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Originally Posted by Shmoov69
AMEN!! And to elaborate even more, I'd say that even "if" these ladies were hiding in a corner, they are STILL heroes to me...they took the bullets from the nutjob.
Typing this as I watch the game tonight and a commercial for the game "Hitman-Absolution" comes on...... A HUGE problem with the younger generation IMO. Total and complete "numbness" for life and even reality for that matter. Is it "the" problem, no but it is a big part of the pie I think. "THE" problem is that the moral compass of society has lost it's magnetism..... We are a "feel good" society and there isn't much of an absolute right and wrong on a lot of things, which just adds to the problem.
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I've been thinking similar thoughts with regards to these shootings. Looking back at this horrific incident, the movie theater shooting earlier this year, and then all of the strange college campus killings we've had over the last 5 years and the common demoniator is age. You don't find any 65 year old people commiting these murders, but rather young men, sub 30, typically acting alone. The Columbine shootings were ony different in that there were two young men acting out what they may have seen thousands of times on screen. Americans are becoming numb to these types of concepts at an accelerating rate. Our society injects it forcefully into our youth without much restraint. In the 50s it may have been a cap gun for a 7 year old's birthday, but today it's Black Ops on Xbox which leaves little to the imagination with regards to death. Militaries of the 21st century thrive on these types of electronic scenarios to remove the emotion from war. Drone pilots can reduce a village to dust, then step outside to take a smoke break. I live next to one and it's a weird conversation around the BBQ.
For 99.999% of us these themes are a controlable, non-issue. For folks who can't process life within it's normal boundaries, this becomes a lit fuse. It's a tragic reality we all live with and there's no going back on it now. I don't know what the answer may be but I'm sure it's gotta strat with education and parenting.