Why don't we do what Jackson Katz suggests, and ask not with what are the crime being perpetuated, but by whom...all males. Why are males shooting up our schools? Could it have something to do with the masculine myth?
2006-10-14 15:13:21 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Easy access to weapons certainly leads to a much higher level of tragedy. Our country is addicted to the aggressive male archetype and when you add our love of guns it deffintely leaves us in some very percarious positions. When you look closely at the young men who commit these terrible crimes they all feel powerless in their day to day lives. They believe that something has to wrong with them because of this, which is why many end as murder suicides. The gun is seen as a symbol of empowerment and a way to get back at those people who have tormented them and made them less then men.
2006-10-14 15:57:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. At my prep school in Kenya (equivalent to grades K -7 in the US) the kids were encouraged to bring guns and knifes to school and no-one thought it weird, unusual or wrong and no-one ever shot anyone else!
2014-04-24 09:00:05 · answer #2 · answered by Rebecca B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
??? The problem is lack of knowledge about the responsibilities of having a firearm in a home. Being from a rural community I knew that guns are not toys they are dangerous tools if they are in the wrong hands. the answer to the problem is first to review what guns are available to people (who needs an AK47 around the home especially when anyone can modify it to be a automatic weapon) the popular way parents who have guns to keep children form using them is to tell them that they are bad and should never touch them. A better way is to educate your children at an appropriate age about the proper use of these weapons. and to make sure your unstable kids cant just get at them. Lock your guns up properly!!!
2006-10-14 15:32:36 · answer #3 · answered by Daniel B 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would say yes & no.Yes because boys like guns alot of parents give there son or sons a toy gun to play with whether it be a water gun,video game gun or cap gun.So he become familiar very early.A gun is a very controling device.Nobody wants to try a person with agun .Most of these boys are lonely and abused by peers & students,so when they snap mentally,which is the next answer to the second part of the ?the gun is the most arogant & flamboyant way to control those same peers.
2006-10-14 15:34:09 · answer #4 · answered by Sexenicke2 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
automatic weapons are already banned. they like to place semi automobiles interior an identical class as automatics and maximum weapons are semi motor vehicle. confident gun crime isn't as intense interior the united kingdom yet their violent crime fee (rape housebreaking abode invasions...) is 3x larger than the U. S.. They even have talks approximately banning long knives with a pointy factor. the united kingdom is likewise an island so its rather much less complicated to maintain out banned products. If the U. S. banned the 2d, there could nonetheless be weapons coming in from significant u . s . a . of america, the drug cartels could get a sparkling source of gross sales.
2016-10-02 07:37:05 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good question. Might it be that males really don't know how to handle emotions. They have a problem/issuse. don't want to or don't know how to deal with them. It builds up and Bam..we read about it in the papers or watch it on the news. yes the macho thing is there too,but I feel not being able to deal with neg.emotions is a big factor too. Thank again for the question.
2006-10-14 15:26:06 · answer #6 · answered by R W 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Absence of role-models, substituted by "Quentin Tarantino" type of behavior, which finds wide applaud in the greater society of our culture. Where even Women (young girls ) endorse such behavior, aside being a celebrity for a fleeting glimpse. To add there are millions of schools world wide and news of such occurrence, are a found feast for the media.
Yes blame the Media.
2006-10-14 23:36:33 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like to know how these people got the guns so easily in the first place. We hardly ever hear about that. If the parents had them in the home, why were they not locked up or at least where these teens couldn't get to them?
2006-10-14 16:19:37 · answer #8 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No bullies are the problem...they are always hating on the nerds/geeks. Then theres a point where the nerds/geeks cant handle it nomore and resort to shooting up the school.
2006-10-14 15:22:51 · answer #9 · answered by Paco 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
problems of this nature start at home the break down of the family unit has many and veried out comes.
2006-10-14 15:18:21 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋