The 2nd Amendment has been with us from our 1776 beginnings, so what has changed to foster the rash of mass shootings over the last ten years? True guns have become more lethal, but we have enacted stringent laws that govern their ownership and use. The attitude of the law-abiding adult population, most of whom have never owned or fired a gun, has not changed, being fully aware of their menace to society in the wrong hands. So again, what has changed that has manifested this relatively recent lawlessness, this carnage? What has changed, in my observation: Our gun laws are not being enforced; our society’s characteristics and demographics have created a more conducive environment for disorder in being piled on top of one another in major urban areas, better suited for fermenting hostilities and aggressiveness; anarchists of every stripe have infiltrated our society and given latitude to further their agendas; our tolerance for lawlessness in our policing has increased in the politicization and defunding of our law enforcement; our tolerance for graphic violence in our entertainment media has undoubtedly had a corrosive effect on our psyche; the mentally ill have been infused into the general population in the guise of compassion; the availability of mind-altering drugs certainly to be considered a contributing factor. All of the preceding are exacerbated by the ubiquitous internet presence in our lives and its ever-taunting social media, cable, and NPR platforms content. Those tech and media companies' purveyors of a din of disinformation through data collection can thought drive distorted opinions and inflame emotions. I can’t imagine we are in the minority in this causal appraisal; the question is, why aren't we doing something about it? Why do we dwell on the inanimate gun for the solution as opposed to the human conditions?
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