As sad as people may feel when reading about this type of incident or seeing and experiencing it directly, most people feel that violence is an unfortunate reality in our lives over which we often have little control. In fact, it is true that no community escapes some level of violence. Violence is a part of all societies. When conflicts, tensions, pressures, and traumas are not controlled, they often result in violent outbursts. As random as such outbursts might seem, the actuality is that they are usually not random at all.
Violence is a part of society in that there are no societies without some level of violence.
However, violence is also a part of society in that society, in large part, defines what violence will look like. Within different cultures, the types of violent acts tend to be similar as people express themselves according to unwritten social norms. All societies have norms that determine how the community will function. It is through the norms, that the acceptability and type of violence are determined. This may seem strange since most people would say that violence is wrong.