to find some "treatment regime" or timing that states: use 5ml 2% H2O2 as inhaled (pH 6.5!), then wait 2 hours, then do your Vitamin-C and OPC cure to replenish your anti-oxidants".
Done.
Imagine someone trying out H2O2 or any other oxidans to be used on weapon technology. Add some tenside, to remove protective oil and get to the core of the iron. And it GNAWS on the iron. How much use will some corroded military technology be of?
Then use it for LIFE.
You can de-infestate the GO / GHO.. nanoparticles even on soil.
Afterwards, you re-apply some Effective Microorganisms to help the soil to re-establish some symbiiontic biome.
I hope I could give some more precise hints on what I mean by "arms NOT intended to kill".
Keep you fire arm. I'm a quite precise shooter, always did it as some "meditation", and the shooting club of my father always wanted to have me as a member. But I was inspired too pacifistically.
I now regret that partially.
But not the insights I have drawn from the other side of the mirror ;=)
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Killed througgh your phone:
And your car. And in future, any "internet of thing" thing. Including your chipped body.
Had an episode where car quit service, throttling power in the night, due to "electronic power control problem", switched off-on to no avial several times.
And then I orderd siri to shut off data links (I did a macro in short cuts, you can place as some icon on one screen, then being siri reachable). After "locking out" the network, and restart of car, it was all ok. Before going offline with iPhone, restart had no effect, and EPC problem remained (VW/Skoda technology). OK, I did "only" try it 4x before staring at the phone and thinking "heck, just posted some anti-groupthink thing" about Chab@d Lub@witch). The black hats always around political leaders like Trump, Biden, the Queen Family in GB, behind putin and the ukrainian nazis, behind the WEF, the ones the Epoch Times means by "the devils", in their books they advertise, for now making much more sense to me, etc.
The ones that think they have to "help" the apocalyse to take place in their generation, which, they (falsely) believe justifies ALL slaughtery and unforgiveably sins, even encourages them to be perpetraitors in ANY unforgiveable sin, has to be sped-up and driven-to by ALL means, even if it means murder of countless souls. Very striking "un-ethnics" I deem...
Interesting thing is they stive this path very deterministically since something like 1500. Watched a video on yt on this on DE, sorry, "Die geheime Geschichte (1)", wie eine auserwählte Sekte die Welt kaperte", (How an "chosen" sect captured the world). Try the sub-titles.
See this gnostic piece of old papyros translation effort:
https://magie--tantrique--gaienne-com.translate.goog/2018/04/16/tzaddik-et-larnaque-de-lintelligence-artificielle/?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=de&_x_tr_hl=de&_x_tr_pto=wapp#more-971 (analysing the modern KI of sophia as transhumanistic as old as biblical scripts referring to Melchizedek also being "not of flesh and not ageing"
or this analysing political journal also connecting the dots:
https://www.politico.com/search?s=&userInitiated=true&q=chab@d
We can only try to "heal" those people, form their "aberration" from old beliefs to some perverted form of collective sinning.
It is very much connected with the suffering of narcissitic psychopaths suffering from deprived empathy capabilites.
And as we know, two things have to fall in one time-place-moment:
- the insight of the victim to need therapy
- someone helping him or her with true love
Yet... it is soooo difficult to love a narcissitic person that has NOT gained the insight it needs therapy...
Until then, all the "divide et impera" traits of the seeds of the ones I described above have their full potential of influence on any lost soul in your family...
Let us pray for wisdom and humility and love and ... survival.
Through your phone? Wow! How?
I’m not sure? But would imagine frequencies , resonance, millimeter wave?
My home region has long been very peaceful and civil but in recent years local police have started to take a dreadfully passive stance when it comes to enforcing some laws and crime is rising substantially. Although I still doubt I'll run into any trouble, and though it is something of a nuisance, I too have started carrying pepper spray and my sidearm routinely especially when I'm with loved ones in public. I was MOS 95B in the Army (military police) as a young man so being armed is nothing new, I just didn't feel it necessary as a civilian until recently. Government agency behavior in some areas of our nation is not acceptable.
I’m with you Jen! But have not yet purchased a firearm. We have shotguns, but no handgun yet. I’ve practiced using friend’s at a gun range, but have a hard time loading the magazine due to arthritis in my thumbs. Is yours hard to load?
Use I-RECOVER ( FLCCC.net/protocols )on your arthritis as well, and DMSO and inorganic antiseptics, topically (DMSO drags in drugs, like Arnica, limit to 10%, or you'll bleed, as it is such an efficient blood thinner, and DMSO is anti-inflammatory as well) as well as systemically. Safe, effective, cheap, available, self-TRANSPARENT.
All the properties most BigVaxPharMafia drugs lack.
See Dr. Morton Walker, DMSO, nature's healer, very nice literature list as well.
There is only one drawback, you smell of garlic-mussels by using it.
(My kid smells doses like half a mililiter, so no chance of " I just used some ointment" excuse. Take your family hard: do you mind me stinking if I'm gettin healed with it? YES NO?
Only cure: give your family a homeopathic dose of some drops. Then they will not complain, and themselves be not smelling "complainable".
Or take some days off for the cure, it takes 2 days to wear out.
THE real drawback why not all use it is explained in Dr. Walkers book:
The former chief of FDA freaked out on DMSO, as he "could not control it". As it is both a drug and a technical solvant.
So you see, nothing has changed since 1060+, we are still run by some cartells, and the mighty ones behind still want to lead us all to abyss.
Wearing their black hats and pretending to be very to the lore.
Well, with my fingers aching from chronic inflammation since the shots especially, I rather like the magzines you slide in and done. Instead of fibbling with single rounds.
But in the end, I try NOT to get involved in weapons and find ways to protect loved ones we yet do not see.
AGAINST WHAT? is the first question.
- Blackout (wood stove, 1kWp solar and a battery for fridge),
- famine (plant linseeds),
- new released viruses from Level-4 labs (inorganic antiseptics, multi-modal plant therapy),
- new waves of DIS-information (you already read here, try convincing more)
- Internet down: do local copies of all relevant content like text books to train the young, from physics to biology, from covid to zikka, try to get up and running a radio based "small internet" like LoRaWan to replace internet when it is down, to order medicne, fuel, and get a short mesage to relatives far away.
- EMP burst from solar eruption (some years to go), doing 50kV/m^2
While you are at it, place filters and overvoltage protection for 150kV/m^2, as this is the strenghs of fields for human provoked EMPs... Ask your local power supplier if it placed EMP protection at the transformation stations. If not, ask how long it things it takes to replace ALL power transoformers of a country after som 50kV/m^2 EMP occured. And it will occur. So 1% costs now against "end of modern life" later.
After this long list, at the end, there comes someone I could drive away with a shotgun from my grounds.
If waving it at officials feeling they are on the right side of justice, as they always do, I'm dead anyways.
And you are ready to gun down another human being and spill their blood on the ground when non-lethal means would be a lot more effective?
I keep meaning to do that.
I’m not a “Fundamentalist” or “Legalist” but verses like this provide me/our land with insight, direction and comfort:
“But understand this, that in the last days there will come times of difficulty. For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,”
2 Timothy 3:1-4
“if my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”
2 Chronicles 7:14
I am pretty much a "fundamentalist" and read the Bible through every year....different translations including the most important one IMO Youngs Literal. Problem is in the US most organized religion has been infiltered with Zionist dogma (on purpose just do the research especially by Whitney Webb). The last days were when the Bible was written (even Hebrews states they were in the last days) and the last days hasn't been going on for 2000+ years. We live in the Kingdom NOW with the power of our Sovereign Almighty God in our hearts (we are the temple now).
I don't know what "Bible" you read, but the actual Bible, from God, indicates that He is a Zionist. Try looking up Genesis 12:3. This is why real Christians, and most conservatives, are Zionists.
That promise was made to Abraham a Gentile at the time. And by the way I already elaborated what "Bible I read". I use all approved translations and use proper hermeneutics.
The promise was made to Abraham and his seed - the Jews.
"approved translations" LOLOL I prefer the original language of God.
Sorry, @d0|f, but the rolcon isn't working.
Romans 9:6. "For they are not all Israel who are of Israel"
What does that mean? God never promised unconditionally to each offspring of Abraham covenantal blessings. God never intended that all of the nation Israel would be redeemed. Within national Israel is "true Israel," or "spiritual Israel." The nation was chosen to be a vehicle of blessing to the world, but not all within the nation were chosen to salvation. The nation was elected to privilege, but only individuals are elected to salvation. Most Jews believed that all who are born of Jewish blood are saved by birth. They felt secure because they were children of Abraham and therefore in the covenant of promise.
Oh...BTW I forgot to mention....please let me know where you came into possession of the original manuscripts of the Bible. I'd pay you $$$$ to have them.
Actually yes he did. “All Israel will be saved” of course He also said it will only be a third that’s left by then. It doesn’t matter what Judaism is teaching, those who will be saved will do so by faith in Jesus when the time comes, through the experience of the 70th week of Daniel. A time that is fast approaching. And yes, we’ve been in the last days since the resurrection. God’s timing is not the same as ours. Compare a couple millennia to eternity and maybe that will help you.
Kingdom now theology is so screwed up. How are you enjoying your millennial period of peace on earth ruled by Jesus from His throne in Jerusalem? Lol. It’s so perfect isn’t it?
Give it time, you’ll see the truth. It’s coming soon. So is His return for a literal thousand year reign on earth. Buckle up buttercup. It gets worse before it gets better.
🤣 You’re reading the fake version.
"The last days" are usually thought to be the "end of the world," but the arrogance and brutality described in the Bible equally applies to the end of any nation or civilization. If Western countries do not "turn from their wicked ways" the world will go on without us. We will just live in barbarian savagery while China and Russia run the world without us. We can still alter that future if we have the political will to reject Democrats/Socialists, restore the rule of law, and imprison criminals instead of celebrating them. If we fail in that cause then the violent scenes from social media are just a glimmer of what lies ahead for all of us.
most citizens the majority are fine people , its our governments that have gotten out of control
Thank you. Nice post. 'IF' is a HUGE word. From my perspective, I believe we have gone far beyond any possibility of, 'IF'... perhaps I am just too old. True repentance seems to be too much for most. I try not to judge, as I am absolutely not qualified for that. The path forward looks ominous. I continue to pray that I am wrong.
We press onward.
Absent some divine intervention, American civilization will collapse within 5-10 years. It will happen sooner if the Democrats are not completely removed from power in 2024. Savages already roam our streets and have destroyed once beautiful cities. The Democrats have delegitimized authority as "racist" and glorified ignorance and violence. They encourage the most hideous acts of perversion against children, and have turned our great universities into madhouses. They have opened our borders to barbarian hordes and preach their gospel of hate from their television pulpits and the White House. They have turned hospitals into charnel houses, law courts into circus shows, and scientific laboratories into weapons of mass destruction. The rot is far advanced but it is our duty to try to stop it no matter the odds.
When you and I attended school there were proportional consequences to bad behavior. If a student hit a teacher or administrator, they were expelled and charged with battery. Today the little monsters are portrayed as victims of a racist system, and the teacher or administrator are "educated/indoctrinated" how to speak with the little monsters. This has persisted past schools where violent criminals are released without bail and often their actions are treated as misdemeanors in our larger cities. BF Skinner was correct: A behavior that's rewarded (as in ignored) is repeated. One that receives a negative consequence is not.
Amen
I take issue with the concluding allusion to "what takes place when a society’s institutional order breaks down, and humans return to their archaic, tribal, and warlike animal state. " As if, we are innately "warlike animal-s". I take issue, and believe that we are collectively, being manipulated into a state of hyper-stress that expresses in violent ways, towards self and others.
I, personally, experience physical and mental distress from wireless radiation. I am hyper-aware when I am around all wireless- phones, towers, wifi, smart-meters, etc. Does not matter if it's 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G-- each level affects different functions and parts of my body. I used to be able to tell what make of cellphone a person had near me. I can still tell an iPhone from an Android.
With enough exposure, I become depressed, anxious, sleepless, angry, lashing out at others, and on bad days- suicidal. I believe these effects are being felt by many more than are aware. Add to the wireless smog of exposure 24/7 constant electro-magnetic radiation pulsing, unhealthy bodies, poor nutrition, lack of overall wellbeing, and many are headed for emotional turmoil and disaster.
"I don't feel anything" "I've never heard of this issue" "It's all in her/his head" "That'd ridiculous, our agencies would be making sure this is safe, and they say it is" - Right, just like the Jab is safe, just like GMO foods are safe, cancer can't be healed with diet, Jan 6th was caused by Trump, Ivermectin is harmful, no one has died from the c-19 shot, Anthony Fauci cares about US, and just like all the myriad of "Truths" we are told everyday.
What is the difference you notice that enables you to tell between iPhone and Android? Truly curious!
There is a lot to the effects of these things. More and more studies are proving that. Sadly it’s just never going to be widely known or believed bc those who control it control everything. I think it’s called hyperelectrosensitivity or something like that. I have some sleeplessness issues as well and also, I can hear electricity. It’s been several years now. I’m the only person I know that’s happy when the power goes out for a short time due to a storm or something. It gets so quiet and peaceful. There are ways to combat these things to a point. I use a faraday bag for electronics. Unplug anything in your home that doesn’t need to stay plugged in when not in use. Vacation off grid. Even unplug your WiFi system at night to sleep. I wish you relief.
Thanks Dakota. You are correct- EHS is one label for this affliction- (electro-hypersensitivity) however, a newer label is EMS- electro-magnetic sensitivity. This new label- EMS- is more accurate since people can be sensitive to different bands of the electromagnetic spectrum, like yourself being able to hear electricity. btw- I love when the electricity goes out!
I hardwired my desktop computers- we use ethernet cords and a hardwired router, so no wifi here. I also sleep in a canopy that blocks most all signals. I also wear a tunic and hat in public that both block signals.
People can check out 2 sites I trust- 4ehsbyehs.com in Israel for clothing, hats, shielding, etc and also SafeLivingTecnologies.com in Canada.
If that is the case, then why isn't Taiwan (practically swimming in 5G) having a Great American Freak Out (TM) right now? Take as long as you wish with your answer.
The glaring contrast between the way people actually live in this country and the relentless random violence shown in the media in their other view of this country serves to expose the latter's constant divide-and-conquer message: Races, please hate each other. Genders, please hate each other. Parents and genital mutilation enthusiasts, please hate each other.
Thanks John. Excellent post. Part of the problem is that there are a lot of people who give the madness on video an audience. I used to wonder back in the early terrorist days, after 9-11, why the news networks devoted so much time to terrorism. Once you insist of taking God out of the picture, things go downhill rapidly. Peace. :-)
And how did the controlled demolition begin? Read and understand Diana West's "American Betrayal". Peace.
I have heard that theory before by others. . . like the CIA offing JFK, it is so hard to take in. I understand the likelihood of it being truth but cannot bear to open my mind to the facts at this point. Once you accept it one can barely breathe.
True because the reality is horrifying but if there is a chance to save ourselves we must see it, find courage and act now.
I can relate
Indeed. Read "The Devils Chessboard" by Talbot. It is an amazing look at the horror that was/is the Dulles CIA. Every terrorist act has been deep state Machiavellian machinations devised by a sleepless malevolence.
I agree. A very difficult read. If every American read it and understood it, we could make positive change. Peace.
John, I have to say, glad I am not subscribed to any social media-- specially, after hearing about this Trans-axer. It seems Burke's description is too high level for this particular form of chaos. I cannot provide better fodder but the French Revolution is certainly a starting point example . . . I pray the USA is not the end point.
Mass communications mal-usage of propaganda is the pernicious root to be removed or replaced.
What really bothers me more about the Twitter feed is the fact that the phone user chose to record rather than intervene.
The axe attack happened in Australia in 2017 https://www.news.com.au/national/courts-law/she-nearly-cut-my-head-in-half-evie-amati-axe-victim-ben-rimmer-breaks-silence/news-story/bc240cd9c7833474c1051b67a125906d
It was definitely big news at the time here
Edit: happened 2017, resentenced 2019 now I'm fake news holy smokes!
Many thanks for drawing my attention to this. I have added a correction to online version of the post, though it's too late to correct the E-mail version.
I got your back! We are not fake news like them!
The fact that this criminal man is referred to as a woman only reinforces the fact that our subservience to this insanity is a form of Stockholm Syndrome. Nothing will change until we develop the courage to confront it. Even the victims here are playing the game. I have lost all sympathy for those who are willing to play along.
I agree in SPADES! It angers me to no end to hear Fox news hosts and others who "know" better to not call a "spade" a . . . guy.
Yeah, you know, it almost does not matter where these days. . . The effect travels around the world in a fraction of a second. The mass media communicators know this and use it to high advantage.
I believe that facts matter.
Thanks for pointing out the date. Actually the time stamped date at the beginning of the video was 2017. The article made me think it recently happened, causing me to feel more upset, defeated, fearful, etc.
Changed! No fake news around here!
How many of these adolescents and young adults are on psychotropic drugs?
Truth also on violent video games, now where I live violent meetings among youngsters ending in lynching.....Tahiti and Bora-bora come to paradise to get slaughtered
Psychotropic drugs since grade school, video games extolling violence since grade school, and a government that practices violence at every turn, and a culture that promotes war and violence. We reap what has been sown for decades at least
Fortunately, I don't watch TV or mainstream media, nor Twitter, except when directed to a specific link to watch/read something. These events are heinous. I watched a man dressed like a woman scream obscenities to the cashier in a store, saying, "It's maam," and then smashing some merchandise before leaving the store. There are some deranged people out there and the 'acceptance' of the whole trans scene is aiding and abetting this.
Our species evolved in small nomadic tribes of up to 150 individuals. We evolved in the natural environment where our daily fight for survival was against animal predators or natural geological or weather events with the occasional confrontation with other nomadic tribes. Clearly it worked well enough for us to survive relatively strong and healthy and mentally stable. The intimacy of the tribe meant that children were well cared for, women were honoured for their life-giving and nurturing capabilities, elders were respected for their knowledge and experience and men provided the physical protection and material needs such as weapons and shelter.
Fast forward to our current civilization and nobody feels safe, loved, protected, honoured or respected. Families are being torn to shreds. Alpha males at the top dominate and control the population while extracting wealth from their labour and concentrating power ever more tightly in the hands of fewer and fewer people while surveilling and controlling every move out of perpetual fear of uprisings. This is not a functional model for human culture.
Socialism, communism and capitalism have all had their turn and have all failed to provide for the needs of the vast majority of human society. Yes, capitalism SEEMS to have created more wealth, but that's only because the discovery of fossil fuels temporarily enabled the extraction of massive amounts resources beyond our daily needs. Since we live on a finite planet (SURPRISE!) and resources, especially fossil fuels, are not infinite, perhaps it's time to reflect on how we might return to a more localized, less hierarchical, more humane and livable culture similar to how we evolved. It will mean giving up all the comforts of 'civilization' but these comforts were are created at great expense to the planet, our communities and to ourselves.
In summary, there will be no great expansion of civilization to outer space and the stars if we annihilate future generations as we can see clearly happening. Our so-called 'leaders' are parasites and aim to cull the human species so that they can take the leftovers from this culture's orgy of consumption. You choose.
John, Twitter uses algos, and it's a black box of who-knows-really-whom trying to influence your thinking, and keep you glued there, endlessly scrolling and clicking. What you actually see is only in modest part a function of whom you have elected to follow. Perhaps I state the obvious. I really loathe Twitter. Yes, I used to be on there (under anorher name), a long time ago. Once I understood about the algos I walked away and will never return.
The thing that has changed is that so many people are taking psych drugs. The majority of perpetrators of this kind of “motiveless” violence are taking these drugs, where the medical history is known.
Interesting. I'm a positive guy and was a positive kid, but I always knew humans would do themselves in. The nature of the degradation and implosion is what has surprised me most.
John, I began witnessing this in NYC several years ago--but there was a motive element--robbery. Mostly grab & run, very little gun or horrid violence. It’s now an epidemic, escalated during covid. Instead of a random acts of kindness culture, it’s now random acts of violence, all too often resulting in murder. There’s definitely a political component--the leftist funded BLM, Antifa & now funded trans violent activism. The question: what type of personality chooses group thuggery? There’s some kind of innate rage disorder. Drugs involved? I don’t know, but twitter is filled with this--these are not isolated--happening daily in the US. I left NYC March of 2020. Will never go back. I have friends & family in Chicago, San Francisco..all want out.
I agree. Perhaps it’s what happens when you give every child a prize and there are no winners or losers. They eventually learn that life doesn’t work that way. One shouldn’t experience losing for the first time when 18 years old.
BTW, if you voted Democrat please leave your voting affiliation in NY. It leads to the same nonsense everywhere.
And as I've long noted, every time a senseless act of mass violence--there are hundreds this last year, sometimes more than one a day---the propagandist news hosts will always add "authorities are investigating the MOTIVE" as if the senseless brutal killins could possibly be a complicated plot out of Agatha Christie or other detective novels. Instead the newspersons should be asking what kind of culture leads to this senseless violent chaos, numbed as we are to the torture and killing of millions of foreign people who we've dehumanized as "enemies" and ingrained upon kids as young as 5 years via violent video games upon to serve as "all volunteer" U.S. military recruitment tools, killing ordered by our "leaders" as the main way of solving our collective problems.
Looking at videos on Twitter or Instagram always begs the question “How different was crime before we had social media?” You are seeing the acts of violence because someone put them there where it is easily accessible. I grew up in the 60’s and there were no cell phones, social media etc., so no way for me to know what was going on elsewhere. I’m pretty sure we were not aware of the extent of crime. However, I did grow up in Chicago and know for fact that “hundreds of teenagers” never stormed the downtown area. That had to do with adequate policing, support of police, and an intact family unit. Marxism, Socialism, and Communism are all different in certain ways, but they all have certain things in common, like destroying the family unit, lack of religious belief, and stratifying society in a manner to squelch creativity, freedom of speech, etc. This did not happen overnight. It has been going on for years, such that when BLM and “abortion on demand” even if you are 9 months pregnant became a point of discussion, it was not outrageous. Younger people who are acting out with horrific crimes already have some mental instability. What is different now is the knowledge that society is literally aiding and abetting them acting out their urges as there are no repercussions, poor access to Mental Health care, a general state of anxiety, and they were educated in public schools that do not honor the rights of the individual.
Cell phones facilitate easy flash mobs and coordination.