Or one student may shoot another student over a silly misunderstanding or jealousy or fear of peer pressure. Suicides strike all ages. The elderly take their lives because they are afraid to live to the end, afraid of being mugged, afraid of losing their life's savings to insecure times or to the insatiable financial appetite of themedical profession. Joblessness often creates severe mental depression that some ex- workers cannot cope with. Many young people feel they can no longer tolerate a society that does not provide a future for them.
Fear controls the masses.
Fear of an unforgiving God. Fear of losing property. Fear of not enough to eat. Fear of increased taxes. Fear of an invasion by foreign enemies, a scare trumped up by politicians and the military to keep their war games going because they fear losing their lucrative profit or their control of foreign oil.