It used to be that safe gun use and respect for firearms was a natural part of growing up in a family. Sadly, today guns are introduced in the worse possible way to our unsupervised youth through video games and on the silver screen. In this fictional, make believe world killing is glamorized and completely removed from reality, which later makes it much to easy to move from their make believe world into a real world where actions have grave consequences.
One of the guys I work with is a fellow vet whos about the same age as me, and we were talking about Fridays shooting. He said he doesn’t understand what’s gotten into these kids. Back in the day, if you had a problem with someone you took it out behind the school and settled it with fists. And I mentioned to him that when we were growing up we didn’t have these violent video games. We had Pac Man, Frogger, and Space Invaders. We didn’t have these violent “first person shooter” games like they have now. Nor did we have the level of violence in TV and movies either.