re: In your opinion, why are we having so many mass shootings?

Life is too easy, combined with the “in your face at all times” aspect of social media/general media.

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that includes the urban violence that the left loves to ignore due to their racist roots

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this is very much true.

There will be twice as many black on black handgun homicides in the next week in Nola/Chicago/Detroit/Baltimore than those who died in these 2 mass shootings. But you can’t bring up that topic without being called a racist.


downvote away; it’s the truth

This will get downvoted to hell and back, but I think a lot of it is also related to the capitalistic mantra of "time is money" and the extremes that people have to resort to to make it these days. Money is less valuable than ever. Used to be, there was plenty of time to spend with your children. That's not the case in an awful lot of situations these days. Both parents are working full-time and flat-out exhausted from just being able to make ends meet. And work is also a 7 days a week, 365 days a year deal now as well. I think all of that has a role as well. People are just fricking tired.

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There will be twice as many black on black handgun homicides in the next week in Nola/Chicago/Detroit/Baltimore than those who died in these 2 mass shootings. But you can’t bring up that topic without being called a racist.

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No, it's because they're entirely unrelated and making comparisons is pointless.

Your scenario is clearly a result of the war on drugs. I think most people accept that these days.

This scenario has no clear, simple answers.

You stop making drugs illegal and remove the black market and gang violence will cease because there's nothing to fight over.

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it's not that simple either.

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That's my point. They know God doesn't work for everyone but frick it, let's force it on them anyway in schools.

Every generation wants their kids to have more than they had and struggle less for it, but we have forgotten that your struggles are the places that develop your character, and teach you to be a strong, capable person who knows how to handle their own emotions. Young adults these days have come from an era where as children they were extremely desensitized to violent interaction and given a serious disregard for the value of life, without enough troubled experience to know how to handle their own emotions, and when things get out of hand they’re essentially just throwing a temper tantrum of the most violent proportions.

In the 70's and early 80's bomb threats were literally a bimonthly thing. I can't recall any shooting threats, but saw this.

We're just dealing with copycats looking for notoriety today.

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Destruction of the family and morals, the devaluing of human life, a sense of worthlessness in life, social media, the actual media. A whole lot of different issues.

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All of this

Well except we, as in humanity, value life now more than any other time in history

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Well except we, as in humanity, value life now more than any other time in history

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Doesn’t seem like it