In a normal society, strangers killing each other, *particularly* children murdering other children, would signal a huge alarm bell that something is seriously wrong. The canary in the coal mine so to speak.
The more dysfunctional a society, the more we see absolutely dysgenic behavior like incest, murder, self mutiliation (tattoos, trannies, etc.).
Michael Moore made this the theme of his film about the Littleton, CO shootings, Bowling for Columbine.
Manson said the main issue was fear. Well, what do you think 2 years locked down covering the face when you are a socially developing teenager, does for your mental health. Would that cause some fear and anxiety? You betcha.
Moore concurs, and also brings up the fact that the US cannot kill thousands of foreign brown people abroad and pretend it won't have implications back home, and in fact there was a strong correlation between massive weapons manufacturing and Littletown, CO.
They also point to the tie between fear and capitalistic consumption. Of course, we saw plenty of that in the wake of 9-11 when President Dubya told people the best way they could help was to "go out and shop." Well, with the rampant inflation and labor and goods shortages, the outlet of consumption is not available as a pressure release valve. When there is no release valve, pressure builds up until there is an explosion. Could that be what we've seen here?
But Moore's biggest point in the film (as well as Dave Cullen's excellent book Columbine) was really that no one was looking at the actual causes or wondering why this was happening. Of course, they did the same thing after 911 where any attempt to understand exactly what happened and why was met with condemnation that you were "siding with terist" because literally nothing could justify what had happened. Well, that's a nice story if you believe it.
I predict society will also fail to analyze why this shooting happened.
Of course analysing why these events happen is the first step to stopping them. Much as society is not concerned about the majority of births being out of wedlock bastards, or the majority of marriages ending in divorce. No, we don't want to "blame" anyone so we just cover our eyes and ears and pretend that bad things just happen randomly without reason.
Will the second amendment be rescinded?
No, primarily because "they" don't care enough about an armed population.
Sure, they fear violent action, and the last thing they would want is anyone using the strategies of Ted Kaczynski -- targeting of elites in academia and business -- and violently removing them (note that he never used a gun--the fear is in his thinking and who he targeted, not his means).
But when are elites ever threatened by the public?
There are millions and millions of guns in America. Are they ever used to defend against tyranny? Maybe once every 20 years or so, and then the state comes down with such brutality, as they did in Waco, TX, and in fact as they did way back during the Whiskey Rebellion in the 1700s, they brutally put down anyone opposing their power.
The days of forcefully opposing the government are gone. The Covid lockdowns proved that they have far more control over us by controlling our ability to buy and sell (a new non-private digital currency bill was introduced last month) than they ever could with force.
Plus, on top of that, America has this weird worship of the 2nd Amendment. You can figuratively tear up every single one of the other bill of rights, but if you say anything bad about using weaponry, you are an evil traitor! So it's simply impractical for them to end the 2nd Amendment.
It is both not useful, and difficult pragmatically to end the mass ownership of weapons by the public. But sure, it will change a bit. If I had to guess, the model would be what they've done with every other "freedom" we have, which is that we magnify the worst parts of the freedom and curtail the best parts: IE prosecute Julian Assange for telling the truth while having free pornography available to anyone with an internet service, and call that "freedom of speech".
So we will get all the worst parts of the "freedom" while the good parts are attacked. By that analogy, I would expect that hunting will become more difficult,rifles and other long guns and other white-people-weapons will be restricted, but there will be plenty of armed hoodrats, and the handgun favored by criminals everywhere, will proliferate.
If the Second Amendment can be scrapped, 'they' might well do away with the First Amendment, too and introduce hate speech laws.
They have already scrapped every single one of the bill of rights, except the one about quartering soldiers (which was just replaced by a trillion dollar military that in contravention to the Constitution that forbids a standing army for more than 2 years, spends lavishly on foreign and domestic bases where these soldiers have no need to quarter in your house, as they have housing built for them to use all around the world). They have even already passed
hate speech laws (though they are less onerous than the European ones so far)
Do you believe this is under threat?
Can Americans be convinced to give up their guns?
What are the implications, if so?
The implications would be a lot of faux outrage from boomers if the 2nd Amendment were seriously revised.
What the elites really dislike is any sort of cohesive or organized opposition to what they represent, which is why even when this forum was organized around fornication, it because public enemy number one when nationwide meetups were planned. So the plan is to continually destroy the family, destroy rural life, and then there is no future threat of an armed militia or breakaway movement or anything. The fear is the organization, much moreso than the armed component.
How do I feel about firearms personally? I was raised in southern gun culture, learned to shoot long guns in Boy Scouts and with family and friends. I have never desired to own firearms. I think the collective reasoning of America will move through 3 stages:
1) Guns are fun to hunt with if you are in to that
2) Guns are an essential form of self defense as crime levels approach Brazil and South Africa
3) Guns become a huge liability, as they are no longer primarily used as a tool to kill meat to eat, or to have around for home protection, but they quickly become a tool used by the common thug to commit crimes. Guns in America today usually mean "that guy likes to hunt deer." Guns in Brazil mean "I like to carjack toursists and old ladies"
We are somewhere between 1 and 2 right now.
Basically, they will remove the desire for gun ownership itself, as they make America a fundamentally different country than it was before. John Adams said as much:
Once the character of America changes significantly, you will not WANT Americans to have weapons.