@Matt_VanDyke How do we expect our society to respect life when for over 40 years it has become easily disposable?

@Matt_VanDyke I believe it is a mixture of both + lack of services to youth with special needs and mental health, most school's are not dealing with hurting individuals correctly by providing the support they need, instead they suggest meds and expel them in response to bad behavior/threats.

@Matt_VanDyke All the reasons you pointed above are part of the problem. #Mentalhealth , lack of resources plus access to #automaticweapons and an online/offline culture that is desensitized.. especially by the #media , gun and gaming industries. #Hollywood , #socialmedia . #stonemanshooting

@Matt_VanDyke @mckra1g All that ... but it still is about the guns too. Just because our overarching societal structure is totally messed up - doesn't mean we let the guns off the hook.

@Matt_VanDyke It's taken us years to create these troubled kids/adults. There's plenty more of them so they will not stop. We just keep providing these "Target Rich Areas" with little, to no defenses

@Matt_VanDyke All of it!

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@Matt_VanDyke This is evident when you see Masterchef America and Masterchef Australia. I love both of them and watch them. One I can see with my pre teen kids. The other, most definitely not.

@Matt_VanDyke 110% agreed. Well sad from Matthew VanDyke who has spent years training people how to defend their home, villages and, country, having seen the atrocities of oppressive regimes! Thank you Mathew for the very CLEAR failure of our culture promoting violence desensitizing society!

@scottmartin12 @RogueGrl76 @Matt_VanDyke Tell that to those who mourn to 20 subjects who died by suicide in Paxil clinical trials.

@Matt_VanDyke Brilliantly said... WOW

@Matt_VanDyke Spot on!

@Matt_VanDyke American Culture....! Perhaps...!

@Matt_VanDyke They all predicted he would be the school shooter and that prediction was a joke to them all... Now reality isn't so funny. They should have spotted he had problems and connected with him instead joked about it. Sad sad world. Ppl look to make a joke out of almost ANYTHING

@Matt_VanDyke With guns that fire multiple rounds within seconds that are very easy to get. Yea, that also.

@Matt_VanDyke Without God, evil infests the soul leading to chaos, pain, and suffering. That, is the root of the problem.

@Matt_VanDyke While all those things may be true there is one thing that when removed from the situation changes the outcome- GUNS. We are the only country this stupid and we need to call it stupid. Get rid of stupid in government VOTE BLUE.

@Matt_VanDyke No doubt we have a mental health problem in this country. MH is more then "sane" vs "insane" but how folks process their input and act on it. Depression and insecurity can lead to dark outcomes. Yes, we absolutely need to address our violent culture as frame for pos MH discussion

@Matt_VanDyke You think other countries didn’t deal with violence? The stats show you where the problem is but you don’t want to deal with it since NRA $ are the real power here.