An employee with no motive found shooting and killing people at work. He was then shot dead in a shootout with cops.
When will America stop being known for mass shootings? What a bad place to have a family imo.
Don't know why the article mentions a female pastor though but gonna ignore her since she's not biblical...
www.nytimes.com/2019/06/01/us/virginia-beach-shooting.htmlLet me try and put this into a wider context.
There is a bridge a few hundred km from where I live in South Africa.
Loads of people have committed suicide by jumping off it.
So why do they do it?
People follow patterns.
In the U.S. shootings occur because
people are just following that pattern.
In Europe, football hooligans beat each other to death
but in the US this almost never occurs.
In South Africa 10 000 people die from drunk driving every year.
Half of those are just innocent bystanders.
So it is effectively murder-suicide little different from a shooter.
In the middle-east its a 'suicide bomber'.
In Singapore they jump from a sky-scraper,
and in ancient Japan it was a sword to the gut. Seppuku.
So the nature of HOW these tragedies occur is actually unimportant.
If the shooter had been a South African he would have got drunk
and had a head-on collision, and would not even be in a local newspaper.
It would be written off as an 'accident'.
So the death-instinct (thanatos) can be studied irrespective
of the mode of its event. One way to subvert these sorts of problems
is simply that there needs to be a place where people can go
to feel safe and secure. A mental hospital is ideal, but stigma,
and capitalist mindset has made such folk rejects.
Who is going to pay for it?
That needs to change with high-profile examples of successful
people who have been through the mental health process.
The media needs to not go into a frenzy at each of these events.
They really are inadvertently encouraging it.
How many people die from drunk-driving in the US?
I do not know for certain, but I suspect it is WAY more than
from shooting. So printing stories of successful mental health
events takes up how much of the media?
Less than 1% by comparison?
There actually was tell-tale signs in the shooter.
He had been involved in numerous conflicts recently,
was facing 'disciplinary' hearings and was an ex-soldier.
PTSD is certainly obvious even from reading a few articles.
People just do not care about one another.
No doubt he was about to lose his job.
Is it possible to 'save' everyone? No.
Is it possible to be more gentle and caring. Sure.
But for some. It makes no difference.
They have their demons.
They refuse to face them.
And their fears manifest as pathology.
This is often termed 'tunnel vision', where people
can see no other option other than the stereotype
which they know well. A gun-fight? A car-crash?
What if the only image in their narrowed vision
is a monastery offering understanding and hope?
Who is going to pay for it?
Add up the cost of all these tragedies.
You are already paying for it.
