- too many guns
- not enough guns (in the hands of the right people)
- the media, especially the non-stop, 24/7 media
- video games
- no God in the schools anymore (or anywhere anymore)
- hollywood
- side effects of psychotropic medications (this is the first time i've heard that one)
- unavailable or inaccessible mental health services
- bullying
- the deterioration of the family
i am not an expert in mass killings - don't ever plan to be. i don't have a bucket list but if i did, being an expert in mass killings is the last thing that would be on it.
that said, i have a few remarks of my own to make:
probably all of these reasons play a role - in different ways, in varying amounts, depending on the killer.
probably doing something about each one of these reasons would be helpful.
statistics show that despite these reasons, most of which are modern in nature, mass killings in the united states have not seen a dramatic increase over the course of our country's history. some increase - but not dramatic. i don't think most people know this. which is why they point to the modern reasons that they do.
and what all of these reasons have in common is the over-arching real reason for mass killings - and everything else that goes terribly wrong - the existence of evil.
and the existence of evil is, quite literally, the oldest reason in the book.
as long as human beings try to combat evil only in ways that make sense to them, be that removing guns or adding guns - or any of the rest of it - we will have this problem. and others.
because man (alone) cannot solve the problem of evil. he cannot.
there is only one who can.
there is only who, if we work in cooperation with him and surrender our intellects to his, can help us help ourselves.
help us save ourselves.
so, yeah. put God back in schools.
