Columbia MO is my hometown, and we never used to have much trouble. Now shootings are common, and it is almost always the under 21 crowd. Kids don't fight with fists anymore. Go straight to guns. Sad. I personally think a significant contribution to this fatalist attitude is Climate Change indoctrination they have received in school since kindergarten. They have been told they are doomed because of things their grandparents did, like industrialize. So they think they are walking dead, the planet will snuff everything out by the time they are 30, so why go to school? Why bust your ass working a job? Crime is a shortcut to the good life, so you might as well go all in and get yours while you can.
I say this because my nephew is 10 and afraid the world is about to end because his teachers told him so. Unreal.