Mass shootings trends: Are violent video games responsible?

In the wake of  mass shootings or killing trends in America today, one would not doubt that there is something wrong with the socio economic culture thereof.  We are living in a dream period of time, where  we have all sorts of gadgets. This gadgets  helps us do whatever we want without moving an inch. You can order pizza without even picking up a telephone. We are able to communicate to the whole world just by the touch of a button on the keyboard. This is something that many generations that lived before us would have envied. They use to travel many days to get to the other side of the world. We are able to do it in un believable time. And yet we are the least patient generation in the history of time. It seem the more the inventions that make our life easy, the less the patient of that people. Its not just being impatient, its also being selfish and unappreciative.


Had someone told me that many years ago before I migrated to the  first world. I would never had believed him/her. Growing up in the  tiny villages of  Midlands in Zimbabwe, I had no knowledge of the outside world. We did everything by hand.. We had no form of electronic s at all. As a matter of fact we did not even have electricity and running water. For water we had to dig up some wells. For fuel we had to go and fetch some firewood in the forest. For food we had to farm. Most of the times we used our bare hands, except few times when we were lucky to have somebody lend us their oxen to plough. There was no wall mart, no grocery stores and no fast foods around. We had to walk half a day to get to the nearest store. Almost 90% of the times, us the  kids used to be sent to the stores for any grocery needs. Mostly it was sugar, and tea leaves. We ground our maize . And that was tedious process. We did not have any buses to ferry us to school. We had to walk at least 10 miles to and from. Some times bare footed. be it in winter or summer.

Now that I leave in the developed world. I wish my kids would experience what I went through just for a day, so that they can appreciate what they have. Nowadays kids hardly experience real life, they spend too much time on these  electronic gadgets. This leads to stress, even experts agree. There are some signs of stress that people should not ignore among the youth emanating from both loneliness and bad influence. An average American youth is lonely, and his or her only way out is short term sensations like beer and drugs. Some would even go on to crime just to feel acceptable. There are lot of gangs that are ready to take those who are falling from the harsh and unforgiving social band wagon. This is a culture that breeds and worship greatness. One has to be a football star, baseball star, basket ball star or even movie star. My Pastor put it well this weekend when he said that  almost every one cannot fail to see somebody being honored in our televisions. To make matters worse we are allowing our kids to be influenced by people that we do not even know. Foul language, and violence is what we reap at the end of the day.