FEMINISM drove mom’s OUT of the house, but worse, it also DROVE THE FATHER’S OUT OF THE HOUSE PERMANENTLY.
Indeed seeds were planted when God was taken out of our schools...Before my time.
I went to Catholic schools and grateful for the experience. (I know not everyone has positive, but I did.)
The difference is now we have global warming melding into climate change.
They took prayer out of the schools, and turned away from God.
2. An increasingly complicated world where fewer and fewer people are able to cope.
3. Incessant media coverage of bullsh!t that drives up anxiety in the general public.
A lot of things but I suspect 1st person shooter games are probably the biggest contributor... Imagine millions of adolescent boys spending hours living this fantasy... It’s no surprise one in a million actually do it...
One of my theories is that many boys feel alienated by today’s society-———they don’t think that they fit in.
Years ago they would get out of high school and get a “real guy only” job,like police,fire,lineman,or military-——and they would work things out.
Are there any real guy jobs left?
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God was banned from school.
God has given us up.
As other posters have said, taking God out of school, and feminism are certainly strong contributors to the problem.
I’ll take a stab at this.
The planned (and partly successful) attack on the two-parent nuclear family unit.
Perhaps the Charles Whitman “Texas Tower” shooting opened the floodgates. That was August 1, 1966.
1973
The 24 hour news cycle, social media, and everyone being connected to each other with phones hasn’t done the culture any favors.
Maybe the real reason is that there is simply a decrease in the % of good people.
Freegards
The internet allows for the lunatics to have access to a massive asylum where they feed their mental illness and prepare themselves for international “glory”.
Well, we had a series of “education reforms” that changed what was taught in schools and “revamped” teaching methods. Teachers have little interest in special needs kids, and the school systems are not suited for mainstreaming them.
Also, around 1970, a series of court actions forced mental institutions to release anyone not “committed” based on their rights. It became very hard to get custodial care (or whatever the term is), leaving it up to the family but ultimately the police to deal with seriously mentally compromised people. These folks that used to be in State Hospitals are now on the street and in our schools, and we can’t lock them up until after they kill a dozen or so people. The incipient killers are “mainstreamed” in with the rest of us.
Another factor may be that the media working with the antis continually advise unstable people that their story will be told, a huge effort will be spent on their manifestos (what could the motive have been?), the evildoers name will be repeated a thousand times per day, possibly even by the President, if they follow certain rules as to weapon type and location (we didn’t hear much about the Navy Yard shooter, he used a three-shot pump shotgun I believe- not much media amplification).
It’s not simple but I think I hit three reasons.
In 1967 I remember riding the school bus with kids bringing their shotguns and rifles on the bus for the school gun club, and this was junior high.
And at the start of deer season there were several high powered rifles on board.