From shootings to stabbings, Black Friday turns violent as shoppers obsess over discount deals. This year many retailers started their Black Friday deals on Thanksgiving Day, making people more anxious than ever. Was this a good idea or just another threat to people's safety?

Black Friday is the biggest shopping holiday in America. With huge discounts on electronics, toys and much more. It's purpose is to entice shoppers to spend money on gifts and home goods that they would normally not be able to splurge on. Unfortunately, competition and getting to your favorite things first can turn violent. We have heard in recent years of people trembling over each other, arguments and even fights. But this doesn't stop retailers from opening their stores early every year for Black Friday, due to the fact that they make the most money during the shopping craze. Nothing should be worth the chaos that this holiday shopping tradition has brought along.

The Associated Press reports "a driver outside of Kohl's in Romeoville, Illonois, was shot by police". The shopper was said to have dragged a police officer in the parking lot of the store after a shoplifting attempt. Two suspects ran out of the store with a cart full of goods and then tried to escape in a getaway car waiting for them. Through a back and forth struggle the officer was caught on the car door of the vehicle as the driver still road off. That's when the second officer was forced to shoot several gunshots finally striking the driver on his shoulder. This was all by 10:00 p.m. on the night of Thanksgiving.

In Virginia, two men were arrested after a stabbing at a Walmart store. Ronnie Sharp, 61, threated Christopher Jackson, 35, with a rifle and then sliced him in the arm with a knife over a parking spot. Jackson was taken to the hospital to be treated and later also charged with disorderedly conduct and assault and battery. All over a parking spot, which neither of them got, meaning that they never actually got inside the store...first.

These are just two reports out of the various fights, pepper spraying and shootings that went on last night thanks to the early Black Friday start on Thanksgiving. We're loosing cite of things as a country here, and that is the saddest part out of this entire situation. Instead of sitting at home having a nice and calm Thanksgiving dinner with our loved ones, we go out to stumble over each other in an attempt to fulfill the misguided Christmas gift frenzy, another lost holiday. America, let's please get our dignity back and not kill each other over things like this.

Do you think Black Friday should be cancelled? Should it at least be banned from beginning on Thanksgiving? Watch the video below of a Black Friday incident where officers are force to intervene at a Wal-Mart.