Already the horror of the brutal killing of twelve students and one teacher at Columbine High School in Colorado fades from our minds. Memories fade of the frantic voice of a young girl begging for her life, and of another young girl, a Christian, witnessing a good confession that she belonged to her Savior and then being killed. Parents send their children to school with fear.
Teenagers come to school apprehensive.
Polls are taken asking students whether they feel safe and whether the security systems now being put in place are adequate. The human mind rejects such events as meaningless and unrelated. So politicians and psychologists and newscasters and commentators try to furnish the American people with some type of plausible explanation. Governors are quoted as saying that a virus is loose on our culture. Some speak of risk factors, of coming from a family where there is a known history of criminal violence or abuse.