re: Why all of the mass shootings now, and not back when?

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Well, while I was born in the mid 60’s, I grew up in America, not Mogadishu, and I don’t know anyone who fretted over school shootings prior to my birth. I think they referred to it as Happy Days for just such a reason.

I’m pretty sure you’re making this up in your head.

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You just moved the goal posts on me.

We were talking about mass shootings, and you changed it to school shootings.

There’s no question school violence has radically increased, as kids today are far more disturbed than 50 years ago. But back to the subject. There was way more crazy stuff going on in the 60’s and 70’s. Assassinations right and left, bank robberies, plane hijackings, the statistics are hard to believe when you look back on it.

Moral decline, casual sex, little meaningful chirch attendance, broken homes, fatherless boys, low self image, mental health.

Video games and mental illness

In my personal observation, we allowed kids to be kids

If you were lucky you got your porn from National Geograbpic

Showing dead and bloody bodies at dinnertime stared with the Vietnam War

You settled differences face to face on the playground with your fists

Nuns taught you the fear of God with liberal use of a hickory stick

You played with kids in your neighborhood and not in your moms basement on the internet

Wrasslin was local and it was clear who the good guys were

You ate what grandma cooked, not fast food

Whitman had a huge brain tumor.

Whatever a society tolerates, it gets more of. Societal norms now include all manner of was formerly considered mental illness, and given social media power, it’s hard for families to hold the sanity line against what is essentially a Pagan cultural onslaught. Back when I was an early teen, nobody would have even thought such as those thoughts did not even exist in our world. Pandora’s Box is open and will run its bloody course. With the help of the DEI delusion.

Starts with parents who aren’t doing their job with their kids.

"Why now, and not back then if nothing has changed with people or culture?"

I'm old enough to remember seeing guns in the trucks of classmates on rear window racks at school with no thoughts of anything bad. Believe it or not there was a time when these things were not even in our imaginations! My generation was never exposed to drugs for children to take just for having a lack of attention in class. I have a great dread that many of these people have been on some kind of mind altering drugs that didn't exist when I was younger. Notice how there's never any investigation about that concerning these shootings. Think about it, how can anyone decide to take a high powered weapon and randomly murder completely innocent people (mostly children)who they don't even know. I believe this is more than mere evil. These people are out of their minds! The question is what has caused this?
We must demand more accountability concerning the real root causes of these events and there will be the answer to the evil that is behind it!

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Well, they took GOD out of schools so there's that. A lot of kids have no morals and no hope.

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Bingo

"Let's not act like one single measure somehow means the gold ol days were actually good ol. People have always been shitbags."

Big Scrub TX,
Couldn't disagree more! I was here during that time and the ones radically fighting integration were ALL Democrat politicians and DEMOCRAT KKK members! Thats right, the KKK was an exclusive democrat organization! The overwhelming majority of people just wanted a good education for their children.