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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCharles Clymer: I have some things to say about the Texas Shooting. It's gonna piss people off...
EXCELLENT unrolled Twitter rant from @cmclymer, a former Army infantryman.
14/ Thousands of hours of learning how to kill other human beings. Day after day, month after month, year after year. Rewiring.
15/ Im a flaming liberal. Im a gun owner but dont collect them. My idea of fun is singing karaoke in a tiara, not a day shooting guns.
16/ But there is no doubt in my mind that, if needed, I could kill other human beings efficiently. Tactically. Without hesitation.
17/ I havent worn a uniform in almost six years, but it would be like riding a bike. Its ingrained. I doubt itll ever go away.
18/ Thats the point of military training: muscle memory, acting without hesitation, resorting to a part of your brain on autopilot.
19/ In April 2009, Homeland Security released a report warning of the recruitment of veterans by radical groups...
Just go to the link... I don't think I can adequately summarize this thread.
https://tttthreads.com/thread/927757855113011200
Not Ruth
(3,613 posts)Lisa0825
(14,487 posts)Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)Thank you for posting it.
Lisa0825
(14,487 posts)I think he did an amazing job of tying together so many different aspects of the issues together...
Domestic terrorism, their effort to recruit veterans, how hatred of women related to terrorism in general, etc.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,654 posts)The ability to do that coherently and elegantly in 50+ tweets is impressive.
Alea
(706 posts)Yet most murders and mass murders are done by people that never served.
Lisa0825
(14,487 posts)isn't that worth some investigating? To understand it, to prevent it, etc?
voteearlyvoteoften
(1,716 posts)Hamlette
(15,412 posts)I know what I'll be talking about this Thanksgiving. Bookmarked.
Geechie
(870 posts)One WM willing to examine his societys collusion in this mess:
I'm a white male, and I have no reason to hate that about myself. I love my country. I'm proud of my military service. I'm a gun owner.
NCTraveler
(30,481 posts)Liberalagogo
(1,770 posts)Out of the 20 deadliest shootings in the US:
4 were in Texas.
12 occurred in the last decade. The other 8 were in the 20th century.
8 within the last 5 years
16 the perpetrator died.
8 used semi-automatic rifle.
top 5 all within the last decade.
416 people killed
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States#Deadliest_shootings
cp
(6,680 posts)Entire piece is worth one's time, and then some.
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)When I was in for my 8 years, I only fired once. I had two office type jobs, one in a hospital the other at a Air Traffic Control facility.
I don't know what his job was, but rarely does anyone in the Air Force do a gun thing 24 x 7.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)to include most of our culture and it's obsession with action/kill/carnage/hell-yeah/etc.
Ligyron
(7,645 posts)The protagonist is alway then made into a hero.
Even losers want to be a hero.
Locrian
(4,522 posts)It's all the wanna-be heros. Until they aren't.
Either way - it's ALWAYS the glamours "good guy with a gun". It worked for selling cigarettes, works for selling guns by the bushel.
Meanwhile - it's all normalized. Not necessarily causation, but acceptance and normalization.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)Lisa0825
(14,487 posts)He tied so much together! I am not sure I am using the word right, but it reminds me of discussions I have read on intersectionalism... how all these different issues are connected... The perpetrators are connected by multiple characteristics, AND their victims as well - by things like gender, race, political affiliation, etc.
Madam45for2923
(7,178 posts)malaise
(269,328 posts)Not sure why a mass shooting inspired by hatred of women doesnt qualify as terrorism
unless, maybe, we dont respect women as people?
33/ Not exactly the most comfortable truth in the national discourse, particularly in a sea of as a father of daughters statements.
34/ The other side of that coin is white maleness. A political system and media dominated by white men isnt eager to be self-reflective.
35/ Why would I examine a system of white supremacy that gives me unearned benefits and being forced to recognize theyre unearned?
36/ Why would I admit, despite all evidence, that my white maleness protects me from all sorts of threats and accountability? Scary stuff.
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I've been wondering about that hatred of women - why is it not terrorism?
lame54
(35,353 posts)That shooting guns is hella fun
That is one of the scariest things about them