Hairy has some very valid points..but the antis are very good at..IGNORING THE MANY ELEPHANTS STANDING IN THE ROOM.
Hairy has posted some of the obvious elephants...and I posted more on another thread ..as follows:
In America, guns have always been available, still a few decades ago..murder was very rare. School massacres are only a couple decades old at best.. Something else is going on!
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So, if guns were always available... what is different ? Here's a list of what is different over the last 4 decades..take your choice:
1) As Magooch pointed out,
life itself was greatly cheapened in 1973, by Roe vs Wade.
2) Divorce always hurts the children..it seems as though nobody ever asks the children if it is OK for Dad and Mom to divorce. The incidence of divorce has risen exponentially since the 1960s. Most of these shooters experienced a painful pareental divorce.
3) TM had a very valid point..drugs..ridlin etc are murderous..the has been a huge rise in the use of drugs in the last 4 decades..both legal and illegal drugs.
4) In very recent years even entertainment has taken upon itself a murderous cast..vampires, werewolves and zombies are very popular fare. Likely, a kid on mind bending drugs could convince himself he was shooting "zombies".
5) popular songs celebrate murder, mistreating women and highlights other vices.
6) Some video games seem to promote the thirst for mayhem..some seem to portray exactly this kind of activity, to the point where a confused young mind may consider such an act as "normal" or "cool"..
7) The last 40 years has seen a great movement away from Godly values, towartd a selfish, self-centered "me-ism". Many have forgotten what common morals and values are. For some, respect for God and for others is a non-starter.
The age-old controlling factor of "shame" seems to be of little effect anymore. Young people often
boast about sleazy activities which would have left young people of 4 decades ago..mortified in shame. .
Many of our young are awash in a degraded lifestyle, not corrected by, in fact often influenced by... their parents