I find most these stories calling for gun bans, and blaming video games, tv, mental illness just sad. Sad for Americans, have we really become that country? The one that blames the first thing we see in an incident? When did we stop looking for the root of the problem and fixing it, was it 5 years, 10 years, 50 years ago?
I suspect everyone knows what the problem is but no one wants to say it, as it is much easier to call for gun bans or blame video games then to own up to the big problem and that is our society as a whole. Yes our society is the problem and each and every one of us is to blame for it in some small way, its a problem we all need to work on and it won't be fixed by laws and regulations but just by the people of this country saying enough is enough and working to fix it.
We have an entire generation of kids who idolize the dumb people on Jersey Shore, little kids want to grow up and be Paris Hilton. Our school systems are full of bullying and segregation and labels. Our children are being victimized and set into selfish, self centered and self destructive mindset's long before they even know what a gun is, or a violent video game.
Don't blame the media for airing these horrible shows and news stories about terrible role models in a good light, don't blame the overly violent and socially destructive rap music, blame the US population for buying it and watching it. If we didn't support these shows and movies by watching them, they would stop making them. This country is more interested in money then the well being of our people and our children.
I can understand why people would want to ignore the real problem, Who can fix it and how? Its such a huge problem it seems beyond any of us, but its not beyond all of us. There is no need to ban guns, or outlaw violent video games, those are just scape goats for a problem so immense people fail to realize it is there at all.
We need to take back our society one step at a time, stop promoting these anti-role models on the media, stop watching these terrible shows that makes it cool to act like an uncivilized whore. This country's moral compass has been slowly turned upside down over the last few decades and it is time we took responsibility for it and started fixing this issue instead of blaming everything else and putting it all on someone else to fix.
This outrage against gun's and the following mindless zombie like flocking to it, is not the actions of a civilized society, it is a mob mentality, are we not better then this? It is no wonder there is so many suicides in this country, mostly from the teen generation who is growing up in this society. Constantly bombarded with the issues in our schools that scar or destroy them for life, to the constant adults blaming everything but themselves for their child's failures, then as soon as they get old enough to start understanding our society it is just too much. Why do we have politicians who make a 100,000 dollars a year plus lobbyist bribes to make laws to tell us what we can and cannot do? With this much money do you think they want to get elected because they care, or do you think they do it because its a really good paying job? We should do massive pay cuts to these people and let people who really want to help get elected in and stop making this about money, power and slandering.
This tragedy is only but one tragedy in our society, I see no public outcry for the children who are shot by gang members on a regular basis just because they happen to be in the way, and I don't see any news reports about the thousands of traumatized kids in our flawed school systems who grow up to be serial killers and home grown terrorist. Why would they care about a society that outcast them and shunned them for just being a little different? With this particular shooting if you bothered to read interviews with the shooters school friends he was an outcast and shunned for being a little different, psychologist have been saying for years this leads to serious issues, self esteem, depression, rage yet we continue to let this problem continue until it grows into something unimaginable and then who do we blame? guns? mental health? No, we should blame ourselves as parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, and citizens. It affects us all and it is us we should blame.
I suspect everyone knows what the problem is but no one wants to say it, as it is much easier to call for gun bans or blame video games then to own up to the big problem and that is our society as a whole. Yes our society is the problem and each and every one of us is to blame for it in some small way, its a problem we all need to work on and it won't be fixed by laws and regulations but just by the people of this country saying enough is enough and working to fix it.
We have an entire generation of kids who idolize the dumb people on Jersey Shore, little kids want to grow up and be Paris Hilton. Our school systems are full of bullying and segregation and labels. Our children are being victimized and set into selfish, self centered and self destructive mindset's long before they even know what a gun is, or a violent video game.
Don't blame the media for airing these horrible shows and news stories about terrible role models in a good light, don't blame the overly violent and socially destructive rap music, blame the US population for buying it and watching it. If we didn't support these shows and movies by watching them, they would stop making them. This country is more interested in money then the well being of our people and our children.
I can understand why people would want to ignore the real problem, Who can fix it and how? Its such a huge problem it seems beyond any of us, but its not beyond all of us. There is no need to ban guns, or outlaw violent video games, those are just scape goats for a problem so immense people fail to realize it is there at all.
We need to take back our society one step at a time, stop promoting these anti-role models on the media, stop watching these terrible shows that makes it cool to act like an uncivilized whore. This country's moral compass has been slowly turned upside down over the last few decades and it is time we took responsibility for it and started fixing this issue instead of blaming everything else and putting it all on someone else to fix.
This outrage against gun's and the following mindless zombie like flocking to it, is not the actions of a civilized society, it is a mob mentality, are we not better then this? It is no wonder there is so many suicides in this country, mostly from the teen generation who is growing up in this society. Constantly bombarded with the issues in our schools that scar or destroy them for life, to the constant adults blaming everything but themselves for their child's failures, then as soon as they get old enough to start understanding our society it is just too much. Why do we have politicians who make a 100,000 dollars a year plus lobbyist bribes to make laws to tell us what we can and cannot do? With this much money do you think they want to get elected because they care, or do you think they do it because its a really good paying job? We should do massive pay cuts to these people and let people who really want to help get elected in and stop making this about money, power and slandering.
This tragedy is only but one tragedy in our society, I see no public outcry for the children who are shot by gang members on a regular basis just because they happen to be in the way, and I don't see any news reports about the thousands of traumatized kids in our flawed school systems who grow up to be serial killers and home grown terrorist. Why would they care about a society that outcast them and shunned them for just being a little different? With this particular shooting if you bothered to read interviews with the shooters school friends he was an outcast and shunned for being a little different, psychologist have been saying for years this leads to serious issues, self esteem, depression, rage yet we continue to let this problem continue until it grows into something unimaginable and then who do we blame? guns? mental health? No, we should blame ourselves as parents, grandparents, brothers, sisters, and citizens. It affects us all and it is us we should blame.