ANOTHER SCHOOL/PUBLIC SHOOTING

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Fact: Switzerland, Czech Republic, Yemen, Phillipines and a bunch of other countries has constitutional law that decrees the right to bare arms, similar to that of the US. And a lot of them do, but when was the last time you heard of a school shooting in any of these countries? If it’s only guns that kill people, and not people killing people, then surely, statically, you should all be on the same level?

The most significant difference I can come up with is America being a superpower, which is akin to being an empire in terms of military aggression/intervention. Empire and republic are mutually exclusive. Our state has pretenses to being a representative democracy but it behaves like an empire. Combine that with the socio-economic consequences of globalism and you have a society that's descending into the gutter, with the full blessing of our "representatives".

Oh for fucks sake!

It's goddammed high fructose corn syrup.

Every since sugar was systematically being replaced by this liquid crap, the rate of mass shootings has increased in an exact parallel manner. (1970's to date).

And removing the dolphin from tinned tuna, too.  Decrease in tuna with dolphin . . . increase in mass shootings.  Provable inverse relationship. 

Look at the graphs!  Quit making this shit geo-political.

Remember the Romans? Once a republic that achieved greatness, all down the toilet for the sake of empire, and why? Because a few powerful individuals realized the possibility for accumulating treasure and wealth on an unprecedented scale. It was never about the quest for "glory" that the legionaires were duped into believing.

Empires always end in bankruptcy, morally and financially. In response to the question, "what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?", Ben Franklin replied, "A republic, if you can keep it". The surest way to lose a republic is to pursue empire. And here we are, down in the gutter compared to where we once were, and the worst is yet to come.

The most effective way to maintain and expand power is by employing the strategy of divide and conquer. No other nation in this world is more divided than America. Multi-cultural, mostly disintegrated, and totally dysfunctional. The divisiveness could be corrected, but there is no effort to do so at the state and federal levels, so the nation descends into madness. The stress increases exponentially, as does the hatred and scapegoating, so extremism, which used to be an outlier, is now becoming the norm.

Violent media is insufficient to cause what we're seeing today. It's definitely a factor, but it isn't the root cause. The destruction we're seeing is not incidental. If you
wrote a book titled "Self-destruction For Dummies", America would tick off all the boxes -- literally.