What do people gain from killing others?

Everyday I hear of people being killed for senseless reasons. What does someone gain from killing another. I've hear of people being killed for minor things such as - being in the wrong neighborhood - bumping into someone - stepping on someones shoes - arguments and minor confrontations. These are not reasons to want to kill someone over. It's just sad how we treat each other. Personally it's fine for us to argue or even fight hand to hand if it must come to that. But it should not get to the point of taken someones life.

Lately there has been many mass shootings. I hate hearing things like this. Recently at the Garlic Festival where kids got killed. It's truly sad.

- I just want to hear your opinions.

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Th1nkF1rst · 70-79, M

Well... 🤔

When I was young kids ran around playing Cowboys & Indians or Cops & Robbers with realistic (looking & sounding) Toy Guns. We could say, "I'm gonna kill you!" & "I hope you die!" to friends and have fist fights, watch war movies, cowboy shows with gunfights, and run around with working Pellet & BB Guns killing birds or lizards, etc. Everyone's family had shotguns and rifles easily accessible and regular hardware stores sold guns & bullets & knives, etc.

Shootings, except for big time crime gangs or a rare domestic dispute were unheard of!!
Stuff like that happened in 3rd world countries and far far away.

Then ...

Somebody whined loudly and others got upset and worried, and pretend make-believe violence became "Bad" and all the kids had to hold their feelings in and stifle their differences or they'd be branded as unfit unhealthy and troublemakers by worried ninnys. Soon picking up an "L" shaped stick and saying "bang bang!" got 5 year olds expelled from schools and everyone got trophies, treated like robot idiots and praise for doing nothing special.

You can finish the rest......