The television news media is heels over head in the titillation business, too self-absorbed to perceive the serious story inherent in the high school tragedy. The real story has to do with the breakdown of morality in America and the consequences to our nation of that breakdown. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other. Adams makes the point that the only effective form of control in a nation of free people is self-control.
Constitutional laws are incapable of channeling and controlling human behavior.
The two boys who killed their classmates, by one count, broke 19 laws in the process of executing the massacre. The law is no match for evil. More laws dealing with the manufacture and sale of inanimate objects would not have stopped this tragedy, nor will they stop the next one. There are no mechanical fixes to moral problems. The only force capable of defeating this evil, aborting it at the very moment of conception, is a deeply ingrained moral sense of right and wrong.