Now they are lucky if they live to a ripe old age without getting shot. Schools are installing metal detectors, not just high schools, but elementary schools as well. In some areas teachers take their lives in their hands merely by practicing their profession. They are afraid they will be shot by a student who is afraid he will fail, or for some other reason just as simple. 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.