I Am For Gun Control

I’m Gen Z (i.e. the generation that’s being killed in school) and I have a couple opinions about gun control/school shootings. I really don’t want to hear anybody tell me that my generation doesn’t know shit because a couple people ate tide pods as a meme. We’re young adults and we are the future.

The whole March For Our Lives movement is kind of pissing me off. Remember when Black Lives Matter did the same thing and got hauled off to jail? It’s ridiculous that people are trying to claim activism when it’s only white people they care about. The only time the media listens is when there is a white translator.
I believe Gun control is needed in ALL forms. Not just for everyday citizens, police officers need it too bc yanno they’re still murdering unarmed black men.

Another thing, I don’t understand why people are acting like school shootings are caused by bullying. If that were true, we would see many more poc shooters, female shooters, lgbt+ shooters. You know, the people actually getting bullied in school. But, we don’t. The majority of mass shooters are straight white men. Of course, there have been some instances where a minority has committed a mass shooting, but it’s less than 10% of the time. It isn’t a matter of bullying, it’s more a matter of the privilege and entitlement white men have. Straight white men are by far the most privileged and entitled group of people. I believe mental illness can play a factor but it is not something to blame mass shootings on.

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

Privilege doesn't make them a shooter, it's the demonizing of men, which is bullying. I doubt you've ever felt the same as they do, not being them and all, I went through that field of rage in school and it's not about entitlement anymore than those that demand their healthcare and free tuition.

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

@BetweenKittensandRiots If people were being kept down then how come others get out of it? I can't believe privilege exists if you can escape or fall out of it.

Miram · 31-35, F

@BetweenKittensandRiots

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manifestoofthephoenix · 31-35, T
In their 2016 edited book Gun Violence and Mental Illness, psychiatrists Liza Gold and Robert Simon summarize the evidence debunking the myth that mental illness is a leading cause of gun violence. As they report, less than 5% of shootings are committed by people with a diagnosable mental illness. Like mentally healthy offenders, the mentally ill are far more likely to shoot people they know rather than strangers. The mentally ill are also far more likely to be victims of gun violence rather than perpetrators. These data suggest that the link between mental illness and mass shooting exists in our minds, not in reality.[/quote]

The statistics are about gun violence [b]not school shootings.[/b] They are misleading. They don't take account of cases that weren't diagnosed until the consequences took place. It's an attempt to move focus from flaws in healthcare. More and more people are being heavily medicated without a proper diagnosis in the US and Canada. You have to settle for that to have access to better treatment ways after waiting for months. So either medications that have aggression as a side effect, or neglecting your state.

[quote]White people are privileged in the sense that they have never suffered from systematic oppression.[/quote]

I think my main concern with [b]white privilege[/b] is that it's popularly being used as a club, not as a light. Much like how the Religious justifies their positions with "love the sinner, hate the sin" when clearly that's not what they are doing, in many quarters, the use of the privilege / intersectionality argument is actually being used to blame white people -and- encourage a "victim mentality" in non-white people above and beyond the actual inequalities they already experience. How does one know that those men benefited of any sort of privileges? Is it quantifiable? It's not like mental illnesses where you can go through each case and study it. And I am not so sure that every white person, including the poor and the powerless, have access to things I don't.