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ATHENS, Ala. (WAAY) - A man who told police he just wanted to shoot someone is behind bars.
Athens police say Noah McGlawn of Whiteville, Tennessee turned himself in after shooting a motorcyclist Monday afternoon.
According to investigators, McGlawn shot Brandon Matlock as he drove along Highway 72 East, near Mooresville Road, around 2:30PM.
Matlock was hit in the arm and back. He's in stable condition at Huntsville Hospital.
McGlawn told police he was mad at his father and wanted to shoot someone. After driving around all day, he took aim at the motorcyclist.
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I read this story and it dovetails with something I have been thinking about for a while. I guess it really started hitting home with the Aurora shootings, but honestly, it's been lurking in my mind for many years. Columbine might be a better point of origin, but at some point I realized, we have a complete breakdown of society happening. We're now raising a third generation of absolute self-absorbed pinheads with no ethics or morals, and no regard for human life. They are never given parental guidance, sheltered from spiritual guidance, and raised in front of a television with a box of Fruit Loops. No one is there to teach them morals and ethics, because the parents were never taught themselves, and in some cases, even the grandparents weren't taught.
We have all the anti-religious zealots running around here spouting their hate for religion and moral values, but here is a classic example of the sort of society that mindset yields. This fuckwit got mad at his father and wanted to shoot someone, so he did. That's the kind of fucked up people you get in a world devoid of morals and ethics, where we all do as we please and abandon morality. When we have generation after generation of simpletons who don't see the need in spiritual foundation, or instilling ethics and decency in their children. When everything we see on television is geared around self-gratification, disrespecting others, or the sick obsession with watching people in their real-time personal drama they call a life.
At some point we have to start teaching children how to behave again. But where does this start when even the parents don't understand basic concepts of morality? It's not as if disengaged, disassociated self-absorbed moronic pricks are suddenly going to have some epiphany, and discover what they've missed all their life. I don't know how the process begins, maybe someday society will glum-on to 'moral health' like they have nutrition, and it'll become a 'fad' to raise your kids with some sense of right and wrong again? Maybe the Kardashians, Osbornes, Octomoms, and Gottis, will give way to families who instill actual character and ethics in their children, and the struggles they face daily, trying to uphold those values? Maybe we'll realize, it's tough to live by a higher moral standard, but worth it in the long run? Like Spin Class!
ATHENS, Ala. (WAAY) - A man who told police he just wanted to shoot someone is behind bars.
Athens police say Noah McGlawn of Whiteville, Tennessee turned himself in after shooting a motorcyclist Monday afternoon.
According to investigators, McGlawn shot Brandon Matlock as he drove along Highway 72 East, near Mooresville Road, around 2:30PM.
Matlock was hit in the arm and back. He's in stable condition at Huntsville Hospital.
McGlawn told police he was mad at his father and wanted to shoot someone. After driving around all day, he took aim at the motorcyclist.
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I read this story and it dovetails with something I have been thinking about for a while. I guess it really started hitting home with the Aurora shootings, but honestly, it's been lurking in my mind for many years. Columbine might be a better point of origin, but at some point I realized, we have a complete breakdown of society happening. We're now raising a third generation of absolute self-absorbed pinheads with no ethics or morals, and no regard for human life. They are never given parental guidance, sheltered from spiritual guidance, and raised in front of a television with a box of Fruit Loops. No one is there to teach them morals and ethics, because the parents were never taught themselves, and in some cases, even the grandparents weren't taught.
We have all the anti-religious zealots running around here spouting their hate for religion and moral values, but here is a classic example of the sort of society that mindset yields. This fuckwit got mad at his father and wanted to shoot someone, so he did. That's the kind of fucked up people you get in a world devoid of morals and ethics, where we all do as we please and abandon morality. When we have generation after generation of simpletons who don't see the need in spiritual foundation, or instilling ethics and decency in their children. When everything we see on television is geared around self-gratification, disrespecting others, or the sick obsession with watching people in their real-time personal drama they call a life.
At some point we have to start teaching children how to behave again. But where does this start when even the parents don't understand basic concepts of morality? It's not as if disengaged, disassociated self-absorbed moronic pricks are suddenly going to have some epiphany, and discover what they've missed all their life. I don't know how the process begins, maybe someday society will glum-on to 'moral health' like they have nutrition, and it'll become a 'fad' to raise your kids with some sense of right and wrong again? Maybe the Kardashians, Osbornes, Octomoms, and Gottis, will give way to families who instill actual character and ethics in their children, and the struggles they face daily, trying to uphold those values? Maybe we'll realize, it's tough to live by a higher moral standard, but worth it in the long run? Like Spin Class!
