“People have had guns in this country forever,” the secretary [Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.] continued. “When I was a kid, we had shooting clubs at our school. Kids, my classmates, and other people would bring a .22 rifle with their guns to school and park in the parking lot. Nobody was shooting up schools.”
“There’s never been a time in the history of humanity where people walked into a crowd, or a church, or a movie theater, or a school, or a crowd of strangers and just started randomly shooting,” he said. “It’s happening in our country, it’s not happening around the world. And there are many other countries that have comparable levels [of] guns that we have in this country — we had comparable levels in the ’40s, ’50s, and ’60s and people weren’t doing that. Something changed, and it dramatically changed human behavior.”
“One of the culprits we need to examine is the fact that we’re the most overmedicated nation in the world, and a lot of those are psychiatric drugs that have blackbox warnings on them that warn of suicidal and homicidal ideation,” Kennedy added. “We are doing those studies right now for the first time, and we will have an answer.”
— Amanda Prestigiacomo in RFK Jr Dismisses Gun Control Calls, Will Examine Psych Drugs In Mass Shooting ‘Health Crisis’
These things didn’t happen back when anyone could order machineguns and dynamite from the Sears catalog so obviously access to these things has never been the problem.
Quite a few things have changed in America since then but we’re not allowed to notice those.
“These things didn’t happen back when anyone could order machineguns and dynamite from the Sears catalog“
Nope, mass murders at schools occurred long before the 1934 NFA control legislation.
“The Bath School disaster, also known as the Bath School massacre,[d] was a series of violent attacks perpetrated by Andrew Kehoe upon the Bath Consolidated School in Bath Township, Michigan, United States, on May 18, 1927.“
Gun control legislation didn’t arise spontaneously, the call for firearms regulation was because of murderous rampages by unhinged people.
“The University of Texas tower shooting was an act of mass murder that occurred on August 1, 1966, at the University of Texas at Austin. The perpetrator, 25-year-old Marine veteran Charles Whitman, indiscriminately fired at members of the public“
Of course, now that there’s an intentional effort to ignore history, we shall be condemned to repeat these tragic events.
‘Gun control legislation didn’t arise spontaneously, the call for firearms regulation was because of murderous rampages by unhinged people.’
Not true.
‘Gun control legislation’ and “the call for firearms regulation” came about as a means of control over and denial for disfavored demographics. For example, The GCA was created because LBJ feared an uprising of black people and the category of ‘prohibited people’ in it are because at the time blacks were deemed most likely to meet that criteria. Another example, a Florida law in 1825 authorized white people to “enter into all Negro houses” and “lawfully seize and take away all such arms, weapons, and ammunition.” and in Dred Scott v. Sandford, Chief Justice Roger Taney argued that one reason Black people could not be citizens under the Constitution was that it “would give to persons of the negro race” the right “to keep and carry arms wherever they went.” and after the Civil War, the Black Codes enacted in the South made it a crime for a Black person to have a gun. There are many more examples, and their roots, and all modern day existence of such, all trace back to that ‘Gun control legislation’ and “the call for firearms regulation” all originated from a foundation of control over and denial for disfavored demographics.
“murderous rampages by unhinged people” have happened through all of history, with and without guns. Such is not unique in human history. We aren’t ‘repeating’ anything nor ignoring anything – except one thing and that’s what the left wing is ignoring in their insistence that somehow an inanimate object called a ‘gun’ is responsible for a mentally ill killer murderous rampage and some way or another even more so if the killer is trans.
I would argue that gun control is no longer so much a race issue as an economic one. Who is pushing gun control? The dems. The party of the wealthy elites. nancy pelosi has an annual salary of 174 grand and she’s got a net worth of 400 million. bernie has 3 homes.
Billionaires bought the dems and converted them to fascism. They lie and proclaim themselves social-lists. Social-lism is opposed to wealth amongst individuals.
Yes, that’s been the case for quite some time. If you’re wealthy or connected, you can obtain a carry permit in some places like LA or NYC. The rich who live in gated communities and have security don’t face the same level of risk of encountering violent crime that average or lower-class people do. So, of course, they have no problem telling the unwashed masses that they don’t need any guns.
You have a point jwm.
Claim:
“Who is pushing gun control? The dems. The party of the wealthy elites.”
Wealthy elites?
Facts:
“Trump has tapped an unprecedented 13 billionaires for his administration.
The nominees make up the richest presidential administration in modern history.
ByPeter Charalambous, Laura Romero andSoo Rin Kim
December 17, 2024”
https://abcnews.go.com/amp/US/trump-tapped-unprecedented-13-billionaires-top-administration-roles/story?id=116872968
soros, gates, bloomberg, zuckerberg. The list is endless. Add in the multi millionaires like clooney, rosie, the view etc and how can any thinking individual claim the dems are anything but the party of the elites.
But then, miner49er has proven himself to be a non thinking individual.
Kamala Harris who received the greatest level of support from US counties where the average household income is above $150,000 (£116,000) – roughly double the current median.
According to the exit poll, the Democrat candidate had an eight-point lead over her rival among respondents with family incomes above $100,000.
County-level data bore out this trend. Of the 300-odd counties Harris carried most decisively – with a margin of 10 points or more – 43.3 per cent had median household incomes above the national average.
This number was more than three times lower in Trump’s case, at only 12.9 per cent.
Of the 25 richest counties in the country, Harris succeeded in 16, and Trump in only 9.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/how-the-democrats-became-the-party-of-the-elite/ar-AA1tBJ9w
Democrats haven’t been the party of the working class for years. Miner either doesn’t understand or won’t admit reality.
Bath is where a school board member planted explosives around a school. He killed his wife with a gun. But the rest were killed by his explosives. He had keys to the buildings.
If memory serves.
So two incidents one of which did not include firearms. You keep up that cherry picking you will give yourself a cramp. Also stale recycled copypasta.
“So two incidents one of which did not include firearms.”
I never claimed they both involve firearms, it was your poor reading comprehension that led you to that conclusion:
“Nope, mass murders at schools occurred long before the 1934 NFA control legislation.“
“I never claimed they both involve firearms, it was your poor reading comprehension that led you to that conclusion:”
100% false assertion there Miner49er.
He didn’t arrive at a conclusion that both involved fire arms. He simply made the observation that one did not include firearms.
Miner49er, learn what context means and stop reading everything confirmation biased and learn how to read AND comprehend.
“Quite a few things have changed in America since then but we’re not allowed to notice those.“
One of the things that hasn’t changed is the fact that mentally ill people will use the most efficient means at hand too injure and kill innocent people:
“The first mass shooting inside a school dates back to April 9, 1891. James Foster, 70, entered St. Mary’s Parochial School in New York and opened fire with his double-barrel shotgun, injuring several students. All survived their wounds.“
“There’s never been a time in the history of humanity where people walked into a crowd, or a church, or a movie theater, or a school, or a crowd of strangers and just started randomly shooting,”
Apparently RFK Junior‘s grasp of the facts of history are as ignorant as his grasp of the field of medicine and healthcare:
“On March 28, 1891 a man with a doubled barreled shotgun fired upon a crowd of students and faculty attending a school exhibition in Parson Hall School House in Liberty, Mississippi.The perpetrator wounded over fourteen people mostly children, with several being seriously wounded.”
“There’s never been a time in the history of humanity where people walked into a crowd, or a church, or a movie theater, or a school, or a crowd of strangers and just started randomly shooting,”
Is correct Miner49er.
What you are pointing out is a targeted attack, not just walking in and randomly shooting.
You obviously do not understand the difference.
Many are quick to draw a generalization from too few examples which produces a false conclusion.
Blaming the inanimate object for a crime is like blaming the automobile for a speeding ticket.
“like blaming the automobile for a speeding ticket“
Mo car, no speeding ticket.
Of course, I’m not surprised the logic escapes you.
Or drive car responsibly and no ticket.
“Of course, I’m not surprised the logic escapes you.”
I’m not surprised the logic escapes you Miner49er. Try it without your deceptive cherry picking…
His: “Blaming the inanimate object for a crime is like blaming the automobile for a speeding ticket.”
vs…
Miner49er cherry picking: “like blaming the automobile for a speeding ticket“
See the difference? The Miner49er version omits context intentionally.
No one is ” blaming the automobile for a speeding ticket” – like your stupid confirmation bias logic assumes Miner49er. Its the comparison logic you ignored thus the context you ignored (just like the typical left winger), so very simple that even a first grader could understand it but you Miner49er failed to grasp that simple logic.
Learn what context means Miner49er.
It’s a great idea to study this, of course. I don’t think that’s the underlying cause. I believe these people have been on these medications at one time or another because that’s the accepted treatment for their condition. It would be safe to say that the treatment didn’t work. It’s funny how you don’t hear much about that; there’s too much money in medicating as much people as possible.
As Richard Pryor said. There’s no cure for cancer because the treatments are too profitable.
Or maybe Chris Rock.
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Trans Insanity: It’s Time To Eradicate Transgenderism From Public Life.
“We don’t have to tolerate a demonic ideology that destroys lives, tears families apart, and keeps producing mass shooters.
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It should be obvious by now that transgenderism — the entire industrial complex of medical interventions, legal actions, social affirmation, and political rhetoric now attached to what was once called gender dysphoria — is a serious threat to public safety. As such, it should be outlawed and eradicated from public life.
To be clear, I’m not saying that individuals who believe they are trans should be eradicated, but the gender ideology that affirms them in their delusion should be. Men and women suffering from this cruel delusion should have our compassion, and every effort should be made to bring them back to the reality of their biological sex. Public policy, however, should focus on the ideology of transgenderism and those who perpetrate it. We should treat it the way we treated radical Islamism after 9/11, or communism in the 1950s. It should be understood as a dangerous threat, and anyone advocating or working to advance it should be treated as a criminal and an enemy of the people.
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https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/02/its-time-to-eradicate-transgenderism-from-public-life/
Anyone Who Has Watched Transgenderism Ruin Friends’ Lives Knows How Evil It Is.
https://thefederalist.com/2025/09/02/anyone-who-has-watched-transgenderism-ruin-friends-lives-knows-how-evil-it-is/
The Number of Mass Shooters Identifying as Transgender Since 2020 Is Quite Alarming.
“…
Western Journal did an analysis showing that since 2020, 40 percent of mass shooters or would-be mass shooters have been identified as transgender or suspected of being as such.
…”
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/09/03/the-number-of-mass-shooters-since-2020-identifying-as-transgender-is-quite-alarming-n2662673