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RE: Gun Violence Is NOT A Mental Health Issue It's A Culture Issue
I would wager that if you looked at when we took prayer out of school and started our moral decline in the USA. You would find that not long after that we started seeing the effects like these types of shootings. I agree that it a cultural issue. These shooters just excel at being culturally and morally bankrupt.
That was when we first started hearing rumblings, but it was around the mid '90's (when Christianity not only lost its official status but started to become unpopular) that things really got bad.
there are all manner of other factors at play (China, for instance, is an Atheist country and while they've got fifty-five squillion problems gun violence is not one of them unless you count the amount of it that happens at the hands of the PLA), but the loss of morality altogether, which has its roots in the loss of the God, the loss of the entire Judeo-Christian cultural core, is at the root of America's problems right now.
I agree, morals with no real basis other than "just because we said so" aren't really points of strength.
"just because" isn't how morals work. Taking from someone like Kant or Lysander Spooner on natural laws, morals are derived from the logical application of first principle of self ownership. We do not need religion, we need logic.