One more time, whose fault is it?

"Bottom line - whose fault is it? Nobody and everybody. We do all of us, have skin in this game. But the biggest culprits? Our society and what it has become. Stay tuned." 

I was not going to address this today. With the session coming to a close, there is plenty of grist for the mill. But I had to. Some of it is the subject of chats I have recently had with family and fiends. Some by deep introspection. What is it? School shootings. The new cancer on our landscape. Not only how to stop it, but how to cure it. And to cure it, we need to dive deep in discovery, to learn how it all started.

First off, we have enough laws. Way more than enough. In every school shooting many existing laws were broken. So rather than just scratch the surface, lets try and dive a bit deeper this time around:

• Schools - Laugh if you want, but we have secularized our schools to such a degree,  God is not only unwelcome, His Holy name is all but unmentioned. 
• Students - Many of these school shooters were bullied. Everyone has a breaking point. I was bullied when I was in grade school. My breaking point came, and then I beat up the bully. That stopped it. Today, the breaking point might end up doing something far more lethal.
• Music - Ever listen to some of the lyrics in the music lately? Especially some of the hip hop, rap, or dark metal? Young brains are soaking all this trash in, and that is not healthy. 
• Hollywood - The Harvey Weinstein's of tinsel town have flooded the market with crap - and I mean crap. Senseless violence, unloving sex, and crude language. Again - young brains soak this up.
• Video Games -  We have come a long way baby since Pong, Pac-Man, and Asteroids. Now we are into massacres and mayhem, all live and in color. Is it glorified? "Oh, hell ya!", and that is a huge problem.
• Mental Health - For reasons we do not yet understand, un-diagnosed mental health issues in our youth is running rampant. These kids are nothing more than ticking time bombs.
• Parents - They are complacent in all listed above including those who own fire arms who do not keep them fully secured. 

Bottom line - whose fault is it? Nobody and everybody. We do all of us have skin in this game. But the biggest culprits? Our society and what it has become. Stay tuned. More of this to come in the upcoming weeks. Since the local newspaper once again cried out we have to "do something", let's go do something. Only this time, let's focus on the right causes.