Monday, November 20, 2017

We Shouldn't be Shaking Our Heads, Wondering Why

   I listen to Jamie Mcfarland on KSL, learning that the U.S. is the clear leader in producing mass killers and serial killers.
   Is there something about our culture that leads to this, maybe something in our culture? A gun-culture, maybe? A culture where more people own guns than in any other advanced nation? Or is it because our culture offers so much violence on TV and movie screens? No, maybe we should attribute it to our culture of violent video games.
   No, you say? Then, what? Should we trace it to our own attitudes? We often say if someone wanders through our door in the middle of the night, we will blow him right back out that door with the Magnum handgun waiting on the nightstand.
   What about ultimate fighting? We have as much of that as any nation. And, our love for violence can be traced even into football, where players boast of their hard hits, and suppose the game cannot be played properly without them. We as fans? We find ourselves screaming with joy and applauding those hard hits.
   I do not know how our nation compares to others in all these factors. I only know we are a nation  glorifying violence, and reveling in it. I only know that all our love of guns, and violence, and physically hurting others surely must have some kind of negative impact.
  I only know, if we do end up number 1 in producing mass killers and serial killers, we shouldn't shake our heads and say, Where does that come from? What's up with that?

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