The Real Problem

It is not guns, it is not drugs, it is not any of the symptoms of a decayed country that is the cause of the violence in the US and apparently around the world. It is Society,  people, average citizens. It is apathy and selfishness so extreme that it looks like save yourself while stomping over others also running.  From whom are we running ? The shooters? The drug dealers ( and please include the doctors in this category) who is at fault for this failing country( I will stay with the USA since the models fits every where else).
As a species we really are pathetic now a days. We are so xenophobic that the slightest divination for an artificial norm and people freak out and go nuts.
Then there are the ultra rich who are not the least bit enlightened nor educated nor fully human with the traits that define humanity. These people have become so rich ( FEW on their own merit and work) that their most deviant, depraved, and immoral thoughts and desires can and do turn in to actions of monumental proportions afflicting the poor people around them and where ever they can cause havoc in the lives of others who have no recourse nor protection  .... much like the stories of the ancient barons, counts, and other aristocracy who wrought havoc in the countryside. Now the ultra rich who seem to be above any law civil or moral have been working towards their perverse desires. It has been going on for a few decades now....these perverted people who are now old, have moved into the political circles and bought as many of the politicians as they can. It will be easier to count those not bought than those owned outright and are in thrall to their masters.
As for guns, yes they are weapons.....however it is not the weapon that kills it is the Society that allows violence to become normal, acceptable and excusable. Those who can change this all are also in thrall to their leaders no reasonable republican nor democrat wants children murdered in school. However we have no more reason no more sense  in either party. Both have sold out and Society....the voters are OK with this or why would deplorable people continue to be elected? It is the greedy and selfish voter who covets their money so much  that even they very hint of paying taxes makes their head cloud up and and and all compassion and sense is erased. Of course until they are affected it becomes another story they become angry that THEY are now victimized by their own desires for others to suffer.
 Corporations are the greediest of all, no matter the human cost they crave profits above all else.  They buy companies not for the product they create but for the profit they create or the way to transfer debt then that new company can die ex. Toys R Us and a hundred other companies, that have shuttered their doors not from lack of customers but from corporate maneuvers to transfer debt and make money. Move jobs over seas...not to help a struggling country gain employment but to penalize American workers who want a living wage and to exploit the need for work in the another country that will work for less because their standard of living is 70 years behind the USA's standard of living.
All this has contributed to the stress and anger of regular people. Many people have always been living on the mental edge of breakdown. Some turn to drugs to ease the pain; some have pain from the work they had to do to keep a roof over their head, some served this country in the corporate wars and were discarded once they can no longer serve mammon. Drugs are a way to escape the mental and physical pain.
Some lash out at the boot of injustice crushing their neck we call them terrorists.  Some lash out to society to hurt those who have caused them their pain. Many innocents die. Then many more creators of violence are born the moment they see no justice exists in this world. We are told to pray to god and told a better world awaits us after death. AND THAT IS THE CRUX of the international problem of violence .....we need to die to have a better life. If that does not cause us pause, it that does not give us a what the crap are you talking about moment then you are the problem. We only have this one life,( even if there is reincarnation we still have only one life at a time.....)
So those who tell us to pray and believe have fostered this violence with their sanguine apathy of better things to come. While of course they live a fat bountiful full life of good times, good food,  regal shelter, and enough clothes to not be in rags....
The rich who prey on the poor and suck their life's blood and then those poor deluded ones who think this life in unimportant and something better will await..... They work hand in hand to make the vast majority of other lives suffer.  The rich love the perverse sadistic suffering and they have convinced  the like minded, though too poor, to indulge in their sadistic ways. While the religious are working with an incomplete set of cards trying to play the game where there are no winners only losers. This is a wonderful world humans have created.....and some of us humans see this and despair and those of us who see this transcend despair and try hard to opt out......
Society at large is the problem ...full of their greed, lust, perversity and all the horrors the humans mind can create and think to inflict on those with no recourse no protector.....until one day the people become the mob like in the France or Russia and revolt .........but that will not happen......too many people are OK with they status quo. Sad ......