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Creating a society where people actually give a shit about each other would help. So free healthcare, housing and education.
Then theres the disgusting habit our society has of ignoring signs of psychopathy and our how we currently reward bullying. A lot of these shooters were violent bullies before grabbing a gun, and nothing ever gets done about that.
Rewarding kindness needs to start being a thing too. We all need to live together so encouraging a hostile and competitive environment is fucking stupid and needs to stop.
do we have limits on what “political will” means. because i don’t think this can really come about without revolution but:
all firearms remanded to community armories supervised by elected militia committees (militias which of course replaced the formal armed forces), guns are released for recreation but tracked & both the militia and some other community body could have the ability to strip individuals of access when say, they’re suicidal or feuding with someone
Universal healthcare would go an extremely long way
This would be my solution as well. Caring for each other is a very strong but passive way of reminding people that they are part of the group, that they are wanted, needed, and worthy of health and happiness (mental health). I think it would go a long way to countering the alienation and isolation that I believe is the primary driver for these shooters. Sure, they get radicalized online, or in radical spaces, but what drove them to seek those spaces or forums in the first place? The feeling that they didn’t belong. If you feel like you belong you see others as extensions of yourself, and the idea of gunning down a bunch of yourself becomes less palatable.
I think we need to do something even if it’s a bad or dumb thing because school shootings are gaining a reputation as an intractable issue and THAT’S the thing we gotta get rid of because school shootings are so anomalous there’s no way it could possibly be intractable besides assuming it is.
I’m not anti-security theater in principle. I could do the Matt Yglesias take “acktually school shootings are an infinitesimally small fraction of violence”. eeeeeh yeah ok but it is extremely terrorizing. My hot take (and remember my first paragraph, I favor ANYthing much more than I favor my OWN opinion) is that millions of kids spending their childhood being afraid with zero say in where they spend their weekdays is as atrociously evil as the gunmen they’re scared of. So here the only security theater I’m against is if it’s unconvincing.
I’m not going to go through mental health, outreach, suicide. There’s so many things we could do that we have choice paralysis.
More doing, less thinking. More experimenting, more failure and lots lots more action that kids see we’re doing for them and can understand and follow.
Kids have zero say in most aspects of their lives so it’s impossible to exaggerate how unjust this whole thing is. It’s so unjust that I’d even support multiple TSA’s worth of security theater (9/11 had justification so I don’t support actual TSA security theater).
Socialism and re-education camps
