Evil will come, no matter what the form. 
Man with axe kills four at crèche in southern Brazil | Reuters
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The article also mentions another incident where a 13 year old stabbed their teacher to death and wounded 5 other students. Are people everywhere becoming more unhinged or in the age of the internet are we just getting more of these stories spread around? Suspect it’s a little of both?
At least the article didn’t share the names of the attackers so they don’t get their 15 minutes of fame. Which turns out to be years of fame in the US thanks to the news media:(
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This is Greta’s and AOC’s fault. They’ve informed this generation that law and order is bulls#|T and that the world is going to end in 10 years.
They have nothing to live for! Add to that the prospect of a nuclear war and Armageddon is written all over the walls!
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“The attacker had a history of violence and drugs, and had stabbed his stepfather in March 2021, police said.”
Red Flag laws would have prevented that 
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It seems to me that a pattern is emerging. Almost every single instance of violence, there’s been a “history” of violence and in some cases drugs!
Who says you can’t fix stupid, if you catch it in time, it can be fixed! But the government took that power away from parents!
The bad news is this can’t be fixed. It will take a new generation!
I don’t have that kind of time!
Stupid can still be fixed, it’s just going to hurt!
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We’re living in the beginning of the end times. I’m 66 years old. I used to park my truck at school with a gun rack inside of the back window which had a loaded 22/410 over under & a 12 guage pump. Nobody thought twice about it. We fought with our fists. Nobody was shot or stabbed. Sure, poeple were evil then as they are now but the baseline of violence today is shooting & stabbing, not punching & kicking. It seems that life is cheap to the upcoming generation like it is in most 3rd world countries. I’m not saying that there aren’t many wonderful moral young people who understand right from wrong. I’m saying that people without any moral compass actually believe that they will be revered for taking a life because they think it makes them a badass. The sad fact is that it just makes them another coward.
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I agree that this is the end times, I’m 71, when I was young the only video game that I remember was as a teen we had unisonic , It had pingpong, a target shooting game, and there was something else but I don’t remember. The TV shows were Father Knows Best, Leave It To Beaver, and the like. If they had disagreements Dad would encourage them to talk it out, there were sometimes fist fights , but in the end they worked it out without shooting someone. Today’s video games, movies and tv shows seem to encourage using a firearm or other weaponry to solve any and all disputes. Any problem, or if someone doesn’t agree with you just pull out a gun, that will solve the problem. And as for as discipline, my parents believed in “spare the rod, spoil the child”, today that would be “child abuse”. This is a sad world we live in today. I’m glad that I grew up when I did, I feel bad for my grandkids. Hopefully they will learn to vote for right over wrong, and not just for the promise of free things.
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The disgusting part of this to me is the targeting of little kids. I can kind of rationalize targeting adults, someone did something to someone, but not little kids? Even if they kick you in the nut, metaphorically speaking, they are innocent. Not to mention an alleged adult with a weapon attacking injuring and killing small children, in front of other small children is the epitome of evil.
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In days gone by, one person killing one other person in Brazil probably wouldn’t be making the news in the USA.
Also, anything like this is guaranteed to generate clicks, views, likes, traffic, ad revenue, etc
Murders including mass murders of children goes back literally thousands of years
I’d detail the things commonly known and recorded throughout history, back hundreds and thousands of years, but those things are too inappropriate to type out on this forum.
No, we aren’t all going to hell and suddenly behaving in ways we never used to. Relatively speaking, we live in the safest least violent softest time probably in all of human history
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True, when a city was conquered, either they all died or most died, women and children included, and the rest were taken as slaves. That is even in the Bible. In “Biblical” times, they did not allow any enemies to survive, except as slaves. However, shooting children in a school is far different than laying seige to a city and conquering an enemy.
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To me, the most frustrating aspect of the trend of mass violence (shooting, stabbing, vehicles), is that nobody is asking why there are more people that are capable of performing these atrocities. Gun Control? No. Access to guns is harder (not easier) than it used to be. Mental Health? Probably a factor, but there is more access to help now than before, and less of a stigma to seeking help. However, I think that many people are more isolated than they used to be, which is not good for mental health.
In my humble opinion, there are a few things that have changed that have contributed to this problem : (1) A decline in parenting that allows kids to access / possess firearms without the parents knowledge, and/or not be aware of a child struggling with mental health issues, (2) the lack of any moral compass in media / entertainment, along with the lack of other positive influences for kids (parents, family, church, Scouting, etc.), and (3) the negative impact of our social media culture, where being “infamous “ is valued as much as being “famous”.
Unfortunately, I don’t have a solution for these issues, other than personally trying to be involved in my community. I also think that making schools and other areas more secure would help.
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Is it, though?
Is over running an entire city, raping, murdering, and enslaving untold thousands of children (and adults), so much different? Seems several orders of magnitude worse, ‘back in the day’, to me.
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Does that really surprise anyone? After decades of being told that people are nothing more than animals, why would we expect people to behave like a higher form of life than what they were raised to believe they were?
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Social media is the Devil’s playground.
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It has been going on forever. It’s just now we get the reports almost instantaneously where before it may take weeks to get to your neck of the woods or longer. Because of the instantaneous reporting the level of desensitizing is greater. Once a people are desensitized to this sort of thing it tends to increase in numbers kind of like a self-fulfilling prophecy I think. Just my opinion
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I agree though I think there has been an uptick in violence over the past couple years that goes at least a little beyond the noise generated by the news media. What I wonder is if this is a temporary blip in an otherwise mostly safe period of time or the start of a new upward trend?
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I suspect it’s just a blip. My experience has been, as a society, we will put up with increases in violence or the like until it get’s “out of hand”. Then we step up and take action, politically, and at a community level.
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I hope so. But in a country with a fragile, debt laden, bubble fueled economy and a world of limited resources where more and more people are expecting a higher standard of living I’m concerned that the pressure and dissatisfaction are going to keep increasing.
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And to make matters worse, the left is in overdrive. They sing the deadly, Siren song of marxist/maoist class envy and redistribution of wealth. Equity and restorative justice are the related ideas to complete the programming.
They have no idea that they will be even worse off, unless they are the “elite” in that distopian nightmare.
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