STOP VIOLENCE, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!

Why are there plenty of deranged people who prefer to hold guns and other arms to kill other people? What drives them to go into such kind of inhuman practices?

Is it not a form of being anti-human? Of trying to forget or having forgotten that one is still a human being?

Is it not a form of loss of faith in humanity? 

Who is the first person from whom an individual learns how to be human being?

Who teaches the children that they exist, that there are other people who exist as they are?

Who teaches them how to be kind and good to other people? Or is this ever taught at all?

Maybe the above are not all covered in the home, that place where warmth and love must exist. 

Maybe there are truly dysfunctional families that do not nurture people to be human and humane. 

So parents rely or the government thinks that by putting problem children in schools would solve the problem. Teachers are expected to be surrogate parents who will provide the necessary teachings, or serve or show examples of how to be a human being -- kind and gentle. 

But how come there are still the mass shootings occurring inside schools as the latest, and everywhere else? According to reports, data, the Texas shooting yesterday is the 101st this year. 

Maybe the American women's movement and which should be led by Hillary and all other Hollywood actresses, AS WELL AS female politicians and spouses of politicians with high political consciousness (high profile women) should lead in this endeavor of stopping violence. We need a concerted effort at this. The school youth have already spoken. Let the women follow suit -- with ecumenical solidarity all throughout the nation. 

The United States looks in need of maternal outlook, maternal feelings, maternal caring.   Let us include the men -- paternal outlook, paternal feelings, paternal caring.  

Those who use guns and kill are both men and women, with the former outnumbering the latter. 

" Between 1982 and February 2018, 2 mass shootings were initiated by female shooters, 94 by male shooters. The mass shooting in San Bernardino on December 2nd 2016 was the only instance in which both a male and female were the shooters." (https://www.statista.com/statistics/476445/mass-shootings-in-the-us-by-shooter-s-gender)

HELP WOMEN, HELP! Let our maternal instincts reverberate around the globe and preserve human lives. 

STOP VIOLENCE, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!


















SOME NOTES ON MASS SHOOTINGS:

What distinguishes mass shootings from other incidences of gun crime—mob violence, racial lynchings, et cetera—is not entirely clear. Most commonly, mass shootings are defined as events in which a lone perpetrator or a small group of perpetrators uses firearms to kill three or more victims. School shootings by contrast have no numerical qualifier; a school shooting is any incidence of gun violence occurring at or in the vicinity of an educational institution.

The full scope of gun violence in the U.S. and abroad is immense. In the U.S. alone there were 346 mass shootings in 2017, or about one per day. Despite attempts by nonprofits like the Gun Violence Archive and by government agencies, it is almost impossible to present every mass shooting. Rather, these are modern shootings that garnered particular attention or had a lasting cultural impact. Find the date, location, and a short description of each incident.

https://www.infoplease.com/us/crime/timeline-worldwide-school-and-mass-shootings

Gun control laws included here are: expanding background checks, closing the “Charleston loophole,” improving record reporting, closing the “terror gap,” banning bump stocks, addressing gun trafficking, closing the “boyfriend loophole,” and creating a “red flags” process. A mass shooting involves four or more people injured or killed in a single event at the same time and location. Mass shooting estimates available after Jan. 13, 2013

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/02/15/opinion/congress-gun-progress.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=small-thumb&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region