Something is wrong with our society. The Newtown shooting, the Colorado Theatre shooting and now the Naval Yard shooting are not random acts of violence, they are the acting out by some disturbed young men who were raised in a society that preaches moral relativism and where few young people were schooled in any kind of religious beliefs or practices. They were raised in a society where a nuclear intact family is rare and even discouraged. They were raised on a media diet of violence and in a society that believes the value of human life is relative.
Since the 1960's our society has been falling apart at a steady rate and after a couple of generations raised under these circumstances, we are now reaping the consequences.
I realize that most people who carry out these kinds of massacres are mentally ill, but mental illness alone does not create mass murderers--more ingredients need to be added to the pot for a mass murderer to develop and be able to act. I think society has been experimenting with some very damaging things and we are now seeing the result.
There IS something wrong with our society, but it can be fixed, if we want to. Start by loving our family members, serving others, hard, honest work and returning to a belief in moral absolutes. Putting the needs of others first would go a long way to turning this sinking ship around. The Savior, Jesus Christ, was our God at one time--as a nation, whether they admitted it or not, people in general lived by his code--'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you' and love God as well as your fellowmen. Over the years, we've left the churches that taught us how to be good people, we no longer read his word, and we have elevated the pursuit of pleasure, wealth and fame as our top priority. Our heroes are degenerate narcissists. We drug ourselves with legal and illegal substances and distract from our day to day concernes with various forms of entertainment. We put our own selfish desires above even our own children's needs. And then, as a society, we are shocked and appalled to find that each successive generation raised under these circumstances is more screwed up than the last.
We're better than this. We're Americans; that used to mean something--if you want to know what it meant, study our Nation's history; we were indeed, 'exceptional'. It is time for us as a nation to wake up and fix this mess....the first place to start is in our own lives and with our own families.
