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Showing Original Post only (View all)So, we wage war on other countries for no reason and are suprised when our kids are murderers? [View all]
Thank God, the killers are exceptions, and our people are mostly peaceful, of course.
But we hold nobody accountable for sending us to WAR for no reason at all, and somehow expect young people to follow an ethical code that we, as a nation, have not followed?
Nuts.
I have no idea how to stop the killing, and I know we really must. The loss of not just life, but loving, brilliant, gifted, giving lives, is unfathomably huge for us as a people.
Stunning that there have been two more mass shootings since Charleston. Reading the news today, I don't really have a way to process this other than talking with you guys.
Has anyone heard any kind of reconcilation, peace building, healing processes?
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So, we wage war on other countries for no reason and are suprised when our kids are murderers? [View all]
mahina
Jun 2015
OP
This society is pathologically sick. Gun violence is just one symptom of a public
KingCharlemagne
Jun 2015
#1
I never really bought a conspiracy theory that we were being dumbed down until recently,
mahina
Jun 2015
#46
Precisely: a determined resolve to commit a crime doesn't require a vast number of conspirators.
Betty Karlson
Jun 2015
#48
I never said he was a victim, I don't think he is a victim. That's the farthest thing from my mind.
mahina
Jun 2015
#3
"somehow expect young people to follow an ethical code that we, as a nation, have not followed"
JI7
Jun 2015
#4
he said why he did what he did and it was because he was a racist like the ones this country had
JI7
Jun 2015
#28
The point is not that the Iraq War was the cause of his hate or his actions.
morningfog
Jun 2015
#32
No candidate except Bernie is prepared to change the paradigm of perpetual war.
AtomicKitten
Jun 2015
#8
haha, internally doesn't count ? how black people are treated by law enforcement doesn't count ?
JI7
Jun 2015
#34
There are a lot of people on this board with whom I don't agree whom I am happy to discuss
mahina
Jun 2015
#36
Are you suggesting that invading other countries for no reason is standard and acceptable?
mahina
Jun 2015
#38
I sadly agree. Violence at home is so apropo to oppose,, but voting for wars is
SaranchaIsWaiting
Jun 2015
#24
It's just some "folks" killing some "folks". As long as it isn't our "folks" it's all good.
L0oniX
Jun 2015
#49