exactly!
There’s many factors worth looking into for why these young, and older men, carry these acts out.
Many of them come from broken homes, dysfunctional families, many of them were bullied at school.
And many of them were in and out of psychiatric institutions, and on drugs during or around the time the atrocity was committed.
More than perhaps any first world nation, America is a violent culture, it’s in your history, it’s in your media and entertainment.
America has the largest military in the world, and goes to war more than any other nation.
Since WW2, a year hasn’t gone by where America wasn’t at war.
I mean forgive me if I’m sounding condescending here, Canada has its fair share of problems too, but it’s just as fact as fact can be America is more violent.
everything is bigger in America, its penchant for violence is matched by its penchant for innovation, industry and consumption.
Americans are extreme, there’s no half measures with them, when they’re angry, they’re pissed off to the max!
And along with violence there’s arguably a lack of social and governmental support structures, stemming from a sort of dog-eat-dog, Social Darwinian mentality.
I mean other nations have a history of violence too, the UK, Germany, Japan, but these nations are no longer superpowers, the UK has had its heyday, and Germany and Japan have been humiliated.
Decades of exposure to that kind of culture has a cumulative effect, particularly on individuals who, for whatever reasons, genetic, socioeconomic, medical, have a predisposition to anger.