Vain Jangling
Ban guns. Prayer must not be enough.

Whenever there is a mass shooting, there seems always a push of various narratives and agendas. And while some may be valid, many comments are mere sarcastic, demeaning, misleading, and the like. While families suffer the loss of loveones, the media, society, and politics cast blame, define motive, demand policies, and try to control the narrative — before all of the facts are known.

Initally, it was noted that the majority of mass murders in America happen by white males. (Statista shows between 1982 to 2023, 73 of 141 mass shootings in the United States were “white shooters.”) However, with the Nashville case, this narrative seems to have drifted out of focus, because it was a white “transgender shooter.”

Usually, with a mass shooting, law enforcement looks for some type of manifesto (via social media, notebooks, friends, family, etc.) to try to determine a “Why” did the individual(s) feel led to carry out such murder. In the Nashville case, the crime was committed at a Christian school, so the narrative turns to statements like, “Prayer must not be enough” or it was likely due to “intolerant brainwashing through religious indoctrination.” And much worse idotic comments.

What we know is, an individual plotted and carried out mass murder at a school, which killed three adults and three children. Laws and bans do not stop evildoers, they will find alternative ways. Murdering a child is sadistic, and doubtful they were in any way responsible for the individual(s) aggression. The indivdual(s) are at fault. Trying to shift blame to the means (guns, etc.), victims (faculty, students, etc.), or the establishment (school, etc.) is mere vain jangling. The individual(s) had a choice. They chose murder. We have laws/bans against that. It didn’t stop them.

Vain Jangling
Everyone has the right [to a trial] to prove innocence.

This thought is mere vain jangling.
Here in America, we are presumed “innocent until proven guilty.”
A trial is to prove otherwise.
See Fifth Amendment.

Vain Jangling
That is just [opposing]-wing conspiracy jargon aimed to “delegitimize government institutions or government officials,” etc.

There are those who accept conspiracy theories. Believing “we the people” are being told a lie or that things are being done in secret.

There are those who blame conspiracy theories. Believing they are used to manufacture lies or to create mistrust within “we the people.”

Perhaps there can sometimes be a bit of truth in both, based on the theory and the circumstances as things unfold. Therefore, it is something that one should be cautious, studious, and honest about.

However —whether right-wing or left-wing— it is interesting to note the vain jangling, when it is found out at the end of the day. (Which often happens, even if years or decades later.)

The amount of energy spent on hiding and denying the truth, while working to silence and discredit those in opposition —to the lie, the cover up, the conspiracy— must be exhausting, expensive.

Then when exposed, “we the people” are simply given more vain jangling as if such things can be brushed aside to move on, with no care to the destruction and consequences unjustly forced upon others in the wake of the true originators of mis— and/or dis— information.