This Sunday’s shooting at a Texas church, last month’s massacre in Las Vegas, and so many more, have raised once again the debates around gun control on the left and of course mental health on the right. But there’s a causal factor here that no one is talking about which is the way we discipline children. While a broader brush is warranted, I specifically talk of spanking. In short, the prevalence of spanking as a form of discipline is a much bigger contributing factor in why some people go on killing rampages than anyone cares to admit.
I want you to take a look at this infographic from USA Today. I don’t know about you, but my first takeaway from this is that mass shootings are way more common than most people realize. The FBI defines such an event as four or more victims. By that definition, there have been 276 mass shootings this year alone. Sutherland Springs was only the eighth mass shooting so far this month. People talk of Sandy Hook, Pulse Nightclub, San Bernardino, VA Tech, Columbine, Aurora, Ft Hood, and others, but it seems as though at least ten people need to get killed before it’s national news. How many people outside South Florida recall the incident at Ft Lauderdale Airport earlier this year? Or, how many people outside New Orleans remember the Louisiana Pizza Kitchen shooting?
The second takeaway for me on that infographic was that about half of the mass killings since 2013 were against family.
[For more on this story by MICHAEL PATRICK LEWIS, go to http://natmonitor.com/2017/11/...-and-mass-shootings/]
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