So you're blaming Boomers and early Gen Xers for traumatizing later Gen Xers and Millennials in their youth, causing them to raise shitty Late-millenial and Gen Zers that are currently terrorizing some students to the point they're snapping on their classmates?
school shootings have been a thing since columbine, but not to this degree. Though I certainly think we would have less of what's going on now if the parenting was better. And I think the parenting would be better if they were raised by better parents. I would not use the word "traumatized" though. You learn how to parent from your parents. And to a certain extent, you can pass along your own issues and insecurities. Look at these mass shootings, and almost to a T they are from shitty home environment. Certainly, there is an absolute fuckton that goes into that. But showing your children love, support, and just having a positive presence in their lives goes a MASSIVE way.
I haven't heard much about this last shooting. I'm guessing that it's because the shithead didn't use an AR style gun and instead used a "small caliber" handgun (I'm guessing a 9mm?) and a pump action 12 gauge. Probably wouldn't get support trying to ban two of the most common firearms in America.
Yeah, simply another case where safe storage laws would have prevented it, if the guns came from his household. Pass safe storage laws, with super stiff sentencing guidelines for parents that fail to do it, it'll prevent some of these things in the long run. I'm really hoping for some decent prison time for the Crumbleys, trial is later this month, I think.
I am 100% in agreement with everything you wrote. And as far as bad parenting goes- if anyone thinks that the last generation or two of parents were any worse than the generations before you are sadly mistaken. Parenting could be just as bad back in the day- just talk to those of us who are older, and know what crappy parents some of our grandparents and great grandparents were. I think the issue is that the world is so much more complicated now. Being a decent parent has never been easy for many people, and things like social media and the politicizing of every. Single. Issue. make guiding a child’s growth and maturation incredibly difficult.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/15/us/deja-taylor-sentence-virginia-shooting.html Mother of the six year old boy that shot and injured his teacher gets 21 months on the charges of using weed and owning a gun, and two years for the felony child neglect. It's a start, I guess. Hopefully, these other, similar cases, that ended with loss of life, get longer sentences. Time to stop playing with these parents that may not be the ones pulling the trigger, but are at fault nonetheless.
I can't read the article due to the paywall, but what's the story behind the bolded part? In Virginia you can get sent to jail for partaking in the herb and owning a gun?
The way bullying happens today, it's exponentially worse than anything we grew up with. Because it doesn't end at your doorway. It follows you into your bedroom, into your private social media, into your group chats. And not even bullying like getting picked on or assaulted, but just the general everyday stress of being a hormonal teenager, you get no breaks from it. You're always On. The social internet was a mistake.
Soon, the most well adjusted kids will be the ones that were homeschooled... by decent parents, not the weirdos.
It doesn’t just follow you, it stays around forever to make sure that even as an adult you’ll never be able to live it down. We all had humiliating and embarrassing moments as kids. For instance, if we had a sissy crying fit that sounded like a UK ambulance, it WASN’T RECORDED AND DOCUMENTED FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD TO SEE:
That kid is still safe via the "statute of limitations" that is shitty 2mp video from a VoiceStream flip phone. So blurry you'd never recognize him.
It went from social networking to social media. It's crowd sourced product creation, and is an exercise in the extremes of human vanity.
That video is fifteen years old, and I bet his high school bullies— who still have his home address, by the way— drive by his house weekly while blasting that video over a PA system for the neighbourhood to hear.
The official media, like the newspapers and networks, are businesses. So, they're going to be biased. And they're not biased towards the right like Fox News or biased towards the left like CNN - they're biased towards making money. That's the coverage you're going to get. If it doesn't fit the hot narrative or blow something wide open that gets views and viewers, it doesn't get media'd. So, you get the "social media"