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.)
I did too. I miss the traditional nuns.
It can’t be lack of prayer in the schools. There was absolutely zero prayer in public schools when I was young and there were no school shooters.
By the way, the first school shooter I ever heard of (because I hadn’t heard of that guy shooting from the bell tower) was in the 1980s in a small town in Switzerland when I lived there. An older kid, high school age, went back to his elementary school and shot himself in the head in the night on the playground there in a dramatic suicide attempt, lived through it and shot himself again after, leaving his body to be found by people coming to school the next day. It just seemed like the most ghastly thing in the world at the time.