The Shooting Generation

I was inspired to write my thoughts on the shooting generation after the two recent shootings. Last night a man killed five people and injured two more at a city council meeting in Kirkwood, MO. He was then shot and killed by the police. Just a few hours ago a woman killed herself and two other women at a Louisiana college. It makes me wonder how all of these violent acts are going to affect our generation. The majority of this violence started almost 10 years ago with the Columbine shootings. Since then there have been 18 major school shootings and that is not all of them I'm sure. We were in high school when schools started to implement special id's and metal detectors. Now that we are in college we are seeing more shootings at colleges. Now it seems that people are taking violence out of schools and bringing it into public places like the city council meeting or the Omaha mall shooting. What about our generation makes us so violent? I do not understand what goes through these shooters minds. Not only have we lived through school shootings we have also lived through 9/11 and plenty more acts of violence.

It makes me wonder when our generation decided that the way to solve our problems was to shoot innocent people. It also makes me wonder how this is going to affect our generation in the future and the generations to come. It is a scary time to live in this country because you never know when someone is going to start shooting. What are your thoughts on why this is happening or how it can be stopped? I know I can not figure it out.