Agreed NavySeal77.
And, while I agree with the other poster who wrote that people murder people everywhere... I'm not sure I agree that school shootings ... children murdering their unarmed classmates is anywhere NEAR normal, nor should be tolerated.
I think what's itching at me is our culture. The way it's changed. The way we've allowed it to change. The way it's changed us.
That part makes it a National problem.
But perhaps so is the meanness that comes out of all that dysfunction and loony jealousy... insecure back-biting that SEEKS to **** others off.
I've been asking younger people ... the age range who most often get shot, and most don't feel there's an extraordinary level of gun violence going on. But, a couple did.. and they connected it to living in the type of small towns where, "there's nothing to do" and people just eat at each other. This, I can understand.
[Even though yesterday a gunman opened fire on two men in front of the courthouse in Nashville, North Carolina wounding two.
Sheriff: 2 Shot at NC Courthouse, Gunman Caught - ABC News ]
Perhaps it's my age. I'm 61 and the world I grew up in was very different than this one.- No one would THINK of carrying a pistol to a party.
- The "Bully" phenomena was not as huge as it is today.
- Regardless of how bad the job was, the vast majority of people who wanted to work could find a job... and you were valued in the community for going to work everyday--not sitting around waiting to steal something out of your neighbor's house. (AND THIS.. "Thug culture thing CAN be linked back to what the 6 .. SIX.. corporations that own and control ALL the media has done to "music" since 1980... and the affects are seen not just in black disaffected youth in the hood, but in board rooms, middle-class white suburbs, barrios, college campuses where date rape has escalated, the military--where active gang members are now in the ranks... and where our noble young women are getting raped at alarming ... UNACCEPTABLE .. rates... )
I think what I'm trying to get at is.. the violence isn't just gun violence.
NavySeal77 hit on it.
Generations of trauma ... and the way that dysfunctional people and families of any socio-economic level can tear others down.
"Hurt people, HURT people."
And it's not just men.- Unhappy women can be vicious with their lying gossip.
- That negativity turns into something.
- The violence is also felt in the harsh and almost mentally ill attitudes Hate Radio creates in people.
- I see ADULTS encouraging their children to disrespect other adults.. a truly cowardly act that does great damage to children in ways we see later in their lives when they can't get off drugs, maintain jobs, or maintain healthy relationships.
- People personalizing things that aren't even their business!
Not only do I think we can do better.. it's pretty darn clear we HAVE to start doing better.
Using politics as a "sport" were we think "our side has to beat there's" is a big part of the problem.
The super rich play with people's emotions and the decline in quality of life can be seen throughout the nation. It just isn't working. 30 years of this has cost us dearly.
Regardless if you're Democrat or Republican or whatever.. Green Party. We as the American public have to grow up past our dysfunctions and traumas, and mean-spirited isolations and vote not with bigotry, greed, or selfishness... because it AIN'T WORKING.. and begin putting in the type of people our parents and grandparents put in office. (Um... ah .. the good ones that is...
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We need to begin getting back to some integrity for all.
Maybe that's being old... but how much more of our current path can we take? It's only going to get worse unless we the people begin demanding that all this ... what... corruption and manipulation the ultra rich are doing abates. It will never stop... but throughout history, whenever large groups of people demand the money brokers cease, they always back off. They give a dollar to take three... but at least for a time, they stop taking everything they can. Quality of life... not politics ... quality of life.
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