RE: Active shooter in NZ
March 15, 2019 at 3:14 pm
(This post was last modified: March 15, 2019 at 3:29 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
I wasn't trying to steal anybody's hut or their rack of ribs, man, lol.
I'll just suggest, again, that people like this think that they -are- serving in combat. It sounds weird, and that, in and of itself, may be nutball shit...but what they do on the back of that can be as lucid as anything that you or I have ever done. It can be the only sane response to a cracked reality. Honestly, that's what keeps people shooting in warzones, too.
If you want to directly address these incidents, mental health and economics and all that, while laudible, isn't really the way to go. You have to engage with the rhetoric that produced the mindset. A sane person can and will do things like this if they buy in. I'm telling you that from experience. You can look into anyone's past and find economic and relationship failures.
To put it another way, imagining that all of these people do things like this because they're crazy is, as another poster put it, lazy. They do this because we've mainstreamed a message that predictably yields these behaviors. Addressing it as an economic issue is just another version of "economic anxiety"...as though, if they had more money, they wouldn't do it.
I think they'd just buy better gear and more ammo.
I'll just suggest, again, that people like this think that they -are- serving in combat. It sounds weird, and that, in and of itself, may be nutball shit...but what they do on the back of that can be as lucid as anything that you or I have ever done. It can be the only sane response to a cracked reality. Honestly, that's what keeps people shooting in warzones, too.
If you want to directly address these incidents, mental health and economics and all that, while laudible, isn't really the way to go. You have to engage with the rhetoric that produced the mindset. A sane person can and will do things like this if they buy in. I'm telling you that from experience. You can look into anyone's past and find economic and relationship failures.
To put it another way, imagining that all of these people do things like this because they're crazy is, as another poster put it, lazy. They do this because we've mainstreamed a message that predictably yields these behaviors. Addressing it as an economic issue is just another version of "economic anxiety"...as though, if they had more money, they wouldn't do it.
I think they'd just buy better gear and more ammo.
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