Gunning down people is really a symptom of a value system gone amuck. We are even witnessing such behavior among our elders on the international scene. Life has become an expendable commodity that to some measure reflects a humane victim. The proliferation of weaponry, a media obsessed with violence, sex and triviality, an advanced technology displacing personal worth, and a lack of individual accountability are some root causes for so much enmity in our world. Many of us are fed up, and have had enough of educated computer monsters, scholarly cowards, and the lot of liars, cheats and demonized misfits who plague our communities.
Students killing students do so because they reject the values of a humane social order.
Also, not all families provide an ideal environment, whether rich or poor. Nor are all people free from ethnic, racial and religious bias. And let us include some well-meaning families who delude themselves by believing that their children can do no wrong. Meanwhile, the nightmare of anti-social behavior will continue unless we act with resolve to stop it. Our nation is blessed with individual freedoms but when freedom becomes a license to hurt people, the result can be a society inviting self-destruction.