Whatever happened to the Children of the Woodstock Nation?

There was a time, many years ago, when there were dreams of a more peaceful, charitable world.
Those who had these hopes, dreams and desires are the same ones who are presently arguing whether it is better to put an armed officer in every school and, one has to assume, on every street corner to keep ourselves safe or whether we should just arm everyone and hope for the best.
We had the ability to make our own reality better than the one we presently have, one that we wanted. What happened? Why?