Matt Gurney: Santa Barbara shooting was definition of ‘preventable.’ Six people died anyway
The most depressing part of last weekend’s
mass shooting in Santa Barbara, California, other than the six dead and 13 wounded, of course, is the bigger implication. After every shooting incident like this one, we are quick to demand answers as to how this has happened, and suggest how things could have gone better. But this latest rampage was the textbook example of a shooting that was completely preventable. Everything was in place here to stop it. Everyone had done the right thing. And six people died, anyway. This may be the time in the collective conversation where we acknowledge that there’s sometimes no real defence against such evil acts.
Matt Gurney: Santa Barbara shooting was definition of ‘preventable.’ Six people died anyway | National Post
Usually when a crazy person goes on a killing spree, you find out their opinions and motivations are insane. Ideology hacks like to slot crazies into the opposing side and while those crazy people have opinions that may appear right wing or left wing on the surface, they aren't really what right wing and left wing people feel. It's just pure insanity.
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Absolutely.
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In this case, however, the most disturbing thing is just how mainstream his opinions of women are. This man grew up in a society that thinks nothing of seeing women as non-persons whose sexuality men are entitled to, and who should be punished and ridiculed for rejecting male advances (not to mention punished and ridiculed for accepting them). Women aren't people to have relationships with, but things to be curated and acquired in the pursuit of happiness. Popular culture - movies, TV, music - caters to this fantasy. You will hear the complaints this man made about women made casually in social settings with men and all over the internet.
That's the problem. His views on women are widely accepted.
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I am an older guy who has been around a little bit, and despite the fact that I am kinda enthralled with female sexuality, I certainly never felt "entitled" to it. On those instances where I have seen women "punished and ridiculed for rejecting male advances" it was NOT considered acceptable by anyone on the scene, . Nobody likes a pushy moron, including most men.
To extrapolate the behaviour of a few idiots to all men is unfair. To blame a non-existent culture of male sexual entitlement
for the actions of a psychotic murderer is just silly.....especially as you said yourself "It's just pure insanity".
Sexuality is a woman's game.....they have power, and for a woman to play the "victim" card on this is simply ludicrous, especially when 4 out of the 6 killed were MALE..
