One person shooting many people is just the flip side of many people shooting one person

[JDPriestly]

16. True, but let's don't expect miracles from mousetraps.

A mousetrap may stop one mouse, but then you have to get rid of the mouse.

If you plug the holes in your house and get rid of whatever is attracting the mice in the first place, you will be less likely to get mice in your house.

Let's focus on root causes. Applying band-aids will make us feel safer, and that is good, but they will not solve our society's problem.

When someone whose immigration status was unclear shot someone in was it the Bay area in California, immigrants were blamed for being violent.

Most of these mass shootings are done by men who were born in the US.

But Americans always like to latch onto an explanation for the shootings that has nothing to do with their own lack of anger management.

Take DU for example.

We are constantly called to jury duty by someone who is offended by a post -- someone who is mad because someone else got mad and posted something angry. It's really childish if you think about it. Why get mad at someone who says something you don't like on the internet?

And what is the most common response when someone on DU says something someone else does not like? Call a jury and then call a jury again, five times until the person who has offended the alerter is finally removed from the list of people who are 'allowed" to post on DU.

And we have to have such a system to keep our conversations, our mostly political discussions, on DU civil. Just civil.

That shows you that we on DU are not very good at dealing with our own personal anger when posting. And the stakes are very, very low on DU. We are just talking about issues, yet especially lately, some of the rhetoric gets way beyond respectful, way beyond angry.

So we on DU should not point too many fingers. Because the underlying issues is staying calm. Breathe deep. Take time to be silent and still and calm every day. Go for a lovely walk. Be at peace within yourself.

Read Nonviolent Communication.

When our communication supports compassionate giving and receiving, happiness replaces violence and grieving!
-- CNVC founder, Marshall B. Rosenberg, PhD

Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing, and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there.
--Rum

https://www.cnvc.org/

I am not personally involved in that organization other than participating in a seminar some years ago and reading the book.

Participating in a seminar of theirs CAN be a life-changing experience.

Reading the book can too.

I highly recommend looking into that for everyone who wonders how it is possible that anger can so escalate that the angry person shoots others.