Nobody mentioned staying calm and doing nothing. I said getting all worked up and screaming & crying weren't effective, and to instead deal with the problem intelligently. As for Cack's stats, I don't read most of the nonsense he posts for the same reason I don't read The National Enquirer, People Magazine, or Tiger Beat.
Do you really think that guns are the underlying problem? Let me show you why they aren't. Let's do a thought experiment. Let's put 100 fully loaded guns in a room. What happens? Do any of them go off and do any damage? No. OK, I'll be more fair and realistic. Let's put fully loaded guns in the hands of 100 people at a shooting range. How many murders occur? None. Tens of thousands of shooters go to gun ranges every day and I can't recall the last time I heard of an intentional shooting at one. How about 100 police officers at the station house of a large PD? Happens hundreds of times per day across the country and even with all those guns, a shooting by officers in a crowded, highly armed police station is extremely rare to nonexistent. What about at a military base. Hundreds, maybe even thousands, of armed servicemen carrying loaded guns, yet gun violence is extremely rare on military bases. Now, you still want to claim the problem is the guns and not the behavior of people?
I want to add an additional thought to the above to further illustrate my point. Let's take 100 people with behavior, impulse control, character, and anger issues and put them together - inmates in a prison - without any guns. You think we get much violence... stabbings, rapes, murders, assaults, and etc.? Of course we do, on a daily basis. Even without guns, people with those traits will commit murder and assault on the regular. Even armed to the teeth, normal, law-abiding citizens won't. The bad behavior and crime aren't the fault of the guns. They're not the underlying issue. Behavior is.
Guns are no more the underlying problem with mass shootings than penises are with rape or cars with drunk driving accidents. It's behavior and values and a disconnect from normality in disturbed people. A fragmented society, the erosion of social norms, the erosion of personal responsibility, a coarsening of society and reduction in the respect we accord each other and civility with which we treat each other, and social media's driving of anger and isolation and encouragement of radical behavior all contribute to the problem. Now, do you want to solve the problem, or do you want to just keep parroting the party line about guns? Do you want to actually address the real underlying problem or not?
