It was a broad brushstroke about society in general, not just this particular instance. There is no denying that things that were once socially unacceptable are now quite acceptable and sometimes even praised. (I'm talking about the US BTW) The only thing it takes for evil to prevail is for good to do nothing. I am aware that Evil will ALWAYS exist and that bad people do bad things, but it is only getting worse by (either) the good being silent, or the good being silenced.
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Originally Posted by realcoray
This is so wrong that I don't even know where to begin.
What video game did Charles Whitman play in the 1960s before killing 16 people?
Google for a list of school shootings (or massacres, they are nearly one and the same). You'll find a list that extends hundreds of years, where people including kids killed someone at their school.
Have we been on a decline that long, since basically the country was created?
Or has it been the case that damaged people have existed and will continue to exist, and that their access to high powered guns has simply increased, meaning as a group it's a lot easier to kill whole groups of people very quickly?
I'm not saying that's the only issue in play here but it's certainly one of them.
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