Essay On Violent Culture

Violent Youth and Violent Culture What is the most important issue confronting and disturbing the American public these days? It is not the one about the controversial Obamacare, the urgency of global warming, the outcry for income inequity, or the nearly insolvent social security trust fund. And even the potential of terror attacks would not have a heavy put on our minds for long. As a matter of fact, the most serious problem facing our nation is youth violence, which has been almost becoming ubiquitous nationwide. Sadly speaking, when youth violence becomes a national epidemic, it would affect every single fiber of society, people’s lives, and the national future. Whom and what factors should be blamed for this horrendous problem? Very often, people would place the onus on “everything from the breakdown of families, to video games, from lax security to violent music” (Broughton). But, that is the platitude. If the issue is under further and deeper scrutiny, it would be clear that it is the violent culture, the …show more content…
When there are some emotionally stressful, psychologically depressed, and impulsive young people with their rationales figured out, dehumanized targets in mind, and lethal firearms handy, the killing spree or bloodshed are doomed to happen. In nature, we are a bunch of wolves. How could we expect our offspring to behave like lambs? Until we find some ways to fundamentally change our violent culture, the lingering trauma of youth violence would live with us in perpetuity. “It really comes down to our willingness to go long term”