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4. Add to that an increasingly nihilistic younger generation
Fri Dec 21, 2012, 11:42 PM
Dec 2012

and a society that values possessions over people and you have a recipe for disaster. Few parents have the time or inclination to explain simple morality to their children, preferring to leave that responsibility to television, movies and the schools. Of course some take their children to church, but unless the morality they hear about in church is reinforced at home, it doesn't make much of an impression. The example of the subway rider pushed onto the tracks with not a single person willing to rescue him is a prime example of the moral decline and selfishness of people today. Add to that sixty or so years of entertainment that glorifies guns and violence and it's not surprising that spree killing is increasingly occurring, particularly when the tools to undertake such an enterprise are just so available. Do the math. Nihilistic, unstable kid with a grudge + guns= death. It's as simple as that.

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