“Instant everything and social media and their platforms overload is what is causing these.
I know men who have boyfriends. Don't conflate gay men with rape.
I don't have the same views on guns as her.
This is some next-level obfuscation. I guess doors didn't really stick so now it's screens? You know one other thing that America is super-exceptional for, that MIGHT be relevant to mass gun death?
I do find it interesting that you make a post like this just because you disagree with me. While I advocate for data backed solutions which are less politically charged, and thereby more likely to be acceptable to both sides.
Yet we can't find any evidence of gun control actually resulting in lowering violent crime or murder rates... And even if we could, could never get rid of guns.
Hello,
Rasta is British I believe
Rasta lives here but that has nothing to do with perspective about such things....I've lived for a long stretch in Taiwan (20 years)where they have gun laws banning private ownership and England has only manually chambered sporting guns allowed....an unarmed population is safer. Rasta has lived in both as have I......people who haven't don't understand the comparisons sometimes and people with world knowledge also have valid opinions...I am a Viet nam veteran but I've spent 20 years living in asia, mostly Taiwan and speak the language...yes I know about asian culture and have family in both countries. Of course living there expands your knowledge of their culture.my wife is Taiwanese and now an american citizen...she's been in America as long as I was in Taiwan...we can both speak about politics and cultural differences coming from experience...she knows what America is like just like any other citizen..not getting your point.
you're kidding right? Taiwan is probably the most computer literate and screen addicted nation in the world.....they are gamers just like kids here but mom and dad don't have guns they can take out and shoot up the school with...big difference....my son went to public school there and public school here. He's a gamer. I personally think games that train young kids to kill and acquire weapons to win do have an impact on society but in a country like ours....a troubled kid can access the real thing...in Taiwan they cannot or it is almost impossible to attain a gun and ammunition....here you can collect them like baseball cards.
I'd just like to point out that UK saw homicide rates increase after their expanded gun control in the 90s... Brazil saw the same thing after their gun control in the 2000s.
I hold dual citizenship and have lived in the States for more than 30 years.
Taiwanese spend 6 days a week in school and have tutors in the evenings after school so school is more important there but they are every bit as involved in screen use even in school. In Taiwan you need to pass a college entrance exam in high school to get higher education and there's a quota so parents put kids in cram schools to prepare to pass that test...that's a big pressure that kids here don't have. Education is way more part of their lives than here..but that education involves computers more than our education here as well. Taipei Times is run by mostly expat americans , just so you know, it's the local paper printed in english there....if you read the Chinese papers, it's a bit different.
actually the time spent with kids is not with parents...it's with grandparents...parents work long hard hours and grandparents mostly raise the kids and pick them up from school or take them to school, etc...you can ask me anything about Taiwan...I watch taiwan news daily...I don't need you to cut and paste articles about it for me...I'm sure you find it interesting but I lived and worked there and raised a child there....have nieces and nephews there, etc...so I know Taiwan. What they don't have there are guns.
So I guess you don't give a shit about all the gun fatalities that can't even remotely be blamed on child-rearing?
show me how many mass shootings of innocents compare especially children in schools in those countries.....homicide is often linked to organized crime ...that's not a fair comparison to mass shootings in movie theatres hospitals, churches and schools....the IRA was at war with England so they had an armed resistance that also contributed to homicides just like our organized crime here. that's always been around. You're not selling me on guns lowering murderrates though...they don't.
it's not semantics...it's culture...you asked about understanding culture....I explained part of it...you don't have to understand it if you don't wish to. I understand it from decades of living there