So you did mean white in terms of race or skin color or sticker to certain principles like an English teacher I had in high school about whom many said she was lily white do to sticking to her principles.
The other choice in using the term WASP is the sometimes used sociological term of 'wealthy Anglo-Saxon Protestant'. Both are used somewhat pejoratively. If I say that I am an African-American, which I am since all humans came out of Africa would that serve any purpose as to whom I am. I could also say that I am Norwegian-American since my mother was second generation of Norwegian parents. It would be pointless as to whom I am as an individual by considering myself as being African-American which does absolutely nothing for how I think of myself. Am I to think of myself as a racist because my paternal grandparents were out and out bigots even a KKK member. Leave that atavistic thinking to the old cultures of the world. What other connotation can there be for the use of white or black than for a possible identification datum for searching for someone. It cannot have anything to do with having self-esteem since that does not depend upon your body type or who your ancestors were but only on how you view yourself as to your ability to live and your worthiness to live.
Just because some need to refer to race or ethnic group or culture, or etc., does not mean that it is something for earning worth or ability.

Please provide sources to reputable studies debunking this link. Also, it may be interesting to note that Brevik specifically played violent video games for a year, while preparing for the carnage, in order to desensitize himself, according to his statement.

Like I said...a material fact. This is a real issue...

White does not mean white in the context of race. Just as African-American does not mean black in the context of race. You're darn right it's my means of identity, in much the same way as African American is Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton's means of identity. Why do you have a problem with that. Are white people somehow lesser to you then African-Americans or Hispanics or any other group that striving for its own self identity. We are all entitled to do it. What's your problem with it.

I think people are basically tribal and look for characteristics that identify members of their tribe.

Do you always think in terms of race? I have only seen two white skinned people in my life an they were women in skin flicks. I have only seen a few black skinned people in my life and they were in Africa. Please learn to distinguish different colors and their range of shades and learn to judge individuals and not collectives. I know it will be hard to do since ethnic groups and cultures are apparently your means of identity.

the dominant culture is WASP! We just have many in government that wish to dilute it.

Which dominant existing culture? U.S.A., Canadian, Mexican, Peruvian, Brazilian, etc. are all American cultures in the Americas.
There is not a necessary need to learn English as long as the government uses just a official language of English. If you want to deal with the government, you would best learn English or find a translator to do your dirty work. People who come here should know that they should do a little research and have enough funds and work experience to survive without needing any more than charity if things don't go well. Otherwise do not choose to come and try to get your own country in to some kind seeker of liberty.

An excellent point.....this is a good example of the old saw..."there are lies, damn lies and statistics!"

By "American" I mean to adopt the dominant existing culture, learn English and meld in to the country....as opposed to staying in little Balkanized groups that stifle the ability of its members to access the mainstream of life. The Democrat party loves this as the groups are already divided and therefore easy to conquer.

As to borders......the only way to succeed with minimal border controls is to have no social safety net whatsoever. Under such a system only those able to work and succeed in society would ever come here. As it is now, someone from a third world hellhole can come here and they will basically "hit the lottery"

Time to cut out the American thing. This is the United States of America. All of North, Middle, and South America are American. Do you really want to be united and ruled or have to ask permission to come and go? I heard someone saying there was nothing wrong with a wall around the USA because their house had walls and that was not a problem. I doubt whether the person, as an adult, has to get permission to go outside of the wall and get permission to go back inside the wall. Governments are too untrustable for me to have to make a plea to be allowed back through a border wall or even out of it. The East Berliners were nice and safe from those outside the wall getting inside the wall and from getting outside of the wall and being harmed by the outsiders.

Japanese statistics are bogus. Unsolved murders are often called suicides, so the investigator doesn't lose face due to inability to solve a case. Many countries have bogus statistics - like the 2% annual inflation rate in the US... right! In Saudi Arabia, for example, if the body does not have an obvious entry wound, it is proclaimed as "death from natural causes," blue marks on the throat notwithstanding.

We certainly could but that would be profiling and in the words of "Tater Salad," Profiling's wrong. Check this out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHPPY...

But here's a real solution from Archie Bunker.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lDb0...

This is an important point that needs reiterating. One of the most common threads in these homegrown mass shootings is the use of the pyscho-active drugs that have been in vogue for over 20 years now.

So...we didn't have mass shootings, before video games came out? Better check your Wikipedia.
I believe the "video game" connection was ruled out, a long time ago. Thank goodness, because my sons would have done their mother and me in, long ago.

Hello, MA,
I struggled, but in the end could not refrain from saying it. What you wrote here is utter nonsense. Do you read your comments before clicking "Reply"? If not, you badly need an editor.
I dislike doing this. Out of respect for the intellectual level to which the Gulch does (or should?) aspire, I felt obligated to point out how sloppy your thinking seems to have been while writing this comment of yours.
You must do better.
Best wishes.
Maritimus

Yes, I do believe that there is a correlation. As to the jihadists, one does not need big data and statistics to figure this one out - read the Koran and all the answers are there. For those that are to lazy to read it, in short, it calls out for all Muslims to eventually take up arms and kill the infidels. Some follow the requirement now, most plan or would like to do that sometime in their life. Need proof - don't ask your government for it, don't ask the media; look for it at the original source - read the Koran.

As to gamers, and add to it that all of them have been Democrats or children of Democrat families, again, there is a connection - lack of responsibility. Every bad situation can be fixed with a reset button. The concept of individual responsibility is strikingly missing in the Democrat/Progressive/Socialist education and upbringing. Although many people have evil thoughts and sometimes fantasies, the process of educating a normal person with the concepts of responsibility and control prevents those fantasies from playing out. Of course, not every Democrat is a mass murderer, but every mass murderer is a Democrat. It is a significant link that cannot be logically denied.

Oh, great this old chestnut comes round again. It has been studied and refuted over and over again that there is no correlation between video games and violence in the real world. It is only because of the prevalence of access to video games that it would be unlikely to find the mass shooter who doesn't have a video game.

News of mass shootings is why I carry a concealed pocket pistol that I know how to shoot.
So if any shooter near me starts a mass shooting, he had better pray to Allah that he shoots people like me first.

As far as I'm concerned, Columbine was fully justified. Those who dismiss the bullying the perps had to put up with as "minor" are missing the point: the state forced them to keep going to the place where it happened. If school authorities or police had been willing to stop the bullies, it would not have been necessary for those kids to get their own justice.

I limit what goes into my kids' brains through their eyes, in terms of tv and video games. I personally don't like violent content as much as the average shmo does. My kids like minecraft. While that can also be overdone and have a numbing effect, it's cool that the kids get into building stuff within the game.

It is my understanding that one recurring theme in the kinds of violent occurrences the article covers is the use of anti-depressants on these kids. To me, it's a material fact - more than just correlation. They know that some who take those drugs will be subject to violent/suicidal tendencies. As the segment of population who takes these drugs continues to grow, it makes sense that we could have this as a result. Just one facet...but one worthy of further study.