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Originally Posted by Thor
Its not one thing, its a symptom of a lot of things wrong in that society.
Schools are a mess, parents work more and have less time for their kids... A failure of a health care system for many, a social safety net which fails for so many, and a host of other reasons all contribute to killings like this. Theres the drug war....
I hate when people try to simplify this into one or two reasons why, its way more complex than that, I think yes the desire to be famous at all costs is a real point, just look at the very depressing questionares done on middle schoolers in America last year, where the answers to what do you want to be when you grow up were #1 rich and #2 famous...
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You cannot look at the actions of a handful of people in a country of 300 000 000 and say it is the result of any kind of societal problem. The problems you mention are likely part of the more preventable problems of the overall high murder rate in this country. When the states were listed above with the highest murder rates, you'll probably find that the thing they most have in common is large percentages of black people living in very poor and violent black communities, and that is an issue that can and should be addressed. As should domestic violence. Neither of those have anything to do with these types of spree killings though.