{"id":111932,"date":"2025-09-01T20:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111932"},"modified":"2025-09-01T20:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T01:36:23","slug":"111932","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=111932","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

What We Didn\u2019t Learn About Mass Murder<\/a><\/p>\n

For every problem there is a quick, cheap, and simple solution.. that doesn\u2019t work. A mentally ill person attacked a church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We\u2019ve been there before. Why are we attracted to solutions that fail time after time?<\/p>\n

We love our children.<\/strong>\u00a0Let\u2019s put up a plastic sign that tells honest people to keep their guns outside our schools. It turns out that murderers are attracted by plastic signs that advertise disarmed victims. We would rather put up another sign than admit that criminals ignore our regulations.<\/p>\n

We love to concentrate on our spiritual life\u00a0at church<\/strong>. It is a rare moment to escape from the pressing cares of the world. Let\u2019s pass a regulation so that honest citizens won\u2019t bring their guns to church. It turns out that our honest neighbors were never a violent problem. Narcissistic mass-murderers look for disarmed victims. These murderers almost always attack \u201cgun-free\u201d zones. Why do we want to make it easier for violent murderers to find their victims?<\/p>\n

We hate the idea that our laws don\u2019t work.<\/strong>\u00a0That is why we require mandatory background checks before someone may buy or own a firearm. Background checks don\u2019t work on criminals because criminals don\u2019t buy their guns at gun shops any more than they buy their drugs at the drug store. Background checks look backwards, and mass-murder is a one-and-done carrier choice.<\/p>\n

In hindsight, mass murderers look crazy.\u00a0<\/strong>Unfortunately, we seldom see mental health professionals diagnose and report a violent patient. We have seen several mass-murderers who were receiving mental health counselling. Experience taught us that mental health treatment isn\u2019t aways a cure. We shouldn\u2019t count on talk-therapy to protect the people we love.<\/p>\n

Maybe you once wanted to hurt your neighbors.<\/strong>\u00a0I\u2019ll bet that feeling left as quickly as it came. Since sober reflection works to stops most of us, we passed mandatory waiting periods in the hope that gun-control regulations would stop violent murderers. It turns out that violent murderers are not like us. They are persistent. They spend years pleasantly planning their violent revenge. Waiting periods don\u2019t stop mass-murderers, but they do disarm honest people who have an urgent need for armed defense. I don\u2019t want our laws to disarm people who flee domestic abuse.<\/p>\n

Politicians sold us ammunition capacity restrictions<\/strong>\u00a0in the hope that less capable murderers would lead to fewer victims. That doesn\u2019t really work in practice. Our honest neighbors defend themselves with a firearm\u00a0about 2.8-million times a year.<\/a>\u00a0The victims are usually the first responders who stop violence. Making the victim less capable doesn\u2019t make us safer when a crazy man attacks a church. We\u2019ve seen what honest defenders can do\u00a0time after time.<\/a><\/p>\n

We are wiser as we grow older.\u00a0That was why we passed age restrictions on firearms purchases and ownership.<\/strong>\u00a0It also turns out that young people are frequent victims of crime. Disarming the co-ed as she walks home from her job at the convenience store doesn\u2019t make us safer. It does make her an easier victim, and that is what criminals look for.<\/p>\n

We know what works.<\/strong> The\u00a0mass-murderers told us what they wanted.<\/a>\u00a0Also,\u00a0we conducted the experiment with armed defenders a few million times.<\/a>\u00a0We\u2019ve never had a mass murderer attack a school that publicly posted a policy of armed school staff. If we want to stop the attack before it happens, then we take down the no-guns signs that attract mass murderers. In public spaces where our neighbors are allowed to defend themselves, we see them\u00a0save the next dozen victims who would die<\/a>\u00a0if we waited for the police to defend us. Unfortunately, defending your school, your church, or your home is harder than passing a law and putting up a plastic sign.<\/p>\n

We know how to save lives. Our doctor tells us to eat moderately and exercise regularly. Armed defense isn\u2019t hard, and it works. Like following our doctor\u2019s advice, the difficult news is that we have to do it every day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What We Didn\u2019t Learn About Mass Murder For every problem there is a quick, cheap, and simple solution.. that doesn\u2019t work. A mentally ill person attacked a church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. We\u2019ve been there before. Why are we attracted to solutions that fail time after time? We love our children.\u00a0Let\u2019s put up a plastic sign … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-111932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=111932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111933,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111932\/revisions\/111933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=111932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=111932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=111932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}