Our society worships selfishness, fame, hate, violence, guns and bullies and we shouldn't be surprised we create monsters like Nikolas Cruz. The same sick values that created this monster are embodied in our national leaders and legislators who give us insanely lax gun laws. Even so-called 'liberals' who decry our lax gun laws are part of our bullying culture and it shows as most of them turn a blind eye to the bullying which mutated Cruz and other school shooters and leads to counless suicides by others who are bullied. Even the Liberal mockery of 'Thoughts and Prayers' represents hateful bullying.
It's obvious to me that we need much stronger laws over the control of guns, but there is a bigger point here. Our citizenry and our most basic values have become selfish, cruel and violent. Friendship has become a mafia, heroes have become evil, killing has become fun. We are now a world of bullies with technological capabilities never dreamed of only 100 years ago.
Pop Culture reflects our society very well. Christmas ads where the more wealthy mock the less. Car ads where people risk their lives and other's thrill seeking. Music and Movies that lust for blood. In today's world Bullies are Cool. Ashawnty Davis was bullied because she was a great basketball player. Gabriella Green was bullied because she was beautiful. Adam Lanza was bullied because he looked different.
Ten year old Ashawnty hung herself after video of a schoolyard fight showing her being beaten mercilessly was posted on the internet. Twelve year old Gabriella hung herself after she was painted as a slut on the internet. 20 year old Adam shot himself in the head at the school he attended through 6th grade where he was bullied as 'a freak', but he killed 26 people before taking his own life.
I know that there is no excuse for what Adam Lanza did. Killing is not the answer, but what further punishment could we as a society have threatened to stop him? He wanted to die. And the people who bullied the two young girls certainly deserve to die more than Ashawnty and Gabriella did.
Our values have become cold, hateful and vile and we are reaping what we've sewn.
Ashawnty Davis
https://nypost.com/2017/12/01/bullied-10-year-old-girl-hangs-herself/
Gabriella Green
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/2-preteens-busted-cyberbullying-student-hangs-article-1.3775109
Adam Lanza
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/lanza-article-1.1309766
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