Does reading Harry Potter make you a school shooter?

Isn't Kantbot one of us?
Why is he making bad tweets.

>"The next person to infringe on my second amendment is getting shot"
is much better.

>Well, the paths available to a Western white male are pathological to the degree that it's surprising that we don't see more of them desu.
Most just kill themselves.

Miltary hardware isn't available to civilians, rifles aren't military just because they're made of black plastic instead of wood.

That said, the gun banning ship has sailed long ago so it would be good to focus on mental illness instead, another thing that America is world leader in.

Was Kantbot the fat guy talking about German idealism and Thule on television?

The tiger
He has not destroyed his cage
No
NO
The tiger is not out

American culture has been hung up on violent retribution/redemption for a long time desu. For an American, the noblest thing you can do is be the "good guy" and kill people

I grew up with Harry Potter and the rest of that list and neither me nor any acquaintance ever went on a shooting spree.
Maybe the problem lies with *mericans and their gun boner, not with Harry Potter or feminist art projects or whatever.

>Miltary hardware isn't available to civilians,
>Americans run around with gigantic rifles and shoot each other
>somehow that's not military hardware

Further proof that the US is as culturally distant from Europe as Iran

Every person I know who read Harry Potter as a child came out emotionally and intellectually stunted. Those books have a lobotomizing effect for sure, but I doubt theyre causing any of this violence.

>Miltary hardware isn't available to civilians, rifles aren't military just because they're made of black plastic instead of wood.

what's a legitimate civilian application for the ar15 that couldn't be fulfilled by other firearms that are also less convenient for gunning down crowds?

I have my little theory that a big chunk of "people of Asperger's" are simply archetypes of traditional men. The modern world is unbearable to them, with its hyper-socialisation, its loud noises and bright lights. And this modern world is unescapable.
So generally they "burnout", but sometimes, with the addition of bullying or something else, they snap and fight back. That's how Ted Kacynski started bombing people and how others became school shooters.

No but public schooling does. They need to abolish the entire school curriculum and replace it with periodic standardized testing. Parents will be in charge of their child's education. Private schools or voluntary communal schools could be alternatives.

newstatesman.com/culture/2018/02/jk-rowling-created-army-liberals-now-they-are-turning-against-her

>Alice’s magic wand is made of pine, and it has a phoenix feather in its core. The 17-year-old Italian knows this because she uses Pottermore, a website where Harry Potter fans take quizzes to find out what life would be like if they lived in the wizarding world. On Twitter, she spends two hours a day updating her profile with clips, quotations and pictures from the books and films. But while Alice loves everything about Harry Potter (she has read each of the seven books 14 times), she does not like JK Rowling.

>“I strongly dislike her,” Alice (who does not wish to disclose her surname) says. “I just think she wrote many beautiful things in Harry Potter, but she doesn’t live up to them in real life.”

They're the complete opposite of a traditional man. They are, more than anyone else, a product of our rotten american society. Also this doesn't happen in other western countries, unsurprisingly.

Free to buy guns but you can’t play online poker or drink alcohol in the street

hm

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youtube.com/watch?v=9l7y0mO70V0

There are like a million better philosophers than Plutarch he could have used as examples.

>dude let’s abolish the sacred rights of hundred of millions of innocent civilians lmao

whoa... so this your brain on gun control...

Overthrowing the bourgeoisie

>"archetypes"

>Don't read Plutarch
>become violent maniac

Is it bound to happen to me too?

this is backwards, if they were traditional men they would be fighting tooth and nail to make the world conform to their will, instead they just sit there and wait for the world to spontaneously meet their fantasies and desires, growing more frustrated until they finally decide to punish the world for the imaginary crime of not pandering to them enough.

yes

You know absolutely nothing about guns

>owning a gun is a sacred right
Stop being melodramatic.
I think there are a good deal of young men who feel they have no place in society because of those things. Still wouldn't go as far as to say they're the cause of this violence.

>ITT:

Why were there not regular school shooting before? Were guns hard to come by in the past?

Or is it that culture has changed?

I'll give up my right to own guns when the rich and the state give up their fascist bodyguards (the police and military)

yes

youtube.com/watch?v=iOk6HB609po

>all rifles are military

gunning down crowds is the whole purpose of the second amendment. how are you going to defend yourself from tyranny with weapons that aren't good at shooting people?

if anything select fire and full auto weapons need to be available to citizens for that purpose.

i'm not even a yank desu but this is all pretty obvious.

Ban the ar15 and all you have done is gotten rid of a single type of semi automatic rifle. Blaming all the mass shootings on a single rifle and banning it because it looks scary is not going to do anything

rebellion to tyranny is obedience to god, come and take our firearms yourself you fucking coward you want to send the police to do you dirty work of oppression

Back then we just went West and shot dirty fucking Injuns on the way.

This is actually really disgusting if you think about it. A fucking dickhead on twitter blaming education to distract away from the fact that allowing people to carry guns freely leads to people using said guns because he's brainwashed by the gun lobby. Americans will do or say anything to defend their capitalist overloads.

>because he's brainwashed by the gun lobby.
I doubt a fat fuck who's a big fan of German idealism ever got in contact with the gun lobby. God forbid people actually have convictions and opinions about things, right?

gun rights are the most egalitarian thing in the world, m8

No schools no school shootings kiddo

American Communists are pro-gun tho

i think he means that they should be reading about the lives of great men for instruction but i'm pretty sure if eric harris or whoever read the lives of caesar and alexander he would just conclude that he totally deserves to be as respected as those guys except the assholes at school are failing to recognize it and thus need to get shot.

>the oppressors would benefit from an armed populace

lmao read 10 pages of marx you moronic neoliberal zombie

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." -Mao

"Only the capitalist establishment should have guns." -You

Europe commie here. Having guns is uncivilised.

>Europe commie
Redundant.

The gun lobby don't influence people directly. They influence people through politics. You think every conservative who believes climate change is a hoax is personally paid by BP?

So is civilians not having access to guns without legitimate reason.

The only argument for an armed populace is ideological. In reality, its been proven to be a bad idea. Just because Marx or George Orwell or whatever said something doesn't mean I'll agree with it.

Euro non-Meds deserve the wall.

That's idiotic. Do you actually believe you'll achieve a Communist state through peaceful democratic means alone?

No, that person is just a complete moron.

>don't defend yourself it's against bourgeois values!

You're a sad excuse for a commie.

While I do think the availability of guns are what makes these attacks possible, it doesn't create the desire to carry them out. It wouldn't surprise me if the things listed really do alienate young men to such a point.

>So is civilians not having access to guns without legitimate reason.
No, that is anti-egalitarian because then only the henchmen of the political class are armed. This shouldn't be that hard a concept to grasp.

>Americlaps unironically think that a bunch of rednecks with guns could oppose the strongest military in the world

The proletariat not having the means to preform revolution is a good thing?

Vy komunisti jste takoví zkurvenci až je mi z toho na blití. V SSSR by tě nechali zastřelit, vole.

Pea shooters aren't the "means to revolution" against a government that, if properly motivated, could smear your town across the map.

wouldn't be the first time the us military got BTFO by peasants

Except they have shown to be exactly that in every revolution since the pea shooter was invented.

My man, did you just confuse Plutarch with Plotinus?

>Kantbot

Neo-Nazi pseud opinion discarded

>it doesn't create the desire to carry them out

I think it does. Its been proven when you are carrying a weapon such as knife, you're more likely to use it in a situation that doesn't warrant it. And no, reading Harry Potter and being educated on feminism doesn't make people kill a bunch of fellow humans. Its mental illness, propaganda such as the crap Kantbot is spewing and access to guns.

>only the henchmen of the political class are armed
>legitimate use

It would be nice if we didn't have a political class, but even in a neo-marxist society there will still to be people trusted to protect others with access to weapons. Weapons aren't even useful for revolution, revolutions happen when the military stops protecting the ruling class, not when a bunch of randroids decide to take over a government compound and holding out a few months before getting taken out.

The proletariat doesn't exist anymore brainlet

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All of those are extremely unrealistic, especially if you consider Americans are a bunch of obese ADHD morons.

Interesting, thanks

Zzzzz.....

if you want to be generous he might have been thinking of moralia which do have philosophical material in them although the tweet is pretty obviously referring to lives

Not sure, OP, but I know I sure wanted to shoot up a school after slogging my way through one of the dullest franchises in the history of movie franchises. Seriously each episode following the boy wizard and his pals from Hogwarts Academy as they fight assorted villains has been indistinguishable from the others. Aside from the gloomy imagery, the series’ only consistency has been its lack of excitement and ineffective use of special effects, all to make magic unmagical, to make action seem inert.

Perhaps the die was cast when Rowling vetoed the idea of Spielberg directing the series; she made sure the series would never be mistaken for a work of art that meant anything to anybody, just ridiculously profitable cross-promotion for her books. The Harry Potter series might be anti-Christian (or not), but it’s certainly the anti-James Bond series in its refusal of wonder, beauty and excitement. No one wants to face that fact. Now, thankfully, they no longer have to.

>a-at least the books were good though
"No!"
The writing is dreadful; the book was terrible. As I read, I noticed that every time a character went for a walk, the author wrote instead that the character "stretched his legs."

I began marking on the back of an envelope every time that phrase was repeated. I stopped only after I had marked the envelope several dozen times. I was incredulous. Rowling's mind is so governed by cliches and dead metaphors that she has no other style of writing. Later I read a lavish, loving review of Harry Potter by the same Stephen King. He wrote something to the effect of, "If these kids are reading Harry Potter at 11 or 12, then when they get older they will go on to read Stephen King." And he was quite right. He was not being ironic. When you read "Harry Potter" you are, in fact, trained to read Stephen King.

The government has violated my second amendment rights by taking away my legal ownership of icbm's and mustard gas. We can't have the proper means to defend ourselves as a militia against a tyrannical government without Apache attack helicopters.

>being educated on feminism doesn't make people kill a bunch of fellow humans
I disagree. There's a rather large subset of men who are well aware that the advancements of women have been at their expense. These men then project their worthlessness onto the rest of the population and channel their anger into violence against them.

And so-called benefits feminism claims it has for men are immaterial.

Switzerland is the country with the highest gun ownership alongside the US and yemen, yet there are absolutely no mass shooting/school shooting/gun criminality. It's just that the US is fucked up. Not the guns. You have drawers full of knives, you know. You have way better odds surviving a gun wound than a knife wound.

This but unironically.

It's a reference to Rousseau who read Plutarch as a child and said children should read Plutarch

>implying the military isnt just a bunch of rednecks with guns

>Interesting, thanks
Do you realize that's all made up, right?

Super jezik, morončino. Samo retardirani komunisti koji ne znaju ništa o povijesti žele da se SSSR ponovi.

>There's a rather large subset of men who are well aware that the advancements of women have been at their expense

You mean a rather large subset of young men who've been brainwashed by alt-right propaganda and, contrary to what we said, actually WEREN'T educated on feminism?

>And so-called benefits feminism claims it has for men are immaterial.

This makes no sense. By definition any societal benefit is immaterial or abstract.

American politics is a CIA ploy lmao kinda crazy americans don't even WANT to know.

shhhhhhh goy don't look at history you might learn something :^((( just watch colbert and consume consume consume CONSUME CONSUME CONSUMECONSUMECONSUMECONSMEUCONSMEUCOSNEUMCMEONSUCONSUUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMMEEEEEEE

And tanks, elicopters, technology, resources, etc

>sniveling commies want the exact capitalist government they despise to send their cronies and police to disarm the people

Wewing my lads

if you allow the political class to determine what reasons to own guns are legitimate then overthrowing them will never be one of them.

also, the military will stop protecting the ruling class a lot sooner if they are forced to fight their fellow countrymen in a situation where the latter actually poses a threat.

you're severely underestimating what an armed and determined populace can do.

Has Veeky Forums ever parsed a sentence before?

Všichni komouši jsou retardovaní by default.

(Kinda interesting how "povijest" seems to mean "history". In Czech "pověst" means "legend". Similal, yet fundamentally diferent.)

>You mean a rather large subset of young men who've been brainwashed by alt-right propaganda and, contrary to what we said, actually WEREN'T educated on feminism
No one living in a western country doesn't have a rudimentary education to feminsim. Your ideology is the propaganda; stop blaming the victims who dare to respond.
> This makes no sense. By definition any societal benefit is immaterial or abstract.
Feminsim has caused serious improvements to the material conditions of women's lives. Men have gained nothing of the sort from it, and when it comes down to it have probably lost quite a bit.

I only opened the thread to find this post. Well done, user.

No, you morons. You take guns only for the revolution and then get rid of them. How do you expect your country to be civilised if you have cunts with guns everywhere? And why do you think you need so many guns? Vietnam fucking destroyed America even though America had better equipment. And in the Russian revolution soldiers fucking joined the people they were ordered to shoot. There's no excuse to have cunts walking around with guns everywhere. Go fetishise something else.

Who do you think the soldiers in the army are?

Kantbot is an extremely disappointing human being because you know that he can apply himself to something if he really tried but he's afraid of rising out of his mediocrity in any meaningful way and therefore covers it up with some really cynical self-defeating humor. He doesn't want to be taken seriously because he's afraid of being judged seriously. He thinks he's hit this intellectual sweet spot where he can say anything he wants but really he is trapped by his irony and cowardice. Certainly there's nothing wrong with wielding humor, but it's extremely obvious that he is being disingenuous and defensive when he does. He may think it's low cost to build his persona around saying ridiculous things nobody can fully take seriously but it's only going to snowball and harm him in the long run. On here this only ever works because everyone's anonymous.

We don't though. American citizens could've taken the guns off the police and military any time they wanted by voting democrat until they could get enough regulations past to restrict their use. The problem is, Americans have been brainwashed into thinking if everyone doesn't have guns the world will end. There is always going to have to be someone who decides who gets access to weapons and what a legitimate use for them is.

>overthrowing them will never be one of them.

I've said before, you can't overthrow the government with guns alone. You need the military to either allow you get to the political class or be on your side. Which typically happens once a large enough amount of citizens start rioting/protesting, because the military are going to have family members in that group and start to sympathize. Even if you don't have access to weapons, in the case of tyranny its still relatively straightforward to even the ground. The IRA still managed to fight the British government with bombs and so forth.

Is this was school in Florida is like, I don't remember any of this.

>stop blaming the victims who dare to respond.
Why doesn't this happen in the other western countries, which are often far more advanced on equality issues?
Really makes you think doesn't it.

I have to agree that many communists are retarded by default, but I have to put capitalists in that category too. Both systems are a train wreck.

(What exactly does zkurvenci mean? I know the kurva part meaning prostitute. Hehe kurva is something that all slavs share.)