When a society is put under stress it's members look for somebody to blame and punish for their problems. - Consider the way that overcrowded rats start fighting and biting at each other as one example of this.
The scapegoat theory of intergroup conflict provides an explanation for the link between hard times and increases in prejudice and violence toward out-groups.
- In this very emotional time - following the cruel shootings & murders of 50 innocent worshipers in two Christchurch mosques - licensed firearms owners are being regarded as members of an outsider group and held responsible without trial.
In the Bible, a scapegoat is an animal that is ritually burdened with the sins of others, and then driven away. The concept first appears in Leviticus, - in which a goat is designated to be cast into the desert to carry away the sins of the community.
- There is also a similar unjust system of the 'Whipping Boy' in slave owning societies .. where there was a tradition of bringing-up aristocratic young boys with a slave companion .. and it not being socially acceptable to punish or strike a member of the noble master classes - his slave was scapegoated for any youthful criminal act.
To correct the young master's behavior, it was custom to subject his young slave to punishment, such as flogging. The master-child would be made to watch his companion-slave undergoing the flogging, thus inflicting the lesson upon him. The physical suffering being seen as too cruel to inflict upon aristocratic children.
Shooters hoping for logic, common sense, or even basic justice are wasting their time - as our shocked and grieving country is in no mood for reason.
Ordinary folk need their SCAPEGOAT to punish for their shock and horror - and we gun owners are being pointed at by the GUN-BANNERS as the guilty ones.
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