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Originally Posted by Jondalar
Bad Parenting, or half-ass parents. The country is full of them now because people have to work.
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But haven't most families had 2 working parents since the 1970s? This whole rampant mass-shooting/children killers thing seems much more recent of a phenomena.
Personally, I put more blame on the media than parents. They just seem to glorify these never-ending mass shootings/child murderers with obscene amounts of coverage; nearly all of it dedicated to the shooters & not the victims.
It almost makes sense when you realize how many kids have full time working parents who probably can't dedicate the amount of parenting time needed; the kids get bullied at school, home, and online; and are fed a constant diet of violence thanks to the media/tv/movies/video games. Combine this with the fact our society still has a very real stigma in regards to addressing mental issues, and this cycle is doomed to repeat itself & get worse.
I'm not even going to delve into America's obsessive gun culture, because that culture has always been there. The type of killings are much newer, though.