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soldierant

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8. The problem is that the problem is not simple.
Mon Jul 28, 2025, 04:26 PM
Jul 28

It has many faces, and needs more than a single change.

Training is certainly a big one.

But I would put at the top of the list the way children, especially but not limited to boys, are taught to recognize masculinity in America. May I quote John Pavlovitz? "Parents, if you don't want you sons to be lonely, stop raising them to be misogynistic assholes."

If we could manage to deal with that, then dealing with the proliferation of guns nationwide, the ease of obtaining a gun, including without qualifying under existing laws, the issue of regulating guns, the issue of enforcing regulation, and other issues related to people mentally associating guns with masculinity.

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