Americans are drawn to events such as the lottery shooting like moths to a flame. We eat dinner watching scenes of Ott Brown's body being examined by the coroner or of airplanes bombarding Iraq. For some, the solution lies within the moral framework of our social contract with one another. For the most part, people become violent because there is no moral fiber on which to cling, no support system on which they can depend. Religion is one of the areas which is an important factor.
Religious people are very predictable and are much more likely to live up to their beliefs.
It is both physically and emotionally harder to murder someone with your bare hands or a knife than from 100 of yards away with a semi-automatic weapon. While experts argue about the social causes of violence and how to combat them, at its core violence is about not getting along with one another. Perhaps the key to solving our crime problem is first admitting we have a problem and coming to grips with our nation's historic legacy of solving situations at the point of a gun. In the past we have put up with this lawlessness, preferring instead to adapt to rising crime rates rather than make greater sacrifices to reduce them. Author and attorney Andrew Thomas says most people believe that the crime rate can be rolled back merely by hiring more police and constructing more jails.