PREVENTING SCHOOL MASSACRES IS NOT PRIMARILY ABOUT GUNS

PREVENTING SCHOOL MASSACRES IS NOT PRIMARILY ABOUT GUNS

By Domenick J. Maglio Ph.D. Traditional Realist

People who pull the trigger, stab, set bombs or fires, crash cars into others-kill. The blaming of guns for mass killing is an absurd cover up of a society that is going down a path of evil. God’s word and commandments are being shunned in our schools and media. Being perverted, criminal, illegal, hedonistic or a pathological liar is glorified. 

Our public schools are dangerous places of indoctrination that produce too many jaded, hyper sexual, alienated, dull youngsters who are confused, frightened, bullies or predators.  Most students are only numbers that are not seen as people who have to be nurtured. Instead they are treated by bureaucratic school personnel as prisoners who need to be controlled. This prison mentality is evident in the design of massive buildings that wall them in rather than provide a welcoming, warm, safe environment.

When these youngsters get home, many spend hours watching violent video games, movies and television programing. Our culture of violence has spread to Facebook and Twitter with vicious put downs and cyber bullying. Often there is no parent or family member to teach moral values and discuss the child’s school issues that may have arisen. Meals with the entire family are no longer even expected. Whatever adult is there is harried to give the children showers and put them to bed with little to no sharing of experiences.  Thus children spend little time with their parents to learn almost anything from them. The negative behavior of the child is usually rationalized away instead of being solved. The underlying anger and pathetic thinking patterns remain. The child becomes a potential ticking time bomb who uses whatever destructive weapon he has to get his way.

Texas school shooter, Dimitrius Pozountzes posted on Facebook, “born to kill.”  He incessantly pursued a girl who rejected him. He went to school bringing not only a shotgun and pistol but also IED bombs to vent his anger.  He killed 10 people and injured 13 others at a Santa Fe school. The weapons are not the cause of the outbursts of this disturbed 17 year-olds explosive anti social behavior but instead were directly related to his mental state.

There are many serious destructive cultural forces that must be reversed to return to a more stable, law abiding, God fearing nation. Our Judaic-Christian value system needs to be revived in our schools, churches, and homes. The American people need to influence the media not be passive absorbers of the media’s trashy immoral anti social values. The abortion pipeline should be dismantled as it demeans and destroys life. Parents need to return to the home as the ultimate authority figure, teacher of their child’s moral values and spiritual trainer, not sit on the sidelines as a self absorbed, immature adolescent. These parents need to do their duty and sacrifice for their children to be functioning adults.

Finally our education system has to be revamped from top to bottom. Schools need to be decentralized to give back control and power of the schools to local leaders. This would provide better utilization of public money to establish smaller, more personal schools. These more intimate schools can teach character and academics better than one-size-fits-all massive, penitentiary style warehouses of children and adolescents.

The gun control movement is nothing more than a ridiculous frontal attack on the Second Amendment. Remove all the guns and the same criminals will still find a way to kill innocent people.  The current out-of-control stabbings in London, IEDs and suicide bombers throughout the Middle East, mass murder by vehicle, chemical attacks and many other innovations accomplish mass killings without a gun.

The simplistic and naïve thought process of public school adolescents believing guns are the main and only culprit of massacres can be understood. However, when so-called sophisticated, progressive politicians and their media cohorts proclaim this idea, there has to be another reason.  They are attempting to persuade the American people that our guns should be confiscated by selecting certain violent incidents to highlight while burying others. The Dimitrios- Texas incident did not fit their narrative as he had many different deadly weapons and no semi-automatic rifle. He was a jilted adolescent who was not on anyone’s radar. His violent explosive behavior could not be easily attributed to guns. Furthermore he came from a community and state where guns are a necessary and normal part of life for protection and food. There would be little to no community support for the illogical indictment that guns cause these incidents. This story was buried.

The magic pill of abolishing the Second Amendment will do nothing to lower mass killings but will do everything to grease the skids for elevating a dictatorship or a full blown totalitarian nation.  Remember what happened in Venezuela 2012 when Chavez banned private gun ownership.

Domenick Maglio, PhD. is a columnist carried by various newspapers, an author of several books and owner/director of Wider Horizons School, a college prep program. Dr. Maglio is an author of weekly newspaper articles, INVASION WITHIN  and a new just published book, entitled, IN CHARGE PARENTING In a PC World. You can visit Dr. Maglio at www.drmaglio.blogspot.com.