Blameshifting: Nashville, Tennessee Shooting Edition
Blameshifting: Nashville, Tennessee Shooting Edition
Who is responsible for Audrey Hale killing people?
Most of the posts in my social media feeds concerning the Nashville shooting are blaming anyone but the shooter. I saw a church blaming the guns. I saw a woman blaming the government (but not the people who voted those government officials into office).
I saw people blaming the transgender ideology being taught in schools. I saw someone blaming the mental illness that leftism has now become. Below is an excellent article explaining why people on the left are more depressed or mentally ill in some way. It’s because of the drama triangle (always feeling powerless to some persecutor) and because they don’t take personal responsibility but make others responsible for them, which keeps them feeling powerless also. You cannot be confident and happy if you feel powerless in life.
Is the Shooter Responsible For Herself?
Will anyone say they believe the shooter was at fault? Is the blame on her? Or are we just all going to blameshift that responsibility onto her teachers or some supposed “persecutors” who don’t agree with her identifying as another gender?
Parents Do Have Some Responsibility
Yes, I do believe that her parents should have raised her better. Most parents are not raising their children to be responsible adults these days. It is not the teachers’ responsibility to raise children to become moral human beings.
But, still, at some point, you have to become mature and responsible for yourself. She was 28 years old. Surely, she had some responsibility for her actions, right? If she was struggling with hate, she could have sought anger management counseling.
Our Society Enables Mental Derangement
Yes, if she went to someone in the mental health department, they may have been likewise mentally ill and agreed with her drama triangle that there are “persecutors” who need to be destroyed so that the “victims” no longer feel “persecuted.” Rather than help her, they would have joined her in the dreaded drama triangle. That’s worth discussing.
But, still, she could have realized she needed help, and that agreement from others would not help her. She could have sought help elsewhere then. I am sure there are other people in her life who could have done things differently and effected change, but ultimately she had a lot more responsibility for not killing people than society is expecting from her.
I attended the committee hearing of HB 1696 last night. This bill would prevent children from being maimed and injured with surgery or puberty blockers or cross sex hormones. There were three conference rooms full of pink, blue and purple haired, tatted, shaved headed, bearded men wearing dresses and all sorts of “trans” people there, shouting and cheering in the overflow rooms every time they thought they scored a point. I, dressed conservatively and with my gray hair conspicuously looking conservative, was the enemy. Haters, they called us, just because we do not believe the lie that is trans gender. These people are deranged, I have not doubt. They want to remake the world to fit their insanity. I pray for them and us.
She is 100% responsible for her actions on Monday. That doesn't mean other people or movements don't share responsibility. The mental health practitioners who made it illegal for their colleagues to counsel people against transgenderism should be on trial for their part in this. The pharmaceutical companies who push chemicals that cause hormonal imbalance should have to fork over billions of dollars to the families of the dead. Her parents should be thoroughly investigated for their part in this. The LGBT rainbow is rightfully being villified for encouraging the victim mentality that brought her to this place. The "woke" mentality that casts everyone who isn't a cis white male as a victim of oppression should also be told they need to shut up now. The government officials that allow gender mutilation and lifelong chemical castration are also guilty. Ditto the voters who put them into office. And the medical community that prescribes these drugs and amputations without fully working out the ramifications. Possibly the school and church members bear some responsibility too since she was a former student. Some deep soul-searching should be done by all. Most especially a society that teaches life is cheap when we kill the most innocent within the womb is guilty of creating an environment where people think all life is cheap and it's okay to kill people to get the attention you crave. But the shooter is 100% responsible for those six deaths. Everybody else are just unwitting accomplices to her crime.