Today’s Culture of Violence

I guess you can say that today’s culture had changed so much that the upcoming generation has become a generation of violence.
There’s nothing but reckless abandon regarding human life in the last few years.  The recent set of massacres has reignited a debate on the issues of gun control.  My question is a rather simple one: how many more lives have to be lost before Congress grows a set of balls and deal with the issue of guns in our society without fear of alienating the NRA (National Rifle Association).   Those monkeys need to understand that we aren’t messing with the second amendment but at the same time we can’t let certain types of guns and ammunition get into civilian hands.
Hearing a guy take an assault rifle into a bar in Alabama and killing seventeen people is one thing but hearing what went down in Aurora, Colorado at the premiere of the new Batman movie “The Dark Knight Rises” sickened me.  It’s the second rampage of its kind in about a week’s time and something has to be done.
On the home front, all of us needs to take responsibility for what today’s children are exposed to these days.  We’ve become so desensitized to violence and sex that it’s second nature to let our kids see material that our generation wouldn’t have dared to lay our eyes on growing up; or rather, out parents wouldn’t let us see and rightly so.  Children are seeing that the only way to deal with problems that may arise is through violence first and that’s not right. 
We live in a world today that’s filled with more violence than I can ever remember.  The one thing I don’t like about it is that people tend to meet violence with more violence.  Now more than ever we need to support one another and do whatever it takes to get these hellish weapons off the streets for good.  As I said earlier in this post: how many more lives have to be lost before someone somewhere, in the local, state or federal level, gets the guts to tackle the issue with guns in our world.  I understand the need to protect ourselves but too many times this year we all had to hear about or see through the news how innocent people have been killed by someone who acts in a violent matter first before thinking things out.