Why do you think there are so many school shootings now?

What has changed?
1.) The availability of guns? NOPE...I went hunting before school and my rifle was in my gun rack along with 75% of the students. No one ever thought about taking it out and wiping out the school.
2.) Availability of resources? Nope...there are more resources these days for people to be part of for coping.
3.) Communication? Absolutley. No one knows how to communicate these days unless it is over a cell phone, text, instagram, twitter etc. I ask my daughter all the time if she spoke to so and so. She says yes and then I follow up with did yo talk or did you text? The answer is text. I say that to say this...communicating electronically is easy to get people spun up. Use all caps you are screaming, use the wrong emoji and you are bullying, talk about one friend and not necessarily in a bad way and then it gets back to the other one and then hate fills the tron world. It is easy to get spun up when you aren't face to face and talk. Kids these days and most adults have lost that art.
4.) Fights? Absolutely...kids these days don't fight...they pull out a gun or knife because they were disrespected. They saw it on a video game and it worked. Reboot and came back at it the next day. We used to take out back at school. When we were done either you got your ass whooped or you did the whooping. When it was over you dusted off, got a pinch of skoal, cleaned up your wounds and went back to class or football practice and it was over.
5.) Everybody gets a trophy? Absoutely...Kids these days get whatever they want. I didn't make the baseball team one year...guess what it stung hard...I practiced all year and played summer ball to get ready for the next year and guess what, I made the team through hard work and perseverance. Kids these days make the team, get a trophy and there are no winners or losers. So when they are older and get told no it is a foreign concept to them. How dare someone tell me no...they must be destroyed.
6.) Discipline? Hell yeah...If I messed up, I got jacked up...Guess what...I didn't do it again. If my mom/dad didn't get me, my friends mom did or my grandparents did (switch or Bip Bop paddle)...we knew what was right and wrong and didn't cross that line and we had respect for our elders. Majority of Kids these days aren't disciplined. This time out crap doesn't work...My dad took time out of his schedule to whoop me...As Hattie said in Madeas Boo movie, "Whip dat ass one good time." Parents seem to be afraid of their kids...that I don't understand.
7.) Parental guidance - YUP...It goes along with what I have put above but parents these days want to negotiate with their children so they aren't the bad guy and they want to be their friends...BUMP DAT...I am not your friend...God put me in in this world to be your parent and to teach you right from wrong and to hold you accountable...not to let you get away with everything so you don't know what no means.
8.) Finally GOD--God has not changed, we have. We have taken Him out of everything so we don't offend anyone. Well I am offended by not having my right to speak of Him in public with my child.

Because parents lead their children to believe that they can have whatever they want and don't teach them how to handle rejection. Society is all wrapped up in telling everybody how special they are...I'm with you on the parenting thing. The God in school part may or may not correlate. If it does I believe it is because, when we did allow religion/prayer in schools, that was a point in time when we also taught kids discipline and respect which is terribly lacking today.

I think there are a number of reasons. First is that there is a breakdown of the family. Fewer fathers involved with their chilldren means less leadership in the home. When you have a single parent house, there simply isn't enough time/energy to give to your children. Second, as demonstrated in Florida, ignoring minor lawbreaking only leads to greater problems. People push the envelope until someone pushes back with punishment or a way to stop them. Ignoring behavior does not lead to cessation, especially if there is a reward for the illegal behavior (like robbery, theft, etc- the reward is the item(s) or for some, the thrill of getting away with something)
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1. 25-30 years ago is when the liberals started telling us we couldn't spank our kids, we have to give everyone a trophy, and "equality" started being legislated.

2. I'm not a religious person, but I'm smart enough to see that as God and Patriotism have started being viewed as bad things and people have started speaking and acting out against it, the moral fabric of society has decayed to a point that is close to beyond repair.

3. As there has been a steady increase in non-traditional families, there has been an increase in bad people.

4. As the frequency of divorce and multiple marriages has increased, the number of bad people has also increased.

5. Violence has been normalized due to the increasingly lax censorship rules. We can turn on the TV and have a front row seat to a warzone. We can flip to HBO or turn on the radio and see and hear violent crime being glamorized. This has led to us as a society being desensitized to these things.

Something has changed, hasn't it? The problem is determining what has changed that is significant. Is it the availability of guns? The difference in the pop culture? The change in social norms and the emphasis or lack thereof on religion? At home? In the classroom? In public places? How about the fascination with violence in popular media? In games? In the news? So many hypotheses, so many experts. Why can't we find the answer? Sadly, I fear that politics that gets in the way. Who can we trust to approach the question scientifically? Whose opinion is untainted by ideology?

I agree with you. Lack of God and lack of discipline; both at home and in (from society). We need to learn how to get along with one another instead of our first reaction (or action) being shot to kill because we "think" we don't like the other person or what they might say or do to us. We need to learn how to LOVE again.

I expect that the majority of school shooting incidents take place in area where gun-free zones predominate so that the murderous thugs would not be confronted by armed school security or adults with concealer carry permits in the schools SSG(P) (Join to see)
Many areas have tried to keep God out of the schools - that is foolish IMHO since God has access to everywhere and everyone at all times :-)
For whatever reason God has allowed these school shootings to take place and some house of worship shooting as well.
In tragedy, we each have opportunities to help others deal with the horrible events and their personal losses. God may well have called many of us for just such as a time as this.
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25-30 Years ago, kids were still taught that with "rights" came responsibilities- that all actions had equal reactions. That just because you didn't agree with someone did not give you the right to stifle them. We took faith, kindness, responsibility, owning you to your mistakes & actions, politeness and respect out of the hands of parents and muzzled the teachers. For 30 + plus years, gangsta's, rappers, and hoodlum's have been praised, called heroic, and idolized- instead of someone good or decent. We have raised 2-3 generations of folks that can only live off of others, and no make them own way in life.

There are too many factors involved to point at any one thing and say, "this is why". When television became common in society there was a 15 percent spike in violent crime, happened in the United States and Great Briton in the 50s, happened in South Africa in the 1970s. However, school shootings did not become common until much later, so that can't be all of the answer. Programming on TV has become much more violent over time, desensitizing people to violence and human empathy, but this was going on in the 70s and 80s so that can't be all of the answer. Violent video games allow people to train to kill and many of these killers do train with those, and their progression has seemed to mirror the progression in these killings, so there is a correlation there, but not every player of violent video games goes on rampages, so that can't be all of the answer. Gun bans quickly followed these shootings, turning them into soft targets, and we have seen the casualties increase, but that is a deterrent or lack there of, so that can't be all of the answer. God was taken out of schools in the 60s and 70s, but the shootings didn't really ramp up until recently, so that can't be all of the answer.

Far more likely, it is a combination of all of the above. The shooters become household names. They are known, talked about, etc. for days or weeks after, so it's a way to make oneself know. They are taught in school that life came from an ancient soup, and that only the strongest survive, and that it's okay to kill someone that is inconvenient to you as long as he or she hasn't been born yet, so life loses its value. They have no moral compass, no respect for others, and they have access to training that desensitizes them to humanity until they become stone cold killers. Unlike military soldiers that are trained to kill, but have discipline instilled in them so that they only do so when commanded, these killers are trained to do so without that discipline. All of this combines to demonstrate the uncertainty of life when sin rules.

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I feel my generation has failed to pass on Discipline and accountability. As a society we have come to this point where we dont want anyone to fail, dont want anyone to feel bad, dont want anyone to lose. But the harsh reality of life is: People fail, it makes success so much more meaningful; People feel bad, it makes Happy Times so much more uplifting; People lose, again this makes winning so so much more of a reward. Take this and add a moraless movie, televison, sports and music industry and we NOW HAVE IDOLS & HEROS that have little if any accountability for their actions!

So a child becomes unruly or bullies, the teacher cant do much, the parents cant seem to either. The "role Models" are using vulgarity, obsene wardrobes and criminal activiy routinely. The young see this and.. want to be like their HEROS!

So by not teaching / rearing our children with the realities of life, we have given the sense that "Wrong" is ok, "Everyone Breaks the Rules", "You just say that because you are Old and cant do this", etc etc, are ALL Acceptable! Reality is they are NOT! But the Loudest Demanding that Change take Place ae Among those setting the Bad Example.

Because of these actions and Us as a Society, I feed we have Failed.