Why do so many American men want to murder?

[Brenda]

When will so called conservative Americans care enough to stop giving anyone who wants one a weapon of mass destruction?

[bucolic_frolic]

1. Knowing the answers to those 2 questions doesn't mean anything will be done about it.

[dutch777]

2. Just a way to feel powerful and so much quicker and easier than working for real success.

The grit and determination of step by step bettering of one's condition has given way to the quick short cut wherever possible. I have a number of male relatives that took the easy answers and short cuts over their life whenever they were faced with a tough life choice and if they had worked harder and focused they would have been much better off. Now they in their 50s+ and seeing all the bad or short sighted choices they made and feel like life left them down. They won't get to murder but I can see that many make even worse choices and realize they missed their shot. The future does not look bright and maybe I'll just go out in a blaze of "glory". A lot of this is a male thing but it is fed by our sad sack culture and depleted morals.

[NoMoreRepugs]

3. NEVER.

[usonian]

4. Inner weakness.

BIG people lift others up.
SMALL people try to cut others down to their size.

Extremely short-sighted whether you believe in karma or a deity with a ledger book. ( Does anyone remember or actually observe "Thou Shall Not Kill?)

[CTyankee]

5. They know they can find guns and actualize their toxic anger. Unfortunately, their precious right to have guns is more

important than protecting the human lives they take.

[H2O Man]

6. Recommended

Modern human beings are as much savages as they were from the beginning of our relatively short journey. We just have nicer clothes. That is the nature of our physical machines that eat meat and shit. The evolution of modern humans is, of course, the evolution of our consciousness, by way of frontal cortex (making giving birth painfull). But the levels of consciousness are very different when it comes to fleshy robots and aware, thinking people.