Part of me agrees, but I also think that it goes well beyond the weapons -- there is a lot of terror way beyond that, much weighed by the state, and that we'd need to look at more local regional issues. When looking at a map of mass gun shootings, it's interesting that the states with the highest gun ownership per capita - Montana and Wyoming - appear blank. Some of that is population differences, but I think there are also cultural components in how guns are viewed and also which guns are bought.
With gun laws, I think the US would be better going closer to the Swiss model of focusing more on ammunition, having centres which store them rather than on guns. I think there needs to be a shift to that more communal approach, though I don't really see how the US can get there from where it's at.
This suggests that guns are secondary to a primary cause. Mental health.
Or access to high-speed weapons happened. Or increase in media consumption and news. Or changes in diet. Or increases in education rates and laws requiring it. Or many other things.
Pathologizing violence doesn't actually solve anything and actually ignores a lot of the data around how copycat violence happens.
why are teenage boys wired in this way to keep doing this crap.
Wired? Seriously?
maybe American schools can do something simpler, look at school security.
UK school security makes sense when the mass shooting was done by an outsider.
The US ones are more commonly done by school students though, who have a right to be there and for whom current UK security wouldn't really do much - in fact it might make it worse if you have schools like my DDs where there are barriers to leaving as well which would leave those kids sitting ducks in an active shooter situation until someone can release the doors. It's also logistically more difficult with older high school students in the US where in many districts may be studying at 2-3 sites during the day, coming and going at different times which makes the UK practice of locking up the gates at particular times not work well.
Back when my sister and I were born in the 60's and 70's, our birth certificates state that we are of "white" race but of "Mexican" heritage.
Yeah, there has been an issue up to today of American Indigenous and Latino children among others being labeled White on the birth census in the US, even when they stopped putting it on birth certificates. It's a way they fuck with the numbers. Who gets counted as white changes a lot and has little to do with how the families view it.
I actually experienced this a bit in the UK with one of mine, I had a HCP who labeled my child as 'White, Other'. He couldn't be labeled as White British because I'm not, but she wouldn't use my ethnicity either and wouldn't allow me to correct it so by hospital records, my DS was labelled White Other even with no White Other heritage.
Which just goes to show how bonkers America is. The rest of the world sees people of Spanish heritage as white
No they don't. Not everyone who looks at the pictures going around of Salvador Romas is going to see ~Spanish Heritage~ or a White boy. For many of us, what we're seen as varies by viewer, even in the UK, and we are treated differently by how we're viewed. Also, not everywhere uses those European race markers as much as they got exported.
Really, I find your insistence that all Latino people are White very imperialistic and also a bit confusing, like you seem to have forgotten the people who lived there before the Spanish (many who were already colonized which is part of how the Spanish had it so easy, there were a lot of already pissed off people who were easy to divide). After independence, many groups embraced a mixed heritage that combines and yet is outside of those European racial markers.
Seriously, one drop of European blood does not a white person make and Latinos all have different views of our ethnicity and race depending on many factors: in the US, yeah, there is a significant portion who identify as White, but there is also a significant portion who don't and outside of the US, it gets way more complicated how we view ourselves because really, a lot of us have no idea how much mixing we have and many of us don't care.