It should come as no surprise that the rate of mass shootings at schools and in other public places is increasing
not only in the US but other parts of the world.. The surge has nothing
to do with guns, which have been widely available in the U.S. for
years. Gun control laws have been increasing. Instead, there is a direct
correlation between the increase in violence and the gradual
degradation of morals, ethics and parenting. We are cultivating mental
illness in our society.
Parents are allowing television and video games to increasingly babysit their children, even though both have become full of gratuitous violence. A New York Times study of rampage killers found that six of them were into violent video games. Research shows that violent video games and television desensitize people and promote aggressive behavior, despite claims to the contrary. A research scientist at the University of Michigan found that
television was responsible for 10% of youth violence. Parents today are
neglecting their children, and when things don’t go well, rushing to
get divorced instead of trying to work things out first. Children suffer
emotionally when their parents fight or split up. Parents are ignoring
their children so much they don’t even see the warning signs that
something might be wrong. The New York Times study found that 63 of 100 rampage killers had made threats of violence before the event.
Parents are no longer taking their children to church, where they would learn stability and morals. Fewer than 20% of Americans now regularly attend church. Every year there are 3000 fewer churches
across the U.S, even though the population is growing. God and morality
have been taken out of the public schools and replaced with political
correctness and non-judgmentalism. “Public virtues” are no longer taught
in today’s schools. People who do not attend church are more likely than
churchgoers to have stress and to be less optimistic about the future.
When parents split up and there is no father to take the children
regularly to church, the children are much less likely to become regular churchgoers than if their mother regularly takes them.
The New York Times study
found that at least half the killers in 100 rampage attacks showed
signs of serious mental health problems. 48 killers were formally
diagnosed with mental illness, often schizophrenia. The mentally ill
used to be kept in hospitals, where they were not a danger to others.
Beginning in the 1950s in California, the ACLU successfully filed
lawsuits to take the mentally ill out of hospitals, known as
“deinstitutionalization.” By the 1980s, most state-run mental health
hospitals had closed.
Now, most of the mentally ill are out on the streets or in prison. The laws have been changed to state that
the mentally ill cannot be hospitalized until they’ve already attacked
someone. As a result, more mentally ill people are incarcerated than in
hospitals, with the seriously mentally ill three times more likely to
end up behind bars than hospitalized. More than half of all people in
prison report that they have mental health problems, and more than 40
percent of the seriously mentally ill have been in jail or prison. A
study at the University of South Florida found that the highest users of
criminal justice and mental health services were 97 people who had been
arrested 2,200 times. It is ludicrous that those 97 people are not
contained for their safety and others in mental health hospitals.
The
22-year old Oregon shopping mall gunman who killed two people earlier
this week is sadly typical of the rampage murderers the decay of society
has spawned. He had this written
on his Facebook page, “I’m the conductor of my choo choo train. I may
be young but I have lived one crazy life so far.” One of his friends
said he raised himself; his mother died at childbirth, he never met his
father, and he left his aunt’s home at age 14.
The
left will use the high level of emotion stirred up by this past week’s
two rampage killings to push through new gun control laws. Liberal New
York Mayor Michael Bloomberg called upon
President Obama to enact tougher gun control laws immediately after
Friday’s mass shooting at an elementary school in Connecticut. Yet
demanding more gun control laws will not solve anything. Gun control
advocates have already increased the number of laws around the country
requiring background checks, waiting periods for purchases, and tracking
of firearms. Many of the rampage killers obtained guns illegally. If
they can’t obtain guns, deranged individuals will find other ways to
commit mass murders – by setting fires, making bombs or running people
over with vehicles. One day after the shootings in Connecticut, a man in
Beijing stabbed 22 primary school students with a knife.
Paul E. Vallely MG, US Army (ret)
Chairman – Stand Up America
Standupamericausa1@gmail.com
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