Since this shooter was 9 years old he has seen his country go to war with an enemy that isn't really defined and he watched his country go across the world and kill more children than anyone could ever really see as okay. What happens when those people come back home from all the killing? They are called heroes and patted on the back.
In the US kids are living in a day and age where killing by itself isn't wrong, as long as you have a reason. There is no longer that barrier that the rest of us have that says 'killing is bad'.
The militaristic imperialist ideology of the United States is not lost on the younger population.
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