These terrible attacks are not just happening here. However, our news media focuses on some things, and totally ignores others.
When we had the mudslide in Washington State, it was around the same time as the Chile earthquake, and there were many tragedies there, but barely (if at all)mentioned in our news. We were busy listening to the Pistorius trial, or some equally non-essential reporting.
At the same timeframe as the Newtown shootings in Connecticut; there was a school shooting (or other attack ) inChina that killed and wounded many students.
We simply are not being told most of what happens in other countries, unless we search out other news sources besides our mainstream media.
As for WHY this is happening in so many places, it is hard to say for sure, and there are undoubtedly several causes to factor in to the answer.
We have talked about the gun issue, and the SSRI medication that so many children are put on now days; but there is another thing that I believe plays a very big part in all this, and that is the violent video games that the children are playing now.
It is ridiculous ! On one hand, you can be thrown out of school for chewing your poptart to resemble a gun; but it is fine if you go home from school and sit at your PS playing Call of Duty, or any of the other violent games. It is literally a virtual
reality that these kids are in, and the purpose is to kill as many of the "enemy" as possible.
Some kids seem to live in this world, rather than in real life.
Even the television shows are not much better. Zombies, gruesomeness, and violent deaths and mutilations.
When I was a kid, we played cowboys and indians, but nothing was ever violent, it was just mostly a lot of running around , while doing "war whoops" at the top of our lungs. Way different than what the children of today are exposed to on an everyday basis.
HappyFlowerLady