Pearl Jam: Jeremy

Songfacts: Pearl Jam: Jeremy

Jeremy was not a mass shooter, but a troubled kid who committed suicide. The song still works. 

President Trump's speech yesterday was well done. 

There is no easy answer to address this problem. Many on the left want to restrict guns as a response, but the sort of restrictions required to end mass shootings (beyond violating the 2nd Amendment) would be so draconian that it would likely cause more harm than good. And guess what, armed citizens do stop mass shooters.  And as noted by CBD at AoSHQ, if you magically removed all the guns you would not magically stop the violence (just change it). 

It is not guns and rifles that cause these shootings, it is something else that is deeper and more disturbing. We have Bernie Bros attacking Republicans playing softball. We have the Dayton shooting which involved a Bernie-Warren supporter. We have El Paso and Gilroy, where those shooters were on some sort of twisted white supremacy angle. We have other shootings less about politics than social standing at schools. Then again, there are also shootings motivated by religious extremism. 

The motivation often appears secondary, however, to the impluse to grab a gun for notoriety. While it was a girl in the Boomtown Rats song, the vast majority of shooters tend to be male (often young) but in the case of the Scalise shooting and Mandalay Bay Las Vegas shooting middle aged.  

We need to stop giving attention to the shooters (stop putting their pictures up and repeating their names). They want individual attention because they are (often) omega losers. They want notarity.  Don't give it to them. I am not supporting 1st Amendment restrictions either. Media can voluntarily show a bit of discretion. You can report a story without glamourizing or drawing attention to the shooter.  

Instapundit: Spengler: No one lives matter, that is why there are mass shootings, CNN to host anti-gun show trial, Dana Loesch is a class act, Media Fake News, An Opinion on Gun Control, Beto and NY Post making no sense, Roger Simon: From El Paso to Antifa to LA, Bernie Bro at Dayton?, Trump offers condolences: Hate has no place, Yes, they do want to take our guns, Media and Politicians Don't Get It, and Good Guy with a Gun 

Rush Limbaugh: Democrats fundraise off shooting, I dread these days, because the Leftist attacks are always the same, Callers weigh in on the causes of mass shootings, Killer's manifesto on climate change, and Liberals turn on one of their their favorite scientists

TOM: Texas Psycho Killer’s Parents Claim They Taught Him ‘Love, Kindness … Tolerance’, 8/8 = Hitler? ‘Remember, These Are the People Who Tell Us Trump Is Crazy’,  and The poison fruit of radical seeds.

Legal Insurrection: Dayton shooters supported Elizabeth Warren and hated Trump and ICE, Trump condemns Racism, Bigotry, and White Supremacism, and Mass shooting in El Paso and Dayton

Powerline: On Trump's excellent speech, Trump condemns bigotry and white supremacy, Two Shootings, Contemptible: Chuck Todd and Bernie Sanders, So what is to be done?

AoSHQ: CA Mass Stabbings. Morning Report 08.08.19, Morning Rant, Morning Report 08.06.19, Morning Report 08.05.19, and So what is to be done?

EBL: President visits Dayton and El Paso, Marty Robbins: El Paso and Boomtown Rats: I Don't Like Mondays