RE: The Bewildered Herd - Mass Shootings and Propaganda
There's something going on near my son's school today, so he's on "lock-out" and not at school. We've gotten a spate of emails from the school district since the 14th saying there have been threats, but have all turned out to be hoaxes. It definitely feels like someone/something is trying to generate a level of fear, and this area is prone to that, being very near to Columbine high school. The fact that these school shootings are generally an American thing, that there's no larger trend in human psychology worldwide toward this behavior, suggests that there is some orchestration behind it. I'm not sure if it's for distraction or just to keep everyone on edge to the point that they're more malleable and willing when the government attempts to tighten its control.
That's very worrying, I hope everything turns out ok at your son's school.
I agree that we should see these types of events happening in other countries if it were a worldwide phenomena but we don't. We do see terrorist attacks though but not the mass shootings every few months. It really does make you thin that something is behind a lot of these shootings. I totally agree that the US gov wishes to tighten it's control over the general population by any means necessary.
Those in favor of gun bans are arguing that the thing making the United States different is the availability of firearms and this is the reason we don't see it happening in other countries. They say that after the UK and Australia totally banned guns after similiar mass killing incidents, the problem was solved. However, truly insane people will find other ways of committing mass murder just like the Boston Marathon bombers.
There is a definite pattern to these episodes in the United States. Since the movie theatre shooting in Colorado, they've been happening on a linear schedule of about 5 to 10 months (averages out to about 6 months between events). The script is always the same as this article mentions. Many of them also happen in areas where the gun issue is politically divisive - swing states like Colorado, Florida, or Nevada, or in the blue districts of red states.