"When a six-year-old boy shoots his first-grade teacher with a gun, that should be a sign to all of us that our culture has gotten completely out of control. Sadly, most of us will soon forget about that story because so many other examples of extreme violence will be making headlines. Our blood-soaked culture has produced an entire generation of young people that has become desensitized to violent acts, and that should deeply alarm all of us. A lot of Americans tend to focus on the rise in violent crime rates in our major cities, but the truth is that violence can suddenly erupt literally anywhere in this current environment.
Once upon a time, mass shootings were quite rare in the United States.
Sadly, that is no longer true. According to the New York Times, there were 648 documented mass shootings last year…
The Gun Violence Archive counted 648 mass shootings in 2022. Of those shootings, 21 involved five or more fatalities, including the attack at a Walmart in Chesapeake, Va., on Nov. 22 and the shooting at an L.G.B.T.Q. nightclub in Colorado Springs on Nov. 19 that left five people dead.
Just think about those numbers for a moment.
We had almost two mass shootings per day in 2023.
They have become so common that most of them barely make a blip in the news.
Could it be possible that one of the reasons why this is happening is because our entertainment has become so saturated with acts of extreme violence?
By the time the average child finishes elementary school, that child has seen approximately 8,000 murders on television.
And by the time the average child reaches the age of 18, that child has seen approximately 200,000 violent acts on television.
When will we finally admit that we have a major problem on our hands?
When I was growing up, I never worried for a single moment that someone might bring a gun to my school and start shooting.
Now such a thing happens all the time.
But I didn’t expect to be reading about a six-year-old boy shooting his teacher.
Somehow, a six-year-old boy was able to take a loaded gun with him to his elementary school, and the result was a great tragedy…"
Has American Culture Ever Been More Violent Than It Is Right Now? (themostimportantnews.com)
