But most of all, the major factor is the ill-fated culture of this era, which is influencing our youths. Rock singers praise killers, and video games are mostly filled with violent shootings and killings. Studies show that American children watch 8,000 or more killings through TV and video, before graduating from elementary school. And when they graduate from high school, they will have watched more than 200,000 killings. Students' suicide rate has increased 300 percent since the 1960s.
Death is cool and killing has become heroic.
Youths' culture has been ill-fated. It is very much like getting the flu, inhaling the infected air. This is a problem in the United States.