{"id":4761,"date":"2018-02-18T05:04:38","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T05:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/18\/school-shootings-its-the-culture-stupid\/"},"modified":"2018-02-18T05:04:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T05:04:38","slug":"school-shootings-its-the-culture-stupid","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2018\/02\/18\/school-shootings-its-the-culture-stupid\/","title":{"rendered":"School Shootings: It’s the Culture, Stupid"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is not guns that are the problem, but the culture that liberals and leftists have created. We've got plenty of gun control; what we need now is liberal control. The contributors to the piss-poor pages of the NYT<\/em>'s Op-Ed section need to STFU and listen to someone with sense such as Andrew Klavan<\/a> (emphasis added):<\/span><\/p>\n

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. . . rap music<\/a> with its hateful, violent and misogynistic lyrics, and video games like Grand Theft Auto<\/em><\/a>, where you can have sex with a prostitute then strangle her or pull an innocent person out of a car, beat him, then steal his vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n

. . .  a culture in which those in authority approve of and argue for things like gangsta rap<\/a> and GTA<\/a> \u2014 and indeed for the use of violence <\/a>to silence speech that offends them \u2014 well, such a culture becomes a machine for transforming madness into murder.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The left wants to defend gangstas and "transgressive" art and antifa thugs \u2014 but when the shooting starts, they blame the guns.<\/span><\/p>\n

The left wants to get rid of<\/a> feminine modesty and masculine protectiveness and social restrictions on sex \u2014 but when the abuse and rape and harassment rise to the surface, they start whining about toxic manhood. Perhaps they should have listened to the Catholic apologist G.K. Chesterton<\/a>, who wrote about the difference between reforming society and deforming it \u2014 a passage that was neatly paraphrased by John F. Kennedy: "Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Now the left wants to legitimize disrespect for the flag<\/a> and for Christianity<\/a>. They want to ignore the rule of law at the border and silence protests against Islamic ideas that are antithetical to every good thing the west stands for. They should look to Europe where all that's been accomplished. And now, when European women are molested in the public square, the gormless authorities advise them to behave more modestly<\/a> lest immigrants get the wrong idea. When Islamic knives come out and Islamic bombs go off, the police rush to harass \u2014 who? Those who question <\/a>the dictates of the Koran.<\/span><\/p>\n

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For fifteen years and more, I have been complaining that the right is silenced in our culture \u2014 blacklisted and excluded and ignored in entertainment, mainstream news outlets, and the universities. But the flip side of that is this: the degradation of our culture is almost entirely a leftist achievement. Over the last fifty years, it's the left that has assaulted every moral norm and disdained every religious and cultural restraint.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The left owns the dismal tide.<\/strong> They don't like the results? They're looking for someone or something to blame? Maybe they should start by hunting up a mirror.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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It is not guns that are the problem, but the culture that liberals and leftists have created. We've got plenty of gun control; what we need now is liberal control. The contributors to the piss-poor pages of the NYT's Op-Ed section need to STFU and listen to someone with sense such as Andrew Klavan (emphasis … Continue reading “School Shootings: It’s the Culture, Stupid”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112,180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alcohol-tobacco-and-firearms","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4761"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4761\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}