Scorch: No, these issues have always been around. We have had killers like Caligula, the James boys, Dillinger, Hitler and Himmler around ever since time began (usually self-centered sociopaths with no regard for others' rights or ideas that disagree with theirs). The biggest difference is that society used to make sure kids understood the difference between right and wrong at a fairly early age. Nowadays they are taught that there is no right or wrong, it's how you feel that makes it right or wrong. Morality is a no-no, and protecting kids from the consequences of their actions is a mandate. So you get kids that commit minor crimes at early ages, and they are sheltered from law enforcement by short-sighted teachers who are trying to be nice, which leads them to commit bigger crimes because they got away with it the last time. It's a very complex issue that gets people all fired up because some of those kids are theirs. Solution? Don't know.
Don't know? I think you answered your own question there, bub. As (keyword) responsible adults, we have an obligation to bestow upon our little ones a sense of what's right and wrong, and a working concept of consequences for one's actions. We don't need any governments permission to do so, and as a society, we have indeed gotten lazy about it, and now we're reaping what has been sewn.
You're completely right too, in saying that it's always been there. Since before written history, there have been wolves among the sheep. In today's digital age however, the wolves are getting a lot more press (CNN makes more money that way, and the OP's silence makes me believe he's just here to stir that pot). I think it would behoove us to take whatever we see in the news with a grain of salt to a degree as individuals, agree to take our youth's hand and lead them down the right roads just as we were.
We, the good people of the world, are still the majority. Putting a bullhorn and a camera in front of a few confused individuals, giving them some press, doesn't change that, or our responsibilities to the future generations that we can directly affect by looking at our kids and saying "see that? Don't be like that" and so on and so forth. Keeping the riffraff (those who would pander to such minorities) elected out of Washington helps quite a bit, too.
TL;DR: I'm brainwashing my kids to be members of a freedom sleeper cell. They just don't know it.
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