Your forty-one years isn’t long enough to remember the Texas University bell tower massacre, but in 1966 forty-nine were shot and sixteen were killed by a shooter there. Maybe we weren’t as moral and reverent as you believe we were, or maybe we became moral and reverent after this incident, then fell back to immorality sometime after you were born.
That shooter had a large brain tumor. He was simply insame and a good shot as he had been a Marine.
I’m old enough to remember.
The point I was trying to make is that extreme acts of violence on a grand scale seem to be more commonplace in this country today. Or dd they happen this often in the 1970s and 1980s, and we’ve only become more aware of them because of the internet?
I will stand by my view that a large segment of our populace believes in nothing larger than their own self, and as a result have very little means of coping rationally with the bad times in life. Others are motivated by hatred and evil. There does seem to be some correlation between an increase in secularism and the general decay of our society.
Some of that shooting was broadcast live——and was positively frightening.
That type of live reporting is routine now.
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