The Real Issue Of Youth Violence Many people are quick to make accusations why the children of this age are doomed. Recently, with the high school shootings, people are pointing figures to determine what has caused the recent outbreak of "youth violence." It doesn't seem like that youth violence has happened to this extent at any age throughout the history of the United States. Why is there this increase in violence? People are looking at what has been the biggest change in the United States in the past fifty years. Most people would agree that the answer is technology. If technology has been the greatest change in the