Subject: Re: You are your own first responder

My question is, why does it happen so frequently in the USA? Do you think you have more mental illness than other countries? Or are citizens of the USA less rational than the rest of the world?
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Culture Decay

Traditional Family units decaying.

Old anchors of work, family, traditions, respect, worship - - is waning. The Right to guns was always there....but one wonders, a house with gainful employment, a Mom and Dad, discipline, spirituality and standards....where they could afford to send the kid to state college and the yearly trip to lake-whatever......are THEY hating life? Or is the fella making $15 an hour with his tattoo, his baby mommy, his government check who is a $50 co-pay away from making it more prone to problems?

This - along with great socioeconomic policies create economic strife.

So now they are desperate - stressed - look at them as they drive or walk on by. Not at the Whole Foods- but in the 75% of America.'

Toss in a new sort of pop culture. A certain genre. Certain dress. Mode of walking. Talking and looking aggressively. Wagging fingers, bobbing heads over simple conflicts. Look all over and you can see it -- in Americans of all stripes now.

Then they got social media, texting, phones. Their already limited powers of reasoning were shot - they are impatient, and they don't see humanity in each other.

Their new American dream is "I paid my bills this week". No, you don't meet them at the H.R office or the 401K meeting or the Yoga Class. One has to venture out, look and listen, heck - surf YouTube for these examples.

The old anchors - are gone.

Replaced, with "run run run !!! He's got a gun!"

And then, yes, these socially inferior people - with their even more inferior culture - have guns....difference is that now, they want to USE them. And post it on their social media of course.

Hence their freedoms -will eventually be taken.

The Trailer Park and Ghetto took over people's mentalities and lifestyles.

Some like to blame our 'gun culture' and there's some validity to that. However - the days of John Wayne -- - are long over. The days of certain music saying the b-word, the f word, and all sorts of violent attitudes and themes are hot and live now. Decide which causes more mayhem.

Background checks - I support.

Assault weapons ban - I support.

But all the laws. All the "programs" - - will not solve the social cultural ills.

The train has left the station, and only decline awaits for 75% of Americans.

And many of them know it.

Hence they cling to demagogues - be it black ones or orange ones.