The Real Reason We Have School Shootings

Since the time of FDR and the 'Great Society', the welfare state has been instrumental in the destruction of the American family.  Financial incentives to have children out of wedlock and to divorce have contributed significantly to this breakdown.  The liberal statists moving out of 'compassion', have foisted this malarky on the American people.  Now we are seeing the results of this ill-conceived policy.

The breakdown of the family have led to children doing worse in school and quite often being unsupervised at home.  Is there any doubt that the average teenage boy is more of a delinquent today?  The deviancy has been defined down to such a point where it can't go much lower, fortunately the pendulum has hit its apex.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan defined it in his paper 'Defining Deviancy Down' in which he explained how as baser activity becomes more common, it becomes the norm, leading to even worse activity, which then becomes the new norm, and so forth, in a downward spiral.  Forty years ago, boys did not slash tires, nor would girls even think of sexting, yet this is the culture we have today.

Is it any wonder that people who have completely lost any sense of self in our celebrity culture, want to claim their 15 minutes of fame using whatever means they need to accomplish it.  Hollywood has for years told us that we should do what is best for us without regard to the greater good of others or the society.  An unattended consequence of this is female teachers having affairs with their students.  But what has really happened is that the seemingly idyllic life portrayed in the media is unattainable, and one feels lost.

The teachers unions, another product of the left, have been teaching self esteem rather than the three R's.  Our children are no longer able to express themselves in an intelligent manner (except those who are being home-schooled in the classics).  The unions have turned into Socialist propagadists, losing all pretension of being educators.

Gun control is only a ruse by the left to disarm Americans.  They are responsible for the corrupt behaviour that permeates our society and creates the problem.  Young people, unable to express themselves any other way, turn to violence for their few seconds of fame.  An uneducated culture of deviancy has created this environment, any other blame is misguided at best, but criminally negligent at worst.  Time to put the blame where it belongs.