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Rampage Shootings: It's the Moral Decay of Society, not Guns

Wendy in AR Wrote: Dec 15, 2012 9:46 AM
You miss the point... it is not the balanced person who will murder 20 kindergartners in their classroom. It is the UNBALANCED person who does so, often under the delusion spoken of here as manifested by the first-person shooter games, ultra-violent movies, etc. And many of those children are unbalanced at least in part due to the horrible family situations. Cause and effect are intertwined.

It should come as no surprise that the rate of mass shootings at schools and in other public places is increasing. The surge has nothing to do with guns, which have been widely available in the U.S. for years. Gun control laws have been increasing. Instead, there is a direct correlation between the increase in violence and the gradual degradation of morals, ethics and parenting. We are cultivating mental illness in our society.

Parents are allowing television and video games to increasingly babysit their children, even though both have become full of gratuitous violence. A New...

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