Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold's connection with April 20 may go beyond its being Adolph Hitler's birthday. Also, marijuana is reported to contain 420 different chemicals. Drug use is highly correlated with delinquent behavior, and use among adolescents is on the rise. There are some clear-cut social and demographic trends that make it very probable that today's shocking stories of youthful violence will explode over the next decade. We are being beaten at our own game.
Kids go bad, kids lose touch with reality, kids blow each other's heads off.
When it comes to the awesome and inexplicable, no one comes up with more elaborate explanations than Christian zealots. For floods, crop failures, global warming, natural disasters, we are instructed of God's wrath, or the fault of people who have rejected God. We can feel superior and sympathetic, without actually addressing any of the problems behind the tragedy.