"Is it just my perception or are more people choosing to kill innocent people whenever a girlfriend dumps them or they feel slighted or under-appreciated?"

America has become a nation of children. The last couple of generations are truly scary. If they want something, they just take it. If someone insults them, they kill them or destroy their property. They have no sense of responsibility, no morals, no respect for others, little real education ... in other words, a bunch of two-year-olds having temper tantrums.

There was a section in a book I read about the division and lack of real interaction of the family: kids are imprisoned in schools for much of the day (to no real beneficial effect), both parents work, the old people are incarcerated in old-folks' internment camps. When families were together, they had support, they had sounding boards of other opinions to fall back on, life knowledge that could be passed on from the ones who had been through it. When you were going through a scary part of life, there was a hand on your shoulder to guide and assure you, you knew someone was there, that someone cared.

Now, the kids grow up by themselves. The parents are out of touch with what is really going on, with what their kids are really doing. The old folks look at the photos on their table, long for their family and wish for a quick death.

We are ruled by greed and idiocy, and allow it to happen. Divide the family and conquer the country.

Rome fell. America is on the verge. If this isn't survival-oriented, what is?

Sue