> Too often in incidents like this, we react out of emotion rather then fact. One thing is certain, newspaper accounts are hastily done "shoot from the hip" hatchet jobs meant to do just that - bring out an emotional response... ...Let the officials do a proper investigation and bring the offender to justice - whatever that may be - and then express our opinions about what comprises justice.
Well stated, JMG.
Whenever an incident like this happens, people tend to focus on the particular aspect of it that fits their own beliefs. "It must be due to moral decay!" (whatever that is) "It was because of an unlocked gun!" The reality is never that simple. Every accident/incident has a chain of events that led up to it. In this particular case, something compelled a young man to do a heinous act. We don't know why. Somehow he was able to obtain a deadly weapon. We don't know how. Apparently nobody recognized he was a threat to his schoolmate. We don't know why. And nobody was able to stop him from shooting his classmate. We don't know why that was, either. It's very easy to come up with pat answers to these questions, as the pro-gun and anti-gun lobbies reliably do. But pat answers seldom identify root causes, let alone address them.
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