"What has so changed in society that such anger and violent rage are becoming so common place?"
S Sgt. W Wilkinson was a self-described pacifist who was a hospital orderly until he volunteered for the Tiger Brigade in Vietnam. He and members of his unit tortured prisoners, raped civilian women, mutilated their bodies, and killed anywhere from nine to well over one hundred unarmed civilians, among other acts.
Rank and file Wermacht and Soviet soldiers who, prior to being inducted never entertained a violent thought, shot and killed thousands of unarmed women and children after their culture told them it fine and dandy to do so.
"These people did not just wake up one day having a bad hair day...." 
I'm not blinded by the gun mentality at all, nor am I blinded by defending the gun-mentality either.
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