I wonder if Biden's policies succeed could it decrease mass killings and racism?

[Kablooie]

My daughter doesn't want to bring a child into the world because she sees the future as bleak and horrific.
All the problems of climate change, income disparities, unaffordable housing, racism, violence etc. create the image of a forbidding world ahead.

I wonder if the societal ills we currently experience are due to this gloomy outlook for the future?

If Biden succeeds with his policies and serious climate change controls are established, incomes become more equitable, schools and housing becomes more affordable and jobs more plentiful it could create a new attitude of hope for the future that is lacking right now. If this new attitude really took hold, like it did in the 1930's with FDR's new deal, it could change the character of our society.

A feeling of hope instead of fear among Americans might decrease the violent lashing out at others in all it's forms and bring us back to a society that we are proud to live in.

[Voltaire2]

1. did you mean mass killings?

serial killers are an almost entirely different problem.

[Kablooie]

2. You're right. I updated the title.

Serial killings are due to personal mental issues.
Mass killers certainly have mental issues too but to strike out openly at strangers I'm sure is largely influenced by societal pressures.

[lagomorph777]

3. No matter how good society is, there will always be crazy people.

So eliminating guns as a factor is needed in addition to the other changes.

[Kablooie]

6. Yes, but gun control is part of Biden's agenda too.

Only in recent years have there been so many mass shootings. If society could become more positive overall perhaps the way the crazies express their frustrations may be different than just killing a bunch of strangers.

[lagomorph777]

7. Japan has crazies too - they just can't shoot people.

You can probably reduce the number of radicalized kooks, by doing something about Putin, social media, etc. But the biological kooks will always be there; we can reduce their impact with gun control.

[WhiskeyGrinder]

4. That's a pretty tall order. The New Deal certainly did not decrease racism. In fact, in many cases,

it established or strengthened racist policies that entrenched income gaps and other inequities.

[Darwins_Retriever]

5. No

Everybody is to divided. Republicans will always see what Biden does as bad and even evil. Evangelicals see everything Biden will do as trying to weaken their power.

[Klaralven]

8. Mass killings are a tiny percentage of total homicides - so homicides might be a problem.

Most gun homicides are done using a semi-automatic pistol, with a 9 mm being the most frequent caliber.

[EX500rider]

10. "so homicides might be a problem."

And 93 countries have higher homicide rate then the US, including many people consider idyllic like Panama, Antigua, Costa Rica, the Bahamas, Jamaica etc


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intentional_homicide_rate

[redstatebluegirl]

9. I wish, but you can't legislate someone's moral compass.

They will always be around, but what has changed is that there are more people who accept them, especially racists. Nothing short of shunning and shaming them will get them to stand down and go back under their rocks. Will they go away, no, will they be less vocal and in our faces, yes. It has to become a bad thing again, when they can't get jobs, keep jobs, be taken seriously and are shunned by their neighbors, it isn't as easy to hate out loud. They will still hate, that never goes away, but all we can hope for is making it less acceptable as a society.