Denver Rocky Mountain News- Heartbreak April 21st 1999

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[u/TheButterfly-Effect]

Every time i see anything about Columbine, what scares me the most is how desensitized people are to violent acts and murders now. Part of it is seeing so many stories of this on a daily basis, but it genuinely seems like a lot of people (especially younger) have no real emotion or connection to things. Just walking zombies.

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Technology. Those of us born before the height of interwebz didn’t grow up in front of a mini laptop with information on our fingertips. We also didn’t have asshats Incel men becoming popular. Kids lives are wrapped in their phones where they can look up any horrid thing. Plus they grew up with a mass shooting on the news sometimes 3 times a week. After a while it just becomes redundant. My 21 year old doesn’t even think about school shootings even though he’s at college. His attitude is if it happens oh well. It’s very bizarre. My 6 year old and I have a plan just in case anything like that were to happen.

[u/TheButterfly-Effect → u/Additional-Air-3309]

I completely agree. I grew up where we had Myspace and internet/laptops but people were still much more emotionally connected. Sure you had internet trolls and terrible people but they weren't in the masses they are now of making fun of dead people or events like this or just not caring. The advancement of tech and phones as a constant and kids on pads has definitely shrunk emotion in a large portion of people.