Why Trump Was Shot

 

 

A lone gunman was shot dead after opening fire on former President Donald Trump at a crowded campaign rally this past weekend. 

You likely have seen the headline and watched the video a dozen or more times of Trump getting shot and ducking for cover before rising bravely and waving an angry fist in the air to send his supporters and enemies a strong message.

Pundits will talk of a divided nation and blame heated political rhetoric for instigating and motivating people to resort to settling political battles with guns and violence. But the public still doesn’t know why a 20-year-old took a shot at Trump.

I will tell you why, for the answer is sitting in plain sight.

Society has failed in how it has raised Gen Z. Plain and simple. It is a weaker generation despite all of the social and psychological help made available to them -- and the lowering of education and employment standards given to them. For a lowered bar, we seem to receive even less back.

Suicide rates in the nation are rising annually and are at an all-time high, more common than homicide by double.

Addiction is soaring and opioid overdoses are at an all-time high.

Meanwhile, test scores of Gen Z are in the toilet. Somehow, we have an epidemic of over-anxious, addicted, and medicated kids who can’t perform in the real world, lost to video games, social media, and the endless streaming of content. They are socially awkward, bubble-wrapped, and indoctrinated into a world so woke it is asleep.

Now add in the crazed gun culture. America’s fascination with guns is out of control. The endless arms build-up does not make us safer against a hidden enemy; it makes us more volatile to turning against ourselves and those around us.

Why did a guy not old enough to legally drink have access to his dad’s collection of a dozen guns? Why does his father need so many guns? Why does his dad hand over basically a machine gun, like a toy, to his kid?

Why did a high school have teenagers on a rifle team? Playing with guns is a sport?

This kid was rejected by the rifle team as a bad shooter. Looks like he wanted to desperately prove them wrong, so he practiced and joined a nearby gun club. Why do we have clubs like this? Can’t we have hobbies that don’t obsess over killing and using violence for mere entertainment?

So, why did a bullied and isolated boy who was not in college or learning a trade, at a dead-end job serving meals to elderly senior in a depressing setting (nursing home), take to using an AR-15 against Trump?

It would appear this kid is the poster boy for a lost generation of the bullied and babied, who have easy access to monstrous weapons in a society that normalizes seeing a mass-casualty gun as an embraced toy.

The shooter doesn’t appear to be anti-Trump. No statements online, in writing, or verbally have been linked to such views.

He does not appear to hate Republicans. He is a registered Republican.

The shooting was a matter of laziness. It came to him, right there near his hometown, when Trump came for a visit. This shooter was not training to hunt Trump down across the country. Trump became a convenient target. That’s all.

What better way to force people to see the invisible boy than to take down a man who is seen as a hero to some?

And what better way to kill yourself than suicide-by-cop?

This shooter died way before a Secret Service sniper took him out. We know why he did it. The question now is: How do we address all of the contributing factors?

The nation needs to answer that question and it will require those of all political affiliations to come together on this.

Otherwise, I will be reprinting this and crossing out a few names for when the next mass shooting or assassination attempt takes place.

Can the book world help with this? 

There are already plenty of books on suicide prevention, improving our mental health, reducing gun violence, and on parenting.  Yet, with all of this book advice and mental healthcare, the world is more violent, depressed, and filled with anxious and unproductive people than it was only a generation or two ago. 

Now, to be fair, not everyone in the younger generation is having trouble functioning in life. Many are normal, successful, and thriving. But there are many who are not and we have to look deeper into why -- and find some path to move forward to collectively be better at raising our youth, for society has failed too often so far.

If there are writers who can find a way to help our society — and not just preach, blame, or propose unachievable things — we need them to step forward fast. 

Generation Alpha needs our help..

 

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Brian Feinblum should be followed on www.linkedin.com/in/brianfeinblum. This is copyrighted by BookMarketingBuzzBlog ©2024. Born and raised in Brooklyn, he now resides in Westchester with his wife, two kids, and Ferris, a black lab rescue dog, and El Chapo, a pug rescue dog. His writings are often featured in The Writer and IBPA’s The Independent.  This award-winning blog has generated over 3.9 million pageviews. With 4,900+ posts over the past dozen years, it was named one of the best book marketing blogs by BookBaby  http://blog.bookbaby.com/2013/09/the-best-book-marketing-blogs  and recognized by Feedspot in 2021 and 2018 as one of the top book marketing blogs. It was also named by www.WinningWriters.com as a "best resource.” For the past three decades, including 21 years as the head of marketing for the nation’s largest book publicity firm, and director of publicity positions at two independent presses, Brian has worked with many first-time, self-published, authors of all genres, right along with best-selling authors and celebrities such as: Dr. Ruth, Mark Victor Hansen, Joseph Finder, Katherine Spurway, Neil Rackham, Harvey Mackay, Ken Blanchard, Stephen Covey, Warren Adler, Cindy Adams, Todd Duncan, Susan RoAne, John C. Maxwell, Jeff Foxworthy, Seth Godin, and Henry Winkler. He hosted a panel on book publicity for Book Expo America several years ago, and has spoken at ASJA, BookCAMP, Independent Book Publishers Association Sarah Lawrence College, Nonfiction Writers Association, Cape Cod Writers Association, Willamette (Portland) Writers Association, APEX, Morgan James Publishing, and Connecticut Authors and Publishers Association. His letters-to-the-editor have been published in The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, New York Post, NY Daily News, Newsday, The Journal News (Westchester) and The Washington Post. His first published book was The Florida Homeowner, Condo, & Co-Op Association Handbook.  It was featured in The Sun Sentinel and Miami Herald.