There is no doubt there is a mental health component to this.What baffles me is while I was growing up,we didn't have all these issues or names for bad behavior.You know ADDT etc.Did I learn in-spite of a fact of reading backwards??.There where no laws about parents or teachers use of capital punishment. We as kids where afraid of our parents and teachers because as apart of our up bringing there where times we saw or was involved in having the crap beat out of us.
That fear or well really respect went well into our early 20's.I with my two grown boys remember a time when my oldest wouldn't share a toy with his brother and I was just setting in the living room listening to go on while reading a newspaper.I put down my newspaper and looked him straight in the eye and he knew that I was ticked off.In his whole life I never raised a hand to him,but you would think I have tried to kill him from the amount of tears that was rolling down his face all the way through dinner and until he was told he had to go to bed early.

A mental health issue??. Well I guess there is some of that. I know kids don't come with a handbook. But I do think we are too soft on kids today and give them way too much. Then gaming that makes killing as apart of the game entertainment and it is more and more realistic as over the yrs these games high tech as gotten better. That is not tempered by good parenting either setting parameters for the kids.

I do know there where/are exceptional high intelligent people in my classes back when I was in school and none,that's a fact,none of them ended up like what we are seeing now.

Save the paddle and spare the child??. Naw.