To: tejek who wrote (693637 ) 1/18/2013 2:12:16 PM From: one_less Read Replies (2) | Respond to "You hardly post on these threads and yet, you think you know me completely. You know what they say about making assumptions.........well it applies to you and your perspective on me." YOUR assumptions are 1 untrue and 2 something of a projection. Seems like we've had similar exchanges before where you , not only make crazy untrue assumptions, misrepresentations and applications to my personage but then complain this is what is being done to you. Again I will note, I have stuck to the facts as they are known and made no assumptions (Facts---You: no job ever, no dependants, no visable contribution to society, sheltered lifestyle, expressing lots of concern about what you can get the govt to do, etc ... Me: opposite). >>>"Simple fact.............as the numbers of guns in this country have grown so has the frequency of these massacres as well as gun violence in our schools and our cities in general. Another simple fact.........the US is the most violent first world country in the world. That makes all of your explanation up above pure and simple BS." No it doesn't. A correlation does not prove cause and effect. Both things have risen and both have risen for similar reasons (cause), cultural change. In this case we can look at a number of things which have changed. For example, the natural protections of kin in family centered communities which defined our culture for much of our history is not as common as it once was. This puts any isolated individuals at more risk of becoming a victim of violence. That is just one example of something that has changed which could be a cause of greater violence. The shooters in these massacres were not surrounded by a net of protective, caring adults (family, friends, and professions) as they would have been in the not too distant past.
