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Good article on the mass shooting blame game

m.knox

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Of course, it is always the democrats fault....

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn and the Danger in Fomenting Group Hatred After Mass Shootings​


https://fee.org/articles/aleksandr-...-fomenting-group-hatred-after-mass-shootings/

"How many more children have to be murdered before Republicans in Congress will step up and act to pass the Assault Weapons Ban?" asked White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

Many conservatives, meanwhile, seized on Hale's transgender identity, alleging that “transgender terrorists are the largest-growing terrorist group per capita in America,” and suggesting that hormonal treatments might have been to blame.

These reactions, sadly, are fairly typical to mass shootings today, but they are not just harmful but false. The truth is Hale is the only person responsible for the heinous act. She bought the weapons and pulled the triggers that claimed those six lives. Transgenderism is not to blame, nor are Republicans who support the Second Amendment.

Yet our collective failure to recognize this, and to give in to the temptation to blame political opponents and particular classes for the carnage, was on full display this week.

One former US Senator suggested a Congressman who posed with his family for a holiday photo was somehow to blame for Monday’s atrocity because they were pictured with firearms.

A high profile conservative account, meanwhile, shared a picture of one of the victims and said “the Left is pure evil.” (The post was retweeted more than 11,000 times.) A left wing influencer, in a post later deleted, suggested that perhaps the victims were at fault for not “praying enough.” Numerous others have argued that transgender individuals should be stripped of their Second Amendment rights because they are “mentally ill.”

These posts are all problematic for various reasons, but they share a common theme: each deflects blame from the person solely responsible for the tragedy in Nashville—the shooter—and places it on individuals or groups that had nothing to do with the crime. This isn’t just unfair to the people or groups accused, it also fans hatred and dehumanizes them.
 
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