Fixing 'broken boys' - not stripping gun rights - would stop mass shootings, exp

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Fixing 'broken boys' - not stripping gun rights - would stop mass shootings, experts say
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/28/fixing-broken-boys-not-stripping-gun-rights-would-stop-mass-shootings-experts-say.html

Most humans cannot fathom — or choose not to fathom — the depths of depravity that would allow a young man to shoot up a school filled with children.

“You don’t shoot up a high school without thinking about it for a very, very, very, long and dark time,” said Dr. Jordan Peterson, a psychologist at the University of Toronto. “You go places when you’re doing that that no reasonable person would ever want to go.”

It is not about guns. It goes way beyond guns.

Some believe the roots of the mass-shooting phenomenon may lie in the 1960s Cultural Revolution. That epochal time brought welcome change to discrimination against women and minorities. But many contend it led to the tossing out of deeply imbedded traditions of Western Culture from art, architecture, literature, family structure, and traditional roles.

“It’s almost impossible to express how much more important it is to be a mother or a parent who guides rearing and development of a child than it is to be a mere research scientist,” Yale University computer sciences professor David Gelernter said.

Gelernter is blunt about his belief that the ‘60s revolution replaced rigorous scholarship in the American academy with dumbed-down curricula — hurting even Ivy League students.

There were things changing after the 1950s.

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"Broken boys" will always exist. The challenge remains in identifying them and removing them from society if they cannot be fixed, all this while preserving their constitutional rights.