I’m reasonably sure the ready availability of free pornography leads to a lot of bad sex between consenting adults, but I can’t figure out how it could possibly cause a school shooting, let alone explain why there have been 23 school shootings already this year. But porn is what Tennessee Republican gubernatorial candidate Rep. Diane Black says is driving all this bloodshed.
Does anyone know what kind of porn Rep. Diane Black (R-Tenn.) is watching?
Whatever it is, the 67-year-old Black, who is running for governor of Tennessee, said it’s a “big part” of what is driving the spike in school shootings.
During a meeting last week with local pastors, Black raised the issue of gun violence in schools and why it keeps happening.
“Pornography,” she said.
“It’s available on the shelf when you walk in the grocery store. Yeah, you have to reach up to get it, but there’s pornography there,” she continued. “All of this is available without parental guidance. I think that is a big part of the root cause.”
Someone should tell Rep. Diane Black that the internet has free porn because she’s apparently the last person in the country to think that people still buy the magazines.
Also, someone could explain that this internet porn is available to people who don’t live in Tennessee or even in America. Yet, we’re the only ones suffering approximately one school shooting per week.
We could have a lot of fun coming up with things that explain gun violence that have absolutely no relationship to guns or bullets: too many movie trailers, not enough free syrup at the Waffle House, insufficient parking at the mall, grown men playing softball, the way first graders take too long to queue, the Confederate Flag, non-white people attending religious services.
It works for other things, too, like the causes of lung cancer and the acidification of oceans.
Give it a try.
Let’s see: school shootings, according to wingnuts (nearly all of whom receive NRA support) are apparently caused by:
Somehow the really obvious risk factor for school shootings gets left out: access to a shitload of guns and ammo. We might want to look a bit more carefully at the extent to which these shooters are attracted to extremist literature on websites (I am thinking more neo-Nazi materials) and the extent to which many of these heinous crimes are copycat crimes. The rest of the stuff listed is at best a distraction.
ABG: Anything But Guns.
“Where ignorance is bliss,’tis folly to be wise.”
– Thomas Grey
That ignorance is bliss is rather an old fashioned saying that sounds trite these days, but it’s apt in all times since I’ve been politically aware. My guess is this phenomenon is ancient and in fact my limited understanding of history is consistent with this observation. We’ve always had demagogues which is why the founders of our nation didn’t trust democracy. Not that reserving power to the educated and privileged was any better.
Oddly in this time the solution to many of our issues would be greater democracy. If every vote counted equally it would at least force the bastards who pull the strings to manipulate and divide us in a manner not radical.
On the eve of the Great War, socialist leaders were trying to convince workers to identify by class rather than by nationality, to refuse to take up arms against fellow workers even if they spoke a different language or had different customs. Of course it didn’t work. The pull of nationalism was too strong.
The powerful have been playing these samee chords since forever. And well intentioned though many of the socialist leaders were out was still the privileged using propaganda to pull strings. Had they succeeded it would have just led to other forms of exploitation (as was so well illustrated by Soviet communism).
If there’s a path to healthy governance it can only be to somehow educate everyone to a degree of political sophistication that at least makes it more difficult to manipulate the people.
I respectfully disagree, at least a little. The problem is less willful lack of knowledge or interest than the most engaged wingnuts absorbing and respewing the most calculated, intentional lies. This has always been something political leaders traffic in, but with the right wing alternate “news” bubble and the Internet, never before can it envelop so many so efficiently.
The more you watch Fox News (sic) or its many imitators, theor what you “know” is wrong. That’s a feature, not a bug.
…the more…
I think we have so many school shootings because:
– The “scientists” won’t acknowledge that the Earth is actually flat and the sun revolves around the center of the universe – us.
– Because we don’t have a picture of Jesus hanging from every stop light.
– Because Barbie no longer hangs out with Ken (she has a lesbian friend now)
– Because the evil government makes us wear seat belts when we drive instead of having freedom to choose
The Shamrock shake and McRib are not available year round.
Made me smile
GOP women are little more than place holders in congress. Their only responsibility is to vote yes on GOP bills. Otherwise they throw bombs or stand behind the men with stern looks on their faces.
Oh, who knows what “causes” each particular American male brain to become deranged and then homicidal. It’s the easy and immediate access to (someone’s) gun arsenal that permits the deranged male brain to engage in the mass slaughter. The easily available gun weaponry allows the deranged fantasy to easily become reality.
Also, too, Ms Black, American mass shootings aren’t limited to sexed-up teen males—see the (completely forgotten) Las Vegas shooting by another deranged American male, fixated on high powered weaponry and some (undiscovered) slight.
Forget it, Jake, it’s Tennessee.
I like her idea that porn in the supermarket is ok with parental guidance.
Parenting must be a lot different in her area….
There’s a certain sort of `logic’ at play that works in the lizard-brain states.
It’s like when the German pornographers attacked Pearl Harbor, did the good guys with massive personal armaments just give up?
She’s just connecting the dots that unpatriotic gun control freaks also support pornography instead of contributing to Kenneth Copeland’s `buy me a personal private religious jet’ fund so I can avoid the steerage swilling demons on commercial jets who will demand prayers for their repulsive spiritual needs.
“It’s like when the German pornographers attacked Pearl Harbor, did the good guys with massive personal armaments just give up?”
Hey, I know that speech.
Mean Grandma thinks this kind of shit will play with the rubes in the rural counties.
I don’t think it will.
The NRA or their wealthy sponosrs have some sort of “think” tank that churns out these feckless, irresponsible “reasons” for gun violence, which, as noted in a prior comment, boils down to: Anything But Guns.
I think gun violence is probably due to the dudes (it’s nearly always men or boys) not taking a good dump that morning. Nothing makes you more gun violenter than being plugged up.
Woe betide us if these precious snowflakes are really constipated.
Of course, if these dudes are constipated it’s all the Libtard’s fault, naturally, and the lack of prayer in skoolz.
But of course she’s right!
Now tell me who’s to blame
The whole world’s fightin’ ’bout the same thing
You know what I mean,
Must be the same old thing that makes the preacher throw his bible down
You tell me Diane has not felt that pull?
It’s obviously all due to Jordan Peterson.
I blame cats. Always getting underfoot, getting you mad, you gotta go take it out on someone, somewhere, and the damned animals are FAST! and small, hard to get a good aim when you’re lying there cursing. So might as well grab your guns and go blow away some easier targets, amirite?
Nope, it’s dogs. They lull you in by pretending to be sycophants, but it’s all a plot.
Think about it, humans were peaceful vegetarians until they started hanging with dogs, and it’s been nothing but war since. It’s a very long term project to rid themselves of their main rival.
We should research how many shooters have had dogs in their past.
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Conservatives have always had trouble with cause and effect. It comes from the way they teach children to disregard what they see in favor of what they’re told is true. It is how they control their tribe.
They think porn causes teen pregnancy, too. Porn causes arousal and/or disgust. Period. If that leads to violence, then some other factor is involved: brain-washing, entitlement, rage, drugs, alcohol, etc.
To grasp that requires logic and critical thinking. Logic and critical thinking are anathema to authoritarian tribal/hive mind processes.
They are never going to see the world from any other viewpoint than the one that supports their tribal beliefs. Trying to convince them otherwise is a fool’s errand.
It’s both a sexual stimulant and provocation for gun attacks. Also, too, she’s a big fan of that stuff that’s both a floor wax and a dessert topping.
. . . “soccer” and call the CTEball played in the NFFL (National Fake Football League) “football”.
Duh.
I mean think about it:
What other country does that? (Rhetorical. Answer: none.)
What other country bathes itself in guns (almost 1/person counting minute-old newborns), including easily available weapons of mass murder whose only design innovations are for killing as many humans in as short a time as legally allowed, ensuring that a deranged male intent on mass murder can easily obtain one and accomplish his goal? In short, what other country tolerates such enabling of increasingly frequent slaughters of its children and their teachers in their schools? (Also rhetorical. Answer: also none.)
Coincidence?