Have Lockdowns Made Troubled People Even More Dangerous? Uvalde Suggests So

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Have Lockdowns Made Troubled People Even More Dangerous? Uvalde Suggests So

The last two years have been a poignant lesson on what our founders understood about tyranny and the importance of citizens owning guns.

BY: ANNA ZEIGLER
MAY 26, 2022

It is human nature to cry out when we are in pain, be it physical or emotional, or when we are filled with fear. To whom someone cries in such times tells you a lot about a person. I cannot recall a stretch of time during which people, some of them individuals I once believed to be rational thinkers, have cried out to the government repeatedly and unashamedly, begging to be rescued from all manner of things, as I have witnessed in the last two years.

The last two years have been a ceaseless montage of government ineptness as local, state, and federal leaders attempted to mitigate Covid-19, an airborne virus that thwarted them at every turn, continuing to do exactly what airborne viruses do: spread regionally and seasonally in waves that defied school closures, economically-crippling lockdowns, masks, and vaccines. The trampling of liberty across the globe was expected in some places where liberty was long ago stamped out, astounding to watch in places like Australia, and frightening to witness right here in America.

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Recently two young men aged eighteen shot multiple people. These young men were sixteen when school closures began in the spring of 2020. It is impossible to know to what extent the isolated, chaotic world these two young men navigated the past two years affected their mental states just as the overall effects of school closures will not be known for some time, but all signs point to myriad issues for students young and old, issues ranging from serious educational gaps to debilitating mental and emotional issues.

As is so often their way, in attempting to address one issue, Covid, the government exacerbated issues that were already festering among young people. We have arguably ignored these issues since Columbine, perhaps before, because it is more emotionally satisfying to argue over guns and pretend young men are unaffected by broken homes, a lack of male role models, and a culture that denigrates masculinity and devalues human life.

I am a proponent of individual accountability, and nothing — not school closures, not trouble with the law, not family issues, and not cultural rot — excuses anyone for heartlessly killing others. I am also a proponent of attempting to address an issue with every piece of the puzzle in place rather than arguing over a corner piece that in no way is representative of the full picture.

It is past time we ask ourselves a few questions. The puzzle pieces that are so often ignored in the aftermath of a mass shooting are the mental health of the shooter, the unwillingness or inability of law enforcement to enforce existing laws that so often are violated by the shooter, and finally, and perhaps most heartbreaking and perplexing, our refusal to secure schools.

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Source:  https://thefederalist.com/2022/05/26/have-lockdowns-made-troubled-people-even-more-dangerous-uvalde-suggests-so/