Yesterday i watched bowling for columbine. The question still seems to be why is their so much violence in the usa?

Violence begets violence.

You can only push someone so far before they snap.

And bullying has not been taken out of our schools.  In fact, there are actual classes that encourage bullying of others.  It's called "PE" or "Gym".  Then there is the "mental bullying" of cliques.  They will always exist in groups of people. 

That is not an excuse.  But it's a fact. 

Guns 🔫🔫🔫🔫🔫😝. USA 'RIGHT' to own 50 guns per person and what seems to be USA enjoyment with murder 😔🙁😢😕😟. 

You know what? I blame some of this on technology. Kids nowadays are always playing with gadgets and no interacting with one another. They are loosing their ability to talk to each other. Instead of learning how to deal with people, both good and bad, they pent everything up until they can't take it anymore. They do one of two things, they either try to kills themselves or they try to take out as many people as they can.

Crime, general speaking, does seem to be perpetually on the rise, mostly because crimes are now reported more than ever before in history and there is a higher population density on the earth than ever before in history.  Statistics show reported crimes ... Not unreported, nor take into consideration reported crimes that have been deemed as bogus so even THEY don't reflect the reality of just how much is happening.

With our perpetual increase in population there seems to be a distinct correlation between that and our perpetual decline in morality.  Society in general is become more self righteous, self indulgent and entitled.  I look at our younger generations in comparison to our older generation in terms of a measure of scale. There was a time where the common mindset lived by the ideal "it takes a village to raise a child' .. Children were taught manners and appreciation for hard work to get what they needed in the world. Expectations were high and hard. If they didn't concede, they were ostricized by society itself.  Even though that idealogy had flaws, somehow they pale in comparisson to now days, where that is not so prevalent. It seems common practice (now) to teach our young to take advantage of the 'system', to feel entitled to being spoon fed and enabled to do so. We've gone from one end of the spectrum where children experienced corporal punishment to no punishment or consequences at all. Children are allowed to act badly in schools, in public, at home because now we overcompensate for previously barbaric behaviour modification methods. They seem to even be supported to engage in violence thanks to our 'accepted' media and the entertainment industry. Graphic violence is glorified in movies and games.

We seem to forget that it is our young who will someday run this globe.  They take their learned behaviours and encorporate them into their environment where they themselves become victims of it as they age.

I think there's violence everywhere to some degree.  It's just with 300+ million people in the US .. Our stats are going to look worse.  Personally, I've lived in the US my entire life and don't know anyone who is or has been violent.  I haven't been a victim of violence either.  The US is always more visible since it's such a big part of world politics and controversy ... Based on the press wanting to sell their stories and movie makers wanting to sell their films.

Dear Otis,

I have thought about this many years, and truthfully we are a species that copies what we see, and our culture is filled with movie/music/video game/daily news violence.

And then we try to control the violence with laws.

For centuries maybe millennia before outside influence, in the Hopi culture it was simply unthinkable to harm another human being.

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We can do that in the broader culture also.