So the March was wonderful and peaceful and amazing! I'm so grateful for the people here who kept me centered about my vision associated with it and for all of the millions who participated world wide!
The March in Denver was huge - they say about 30,000 people attended. The energy was incredible- like nothing I've ever experienced before. Things are going to change for the better. There is no doubt in my mind. ?
Very happy that the marches went off successfully and peacefully. My son and I "accidentally" ended up at the San Jose CA, march, as we were going to a hockey game that day (my Xmas present). Lots of great energy and signage. My favorite was a 10+ piece band playing, with no less than 3 women (65+) wearing their pink P*ssy hats. Nice to see the boomer protesters out there encouraging this new generation to make a positive impact.
And my god, Rick Santorum! Could you be a bigger @$$h0l3? I hope the students read his comments and use them as fuel to keep the fire burning hot in their furnaces. The arrogance is revolting......
Yogurt master, the muskets they had during the American Revolution did not shoot hundreds of rounds per minute. None of these mass shootings could have taken place with the guns that Americans carried back then. Saying we've had guns before this country was born and worrying about the right to bear arms, is a hackneyed NRA argument. Few are talking about banning all guns. In Massachusetts, you can own a gun, just not an automatic weapon and you have to have a background check and carry a license and a few other requirements. If all states had the same rules as Massachusetts, 27,000 lives would be saved a year.
Before you throw out the Vox study, read it. It was well done. Then read a lot of other studies if you can find then. It is hard to find studies, however, because the NRA banned federally funded studies on gun deaths.
Yogurtmaster, addressing your points made earlier:
The big problem is why are things like this happening? We have had firearms before since the beginning of the country and yet we have had nothing like this in the past. Sure, there were things like mobster shootings, but nothing like mass shooting after mass shooting.
It's a legitimate question so I did some research. As I wrote, the kinds of guns they had before since the beginning of the country could not shoot 400 rounds per minute, more like one shot every few minutes. The Parkland shooter killed all those kids in just six minutes. If he'd had a simple handgun, he'd have been lucky if he killed one kid before being subdued. You indicated that you didn't mean since the beginning of the country, you meant in the last few decades. The answer is the same. The general public did not have access to guns that shoot 400 rounds per minute back in the 1980's. Today they sell these guns like hotcakes.
So far, what we know is:
1.The number of shootings has not changed since the 1970's but the number of people killed per shooting has gone up.
2. The ownership of consumer grade, light weight, easy to use automatic guns with bump stocks has skyrocketed since the 1970's. These guns make it possible to kill many people at once without much skill.
Also, to the myth that we know more today isn't going to cut it. We didn't get news on our mobile phones as we didn't have them, but we would get news of president Regan getting shot while at school on the intercom and I knew about the space shuttle blowing up from the news. We just get the news faster today and that's it.
I didn't realize anyone was blaming it on information availability. If so, you may be right. Although I'd like to see data on that. Psychologists have found that the copy cat phenomenon is real when it comes to shootings. People see what others are doing and they copy them.
I went to school in the 1980's. We didn't have lots of events like this. There were problems on the planet, but not like today, never like today.
I appreciate your question. Undoubtedly if we had more data, which we would have if the NRA hadn't gotten Congress to ban research on gun deaths, we might discover more at work here. However, one has to wonder why the NRA doesn't want research done on this subject. Likely they already know that the data lead to the conclusion that the problem is the guns.
As I said, the data show that the number of violent crimes has not gone up, just the number of guns per capita, and the number of people killed per violent incident.
We are not the most violent country. The UK has a higher violent crime rate than the U.S., as does Canada and Australia. But our gun deaths are six times the next highest gun death country. And we have six times as many guns in circulation as those countries.
If it's not the guns, then what is it? If someone has some data to help with this question, please provide!
I'd like to quickly add that our culture is particularly obsessed with violence. Okay, this might be a remnant of past harder days when death, wars and violence were more ubiquitous. However, especially in America, now there is a very melodramatic way of viewing the world. Melodramatic in this sense that the world is cast into good or evil, with little nuances in between. Evils is understood to be something that has been fundamentally corrupted and with its proximity to death (something our culture is very bad in, acknowledging our mortality) poses an existential threat. Evil is also metaphoric for intense internal strife, especially teenage emotions. The only solution is the absolute destruction of evil. You particularly see this in our modern entertainment. I'm not even talk about the horror genre. Think about Dirty Harry and his self-righteous, vindictive stance to bring justice to the world through violence and destruction. It's an ideal of manliness in a time when the patriarchy is painfully unraveling.
Now think about the "pornography of death", that is the violence the average person consumes daily. The current imagery in prime-time TV and movies have become so grass and gory, (marketed to 13 year olds!!!) I can't watch a lot anymore because I'm sick of seeing brains splattered all over. Just compare a movie-death from the 50's to a movie-death now. Such explicit and agonizing deaths than never offer space for contemplation and grief. What was once a niche has become mainstream, think "the walking dead". People LOVE that show and watch it with their kids. If you ask them what they like about it, they don't even know.
We constantly CONSUME violent, absolute crass imagery withing this melodramatic set-up; Through this some troubled kids learn that intense internal conflict can only be resolved through destruction, hence all these young rejected men shooting their ex-girlfriends/ wifes. Doing this in public places like schools, is a performative act that shall re-establish their manliness and sends a message to the world that they, in the end, have the power and will to control and take life. And there is more and more research emerging, that media violence is actually altering children's brains! Yes, an adult can distinguish between real life and a computer game (because violent computer games are often blamed for mass shootings) but somebody who was fed violent imagery at a young age can run into serious problems distinguishing between intense inner emotional states and an outer world.
Now you throw guns into the mix and the absence of health care, a cruel society and no minimum wage (aka poverty) and the carnage on screens is manifesting in real life.
Hi Tee,
With the world and its governing 'nutters', I along with the rest of the thinking population am feeling the doom and gloom.
The independent news is the only one I want to read. The MSM would turn anyone in an alcoholic just to escape...........good that I dont like it:)
It is always with discernment that I listen to teleseminars.. As I was given a free download of an interview with Ethann Fox, was interested to know more and decided to check him out. Listened to long interview where at the end (some astrology) he spoke about vast lands of the Arctic being settled into communities of self sufficiency - from 2022 onwards.
Yes there is chaos, but we chose this time to be here - so plug on I guess - always seemed to me that reincarnation made sense.
For me his teaching? discussions are very soothing. Plus the free download info was an eye opener and a way opened to peace and hope for me in witnessing so much destruction world wide. Being a bit of a mother hen worry wort..it came at the right time - for me. He has loads of info on his site - I love the Flower of Life and wear one as pendant.
Peace
Hi Tee,
Just recalled Ethann saying the music by Mark Romero has been screened energetically and it much more than just music.
Cannot recall exactly what that was but since I have some CDs from ages ago - going to listen more often.
If you like to dance around the house and push out the blues, it is great.
Many years ago when seeking out a well known clairvoyant for advice on a soul mate - no luck there but she did say - which kind of blew me away - I bring the stars down to earth when I dance. I knew what she saw soon after that when out dancing, to my embarrassment I looked up, the whole room of dancers formed a circle around me and just watched - I was just having a good time with the live music.
My little dog loves it when I dance these days - think she had a passed life as a circus dancing dog. Some of the videos of dancing dogs are amazing - saw one from Central America/Mexico dancing with his trainer to a Latin American number.
He was having a ball.
So I better get on with it then. :)
Happy days