I'm curious why you seem to take for granted that CRT is the most valid lens through which to analyze mass shootings. While "young white gunman attacks" certain happen, young *black* gunman attacks happen more often (and *far* more often per capita). They just don't get as much media coverage.
Making this into a "whiteness" issue is probably the most counterproductive possible take.
Also, while I often prefer to address the philosophical before the practical, the practical problem here is intractable. There are 300,000,000 guns in private hands in the US. The gun ownership question cannot be contemplated as if it were a blank slate. Any gun confiscation program, or any move to further restrict legal carry, will inevitably increase the proportion of guns in criminals' hands. I'm not aware of any remedy for that particular issue.
Hmm.... I was not as clear as I meant to be, so I added a note that the CRT stuff is how the Lefties I've been reading view this (in academia and corporate media). The goal of this Substack, which I'm still learning how to do, is to explain to each side what the other is seeing and why they think the way they do. I hope my note clears that up.
I personally tried to focus my own explanation on the psychology of resentment in mass shootings like Buffalo, and on the tribal warfare instincts in gang violence, which you correctly state as happening much more frequently, but getting much less coverage. I thought about including the statistics that that a large percentage of gun homicides and mass shootings occur major American cities.
I've added a section on that.
And I agree that there's no getting guns out of Americans hands without massive resistance and a lot of gun owners would rather die than comply. I have also likewise edited to add a section on this.
Thank you for the constructive criticism and feedback. I'm always aiming to do better and I can't always see the mistakes I make, so I appreciate it and will take all the help I can get.
Thanks for the edits and additions. For anyone interested in presenting a holistic view of political issues, it's very important to resist the narrative that these high-profile mass shootings are a significant percentage of overall gun violence. They aren't even close.
This isn't a left vs. right thing, but it's critical context.
People who use things like grocery store shootings to push gun control are misguided at best, and disingenuous as worst. Because as you mention, spree shootings and urban gun violence have very different causes--which require very different solutions.
A magic wand that forever prevented spree shootings would only reduce gun homicides by about 1%. It's the wrong tree to bark up.
I'm curious why you seem to take for granted that CRT is the most valid lens through which to analyze mass shootings. While "young white gunman attacks" certain happen, young *black* gunman attacks happen more often (and *far* more often per capita). They just don't get as much media coverage.
Making this into a "whiteness" issue is probably the most counterproductive possible take.
Also, while I often prefer to address the philosophical before the practical, the practical problem here is intractable. There are 300,000,000 guns in private hands in the US. The gun ownership question cannot be contemplated as if it were a blank slate. Any gun confiscation program, or any move to further restrict legal carry, will inevitably increase the proportion of guns in criminals' hands. I'm not aware of any remedy for that particular issue.
Hmm.... I was not as clear as I meant to be, so I added a note that the CRT stuff is how the Lefties I've been reading view this (in academia and corporate media). The goal of this Substack, which I'm still learning how to do, is to explain to each side what the other is seeing and why they think the way they do. I hope my note clears that up.
I personally tried to focus my own explanation on the psychology of resentment in mass shootings like Buffalo, and on the tribal warfare instincts in gang violence, which you correctly state as happening much more frequently, but getting much less coverage. I thought about including the statistics that that a large percentage of gun homicides and mass shootings occur major American cities.
I've added a section on that.
And I agree that there's no getting guns out of Americans hands without massive resistance and a lot of gun owners would rather die than comply. I have also likewise edited to add a section on this.
Thank you for the constructive criticism and feedback. I'm always aiming to do better and I can't always see the mistakes I make, so I appreciate it and will take all the help I can get.
Thanks for the edits and additions. For anyone interested in presenting a holistic view of political issues, it's very important to resist the narrative that these high-profile mass shootings are a significant percentage of overall gun violence. They aren't even close.
This isn't a left vs. right thing, but it's critical context.
People who use things like grocery store shootings to push gun control are misguided at best, and disingenuous as worst. Because as you mention, spree shootings and urban gun violence have very different causes--which require very different solutions.
A magic wand that forever prevented spree shootings would only reduce gun homicides by about 1%. It's the wrong tree to bark up.