>>>Why illness? How about it is a sign of the complete lack of moral values a lot of younger people have now that they live out of day care with replaceable or non-existant parents, no religion, no respect for law, no respect for school - the result of half a century of dismantling of the American family by those who try to see how 'liberal' they can be.
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>>Because if that were the case, we'd be seeing this kind of behavior all over. Since violent crime is generally down in the last 15 years, that doesn't seem to be the case.
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>Seems pretty popular now.

"Seems" is the key word, in my view. I suspect that's the influence of 24-hour news channels and the Internet.

The stats indicate that violent crime is down. We're hearing about a lot of incidents we wouldn't have heard about 30 years ago.

Tamar