Youth Gun Violence..Evil or Apathy, What is the Cause?

My sixy something, baby boomer Mother asked me (a forty something Gen Xer) the other day what I thought was the issue with kids and gun violence, what was the cause?  She is genuinely concerned and the national news frightens her. Truth is, it frightens me too. Is it an overtaking of evil in our society as the right wingers like to howl about, God's judgement on abortion and gay right? Or could it be simply, bad parenting? (Which of course is an evil in itself).

I personally lean towards the answer being neglectful parenting and a glorification of violence, not just in our media these days, but also from religious leaders, christian politicians and average, hardworking citizens that call for gun freedom above all else and endless war and conquest. Also, we as conscientious citizens of this great country, doing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about the gun violence. No new laws getting passed, not even much conversation about it. What message are we sending the children of this nation? By this national sin of omission, we're telling them that they aren't worth the trouble of passing some laws that would keep assault weapons from being easily purchased and brought to schools for intended massacres. They can blame it on females getting abortions or LGBT partners getting legally hitched, but it's not any of those things. The problem is that good people are doing nothing. We are shouting loud and clear that the lives of school age children mean nothing. This in turn causes the children to devalue their lives and the lives of the people around them. I think it's a plausible answer. That mixed with parents that are more involved in their social (and social media) lives than being an involved parent.

Is evil overtaking the nation or is apathy? Every day that passes that we are not screaming for sane gun legislation, making phone calls, sending emails, protesting at our state capitols, doing everything that we can, then we perhaps are contributing to this deadly apathy epidemic.

Sane gun laws? It's a start. Giving a shit, it's a necessity.