Written before midnight, 1/1/2023

It is becoming increasingly harder not to shout out words of harsh criticism as to the general state and condition of society all over the USA.

Baltimore, Maryland has it's first homicide of the year, just after 3 hours into, after 3am, a gift of almost spring season weather, the atmosphere is destroyed. A 17 year old female has life taken away in a hail of bullets. As though a microcosm or symbol of the condition.

In different places in the US over the past several weeks, news stories have been going nonstop about horror fatalities, such as parents killing their children, or one spouse turns on the other, and an escalation of model or model like featured females being attacked in very grizzly manners.

Where is this coming from, and why is it upon the US right now?

There are a few aspects of the condition, which are occurrences, and if they are not causes so it be, however, which might explain.
It should not cost $20 to get 20 ounces of cooking oil.
This is a reflection of a dimension of the economy which is on a scale of 1 to 10, ten being highest, maybe almost a 1.
There is much corn in the USA, there is no excuse for corn oil to be more than a month's telephone bill.
Market, supply, demand dynamics show no reason for this, conversationally speaking; something else has gone wrong. Something dark and creepy.

The human trafficking has to stop.
The huddle of a few lawmakers with pervert messages on their breathe crafting laws to dupe the economy under color of it's going to help it, has to stop.

When individuals do not have the money to take a few dollars, such as $5 or $10, go to a respectable entertainment venue, such as a skating rink, have a slice of pizza, get fresh air, and enjoy life that is expected to be embedded in the American Dream, instead have to spend several weekends of the money to that to buy a basic necessity such as a bottle of corn oil, never mind the standard meat, potatoes, rice and pasta, it can stat to become depressing.

When the doldrums persist, plus the stay at home mandates during COVID-19, (you must work from home, you must, no other alternative, and no other job options open otherwise except to a few), persons start to become very depressed, and entire communities and neighborhoods start the same, auras of each individuals overlap and form up an atmosphere, that does not promote happiness. The result can be, people start doing things the reverse of the ways of peace.

So, the hurry up and get conditions in better shape is the calling right through here. In Washington DC, Capitol Hill, discomforts with military, FOMC meetings, real estate, high mortgage rates, cost of food, cost of medical care, get guns and ghost guns off the streets, stop the state to state trafficking of the stupid little weapons with notorious tinted windows and more out of state tags than in state tags appearing in cities ridden by crime, and stop the drug trafficking while at it, all those areas need improvement.

A list of all horror events over the last two months, and all the corresponding rants in reaction, will not be compiled here.

Lastly and perhaps moreover, a message or hint of sorts, to seriously consider is, there is a certain amount of time to pull up, an upswing from downturns, before permanent damage is done; there are numerous crimes and devastating events going on around the Country that are not quite severe enough in terms of total number of casualties per event to make the radar of a huge events, but they are just below that threshold, and there have been a bunch of them, making the totality a situation which needs a solution.

The brief version, I like this, 

Written and published night EST October 30, 2022
According to multiple news reports, coinciding with the day of Halloween, about and at least 150 individuals perished perhaps the result of literally being crushed by a dense crowd packed into a relatively small area.
Reports say police presence in the time frame the incident unfolded was minimal.

It may be a good sign, in that crime may be minimal.
However, there are other locales in the world that have the knowledge and experience, such as the governing bodies and police, that once there is a crowd over a certain number of persons in a certain size space, police presence is to occur, end of discussion.
The basic reason, there are just too many possibilities of what could go wrong, and if something of an anomaly does happen, the extent of ramifications when there are huge amounts of persons.
An example number may be about 2000 persons active in one locale, shopping, celebrating, concerts, or just a night on the town.
Seoul last Saturday night is said to have about 100,000 in roughly one area.
The amount could be fine in an isolated scenario of nothing unusual occurs, as 100,000 can be seated in some sports stadiums. But in the stadium they are controlled and seated ( unless an emergency).
Floods

Media here in the US cannot help but to note, and be concerned about the escalating ongoing situation in Ukraine; Russia invaded and evidently within the past few hours, Belarus may have actually followed through on announcements about sending troops to Ukraine, for purposes in the same vein of Russia said back in the beginning of it, an augment sort of, to Russian troops, may be the result.

Then of course is the question, why don't you pay attention to what's going on in the US, or frankly, mind your business, that's their war over there in the Rus, and yours is minimizing mass shooting going on in your country.

The situation of the frequency of mass shootings on a national level has been waxing and waning over the past few years, here in the US.
A few days ago, a teenager about 15 was reported to have gone on a sort of rampage, leaving 3 middle aged females fatalities, another teenager close to him in age, and a police officer fatalities, in the Raleigh, North Carolina area.
This morning, are reports of dismembered bikers in Oklahoma.
Reports also of about 30 or so shot due to mass shootings over the weekend.

Two separate wars it may appear. (One, the tensions, in Ukraine, the war to make it desist, and the war on mass shootings, to reach hopefully significant mitigation, and an abatement.)

On the contrary, even if by narrow margin. This isn't an opportunity to say au contraire, this is the hit square on in the face in the clear, that this is the reality.

The example seen and mental imagery teenagers have in their minds, sometimes vulnerable minds, when inundated by violence, regardless of where the violence takes place, affects them, and the round and around sequence goes nonstop. One teenager sees or hears of the violence, then carries out the same with adjustments to the social construct, which is then seen by other teenagers, who do the same, and it keeps going. Every day, since the Russians invaded Ukraine, everyone in the US hears about violence. 

Almost every day, it is world news that there is violence or mass shooting here in the US.

Which came first? It may not matter all that much. Both need to stop.

Afterword

-It is known that mass shootings and violence in towns is going on in other regions of the world, Central America and drug gang wars, among these.

-The US also spends effort to support the Ukraine, along with economic spending. What if, more teenagers were being financed (a shift in allocation) to receive more schooling such as job training, at say 5:30 in the afternoon after school hours?, which is about the time the mass shooting in Raleigh a few days ago got started. Maybe the available time windows that leave voids and free time that wind up being spent in misguided or lack of guided ways, would not be as abundant, and the focus of teenagers would be in a different place.

-Considering all the above, maybe other reasons, and maybe for reasons unknown and never will be known, there may not be a singular, clearly defined 'motive' the teenage suspect had, that drove him to carry out the Raleigh, NC mass shooting that occurred several days ago. [Mind frame, mood, emotions, compulsion to reenact, through energies that he cannot still describe, brainwashed, and many other 'etiological', 'pathopsychological' factors, may hit on some of the explanations.]