Gun control activists are quick to blame mass shootings on the proliferation of firearms, but are less likely to point to the proliferation of fatherless households.
Yet research shows that school shooters tend to come from broken homes, where one or more parent is absent, addicted or abusive.
Blaming guns is easy. It's an inanimate object. Kinda like how Rosie O'Donnell's fork made her fat, right? But actually doing something to reverse the trend of boys being raised by only their mothers might actually be HARD, and force people to actually DO SOMETHING, so that's ignored while people cry about guns in a country that has always had guns, but not always had mass shootings.
There were shooting clubs in high schools all over this country in the 50's and 60's. Kids brought their shotguns to school with them so that they could go hunting after school, and they didn't shoot the school up. What changed?
Well, I'm one of the few people I know who was raised by parents who never got a divorce. Try that on for size.
Maybe start reversing the culture that says it's OK to pump and dump a girl. Start reversing the culture that says it's OK to rip a kid away from their father because mommy found a newer, richer guy that made her lady-bits quiver. Start reversing the culture that says it's OK to raise a kid in a single parent house.
But that would be hard. So they blame the gun.
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