Where do you place the blame for all the mass random killings that happen in the U.S.?

Question

It's easy to just blame it on the individual but I strongly disagree with anyone who thinks that it's no one elses fault. I place the blame on american society as a whole. Public schools in particular. They are a breeding ground for hate and often push teens to the limit. I also blame society for giving uo on people. If you get arrested when your 18 and go to jail for even say 2 years, your done. Why don't people wake up? The things done now to stop bullying in schools and to "help" convicts" I think actually make things worse.

Answer 1

Why dont people take care of themselves and not get into trouble. I am sick of people blaming society for their screw ups. Majority of the people in this country have their hardships, and they soldier up and do what needs to be done. You screw up, its on you.

Answer 2

It's society's fault! And how they're raised! We are a society who demand equal rights to do whatever the hell we want and that includes own a deadly weapon.
So, with a deprived indavejewal who can't read because he was in the back of the room displaying his family jewels, mix that with a society that defends the rights of that indivejewal to do just as he pleases and has to have a diploma just like everyone else including those who actually worked for it and then of course the constitution says that he has every right to own a deadly automatic killing machine cause he is a part of the militia ain't he.
This is a mixed up place
Thanks

Answer 3

Sorry. It is the individual. For proof, all you have to do is look at the countless people that start off bad, (picked on, juvie crimes, poor family life,....) but turn out to be valuable members of society. If your theory was correct, these things would happen many times more often than they do. By the way, teenage years are stressful and kids are cruel by nature. I don't care who's society you look at. Teens here have it softer than most, as a matter of fact.

Answer 4

Individual's must, unfortunately be blamed, but I agree that the greater fault is in the culture that breeds the violence, creates and maintains the aggressive lifestyle, allows the weapons to be so easily acquired and used. Schools are a major part and a result of much of the, I believe, "dumbing-down" of the institution ever since Ronald Reagan, so influenced by the religious fundamentalists, was president.

All of these conditions are permitted to be major factors influencing American culture - and I think it has been intentional... It divides us from ourselves, separates us from one another, permits the "powers that be" as illegitimate as they are, to continue their ever-strangling hold upon us and ourselves. Worse, this culture of violence is spread around the world - and the world becomes fragmented, divisive, and violent....war, war, war.

It might seem contradictory to put some of the blame on religious fundamentalists, but they are so intolerant of those not of their faith that their maneuvers over the years have been to intentionally create worse public school systems while building their own. And the way in which intolerance is expressed in America is through death-cult beliefs... "You are damned if you don't believe...." **** like that.

Answer 5

It's easy to blame the individual because he/she is the one that actually went around killing people, not society.

Blaming the public school system is a joke: my husband and I both attended public schools and neither of us even have a criminal record. I was bullied from 5-12th grade, so please don't use that as an excuse to beat up and kill people.

And going to prison (any sentence 1 year or longer is a prison sentence, not a jail sentence) does not destroy your life. I have a friend who did five years for possession with intent to sell and he rebuilt his life after prison because he wanted to. Many of the probationers and parolees I met while working in that field were stubborn and refused to admit they had a problem and thus did not invest any effort or time in trying to improve themselves or their situation.

Answer 6

Do you have any idea how long people have been killing each other?
If everyone who was angry, isolated and a misfit in high school killed groups of people hardly anyone would be left alive.
It is the fault of the killer. Aided to some degree by the fact that we have no mental hospitals to put crazy people in without their consent anymore. And make no mistake, serial killers are crazy and have many brushes with the system but we have not given doctors and parents the ability to deal with their psychologically damaged children without the child's permission. We eliminated too many hospitals and now we have some very damaged people on the streets.
But in the end, its the killer who cannot handle the stresses and instead of simply committing suicide, now wants his face on the evening news.

Answer 7

Why do some people always have to blame someone else for an individuals behavior? We have far more people who grow up in the same society without going postal, raping, robbing, stealing, assaulting, forging checks, shoplifting, burning buildings, vandalizing, or otherwise violating the morals and laws of the land. Why is that? This kid was a head case. The only problem with society was, it didn't ID him as such and have him institutionalized before he had his meltdown. My only regret is that he just didn't lock himself in his bathroom to punch his ticket.

Answer 8

For the most part I blame parents. Parents are no longer parenting their children. The time that should be spent teaching little Junior to grow up into a responsible child is spent trying to come up with excuses for why the schools should be nicer to them or getting them diagnosed with some bogus disability.
Kids today do not understand logical consequences to their actions because Mommy and Daddy are too damned busy trying to be their friend!

It's time to stop worrying about "kids feelings" and worry about their future ability to cope in the world!

Answer 9

Blaming society is a cop out, an attempt to place the blame someplace, the place there is no blame to assign. there have been mad dogs in each era. each us of a has had it is run-ins with serial killers, crazed snipers and mass murderers. The human recommendations is an unknown, uncharted area. and no person knows for specific what is going on in the minds of those animals. we are able to easily cope with them after the certainty, and attempt to substantiate that they by no skill, ever, roam loose lower back

Answer 10

For the most part, I do blame the individual. They need to take responsibility for their actions. However, as a society, we try to ignore what we don't want to see. We make excuses for ourselves and others. As for public schools, it isn't the school that is the problem. It is the PARENTS who are the problem. The parents don't make the schools, or their children accountable.

Answer 11

1. Don't blame the victims

2. Public Schools are dysfunctional.

Public schools in the USA contribute to the 'atomization' of society.