School Shootings — The Politically
Incorrect Answer
 Just
looking at a broad overview of school shootings it looks
like about 100 people have been killed and 141 wounded
in school shootings in America since February of 1996,
though such violence was present on American campuses
even earlier. Some of those who died were the shooters,
and if those they killed before getting onto school
property are included the number would be slightly higher.
Most were teenagers, but one shooter and his victim
were both six.
What would cause a girl, age 17, to
kill two men, wound eight kids and a police officer
by firing into an elementary school in San Diego back
in January, 1979? Does this kind of thing indicate insanity,
or does it portray an ignored, yet sinister influence?
When it was all over she simply shrugged her shoulders
and said, “I don’t like Mondays.”
How does a normal person respond to that kind of answer?
Unfortunately, the so-called experts do not actually
respond, but rather search for some cause; often one
that is beyond the responsibility and understanding
of the shooter.
Most “experts” are looking
for a person, a group, an ideology or an entity of just
about any kind to blame no matter how illogical or just
plain stupid the accusation might be. The idea is to
just find something or someone to pin it on. Many lists
of nominees for blame include conservatively-inclined
Christian institutions or people. It is very hard, if
not impossible, to find liberal, anti-God groups and
ideologies anywhere on a list of those who might be
to blame.
On 20 April, 1999, almost exactly eight
years ago, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold killed twelve
students, one teacher and wounded 23 others before killing
themselves at Columbine High School. They were 18 and
17 respectively, and were part of what they called the
“Trench-coat Mafia”. They had spent a year
planning the assault. Most of us can remember the out-cry
over that one. One of the first to be assigned blame
was the National Rife Association followed by anybody
who believes the United States Constitution allows law-abiding
citizens to keep and bear arms.
After reading and hearing so much of
the baloney being put out by the social engineers I
finally responded to an article written by a reporter
for Fox News, Barbara Fishkin. She blamed Charlton Heston,
the NRA and guns. I had gotten a craw full of this hogwash
at about that point and wrote her a letter. The following
is a portion of it.
...the greater question has to do
with why did this happen...Take a kid and bring him
up in a home where dad is married to his job and mom-with-a-hyphenated-name
is too busy with her career to wipe noses, change
diapers, kiss scrapes on the elbow and do all those
other things moms could do if they had their priorities
in proper order. Teach that kid from K-4 that he is
an accident, that his roots go back to some slime-pit
somewhere when his ancestors crawled onto dry land,
that there is no God and that ultimately there is
no accountability.
Tell him there is probably no such
place as heaven and there certainly is no such place
as hell. Tell him he has no soul, that when he dies
he is like a dog — dead and that is it. Combine
that with lectures on the brilliance of mankind and
his ability to solve all problems with politics, social
engineering and money from the federal government.
Add it all up and you have a kid set up for disappointment
with a big “D”. Why? Because if he believes
he is an accident, that he did evolve from a lower
life form, that there is no loving God who can and
will give meaning and hope to all human life that
kid will simply have nothing for which to live. And
especially so if he sees himself as a victim of some
group of “elite” competitors. He will
probably hate life and simply see it as fleeting,
shallow and of no real consequence. When he gets old
enough to see that government, money and the authors
of what is politically and socially correct have all
failed (as seen in Littleton) he could very well band
with others of like mind and together revert to things
which give them “the great thrill of life”
— killing people. Especially the enemy whom
they blame for their every misfortune…
No, lady! It is not Heston, the NRA
or guns. Guns were much easier to get when I was a
kid...and you know, this kind of thing never happened
that I can remember. If you are so determined to blame
somebody then put the blame where it belongs —
a society which has dismissed God from its classrooms,
homes, courts, legislature and the White House.
I would recommend some intellectual
honesty, ma’am. This country has changed. The
environment in which our kids are raised is rotten.
And the horrible truth of the matter is if something
is known to work toward ending such putrefaction of
American society it is avoided with extreme diligence
if it has anything to do with godly morals, the Ten
Commandments, prayer, the Bible, etc.
The fact is the humanists have had
their day. They have been in charge. They have set
the agenda. And they have failed miserably!!! Is it
not possible that the only real difference between
the Trench-coat Mafia and the social modernists is
that the T/M used guns and bombs to destroy 13 people
along with themselves, and the humanists are using
fallible doctrine and godless philosophy to set up
a breeding environment for such killers and would
thus destroy an entire nation?
Instead of rationally examining the
situation, trying to reverse course in this nation
and going back to that which works best, the powers-that-be
continue their head-long plunge into this morass of
blood, gore and abject amorality, ever intent on forcing
upon our people a jaded, miserable, broken-down system
which has proven time after time to be a failure.
The humanists have failed! Admit it and get on with
godly change!
I never received a response from her.
The social engineers decry Christian
values that condemn ungodly lifestyles and attitudes,
but they wholly support “freedom of expression”
as seen on prime-time TV programs that promote homosexuality,
music that emphasizes and even glorifies rape, sodomy
and the general degradation of women and girls. The
gutter-filth heard in so-called rap “music”
is excused by saying “...it’s a cultural
thing”. This kind of logic is more than enough
to make a normal person vomit, but record producers
are churning it out as fast as they can, and parents
of teens are letting it into their homes without so
much as a blink.
Violent video games have taken the
place of books. Few families have meals together and
talk. Many kids eat in front of a TV even if their parents
are home at the time of the evening meal. Boys like
to dress like street thugs with their pants falling
off their backsides and girls go to proms showing more
skin than a common street walker. (I refer you to the
incident several days ago at a New Orleans high school
prom).
Movies are filled with nudity, sex
acts (heterosexual, homosexual and lesbian) and horror
scenes emphasizing bondage and torture with associated
shrieks and screams. Painful death is the goal, horror
is the means and the big screen is the method of delivery.
Bloody massacres and other kinds of evil are shown in
detail with the camera occasionally interrupting the
carnage only to focus on the dead-pan expression of
the killer. All of this, and much more, happens hundreds
of thousands of times every day in our country and it
has the complete support of the educational, corporate
and political powers-that-be.
Then when something like Columbine
or VA Tech happens our society’s delicate sensitivities
are offended and even shocked. Everybody who is somebody
quickly finds a microphone and camera and appears on
international TV asking, “How could this have
happened?” This is where our national hypocrisy
comes into full view because no body really wants to
be told the truth as to why these things happen. And
the reason no body wants to be told the truth is that
the answer has to do with our national rejection of
God’s sovereignty, biblical authority and the
Christian worldview.
Just about any old answer will do for
the fools who stick their heads in the sand. They want
some “expert” to tell them the problem is
one of social environment, personality disorders and
congressional shortcomings (political talk for not spending
enough money on certain issues), and that “...we
are working on it right now…” so they can
quickly go back to their movies, music and whatever
else it is they like to do while their kids, our country
and the world speeds toward wrath, judgment and destruction.
They can be told anything as long as the answer does
not include the words God, Bible repentance or righteousness.
Their secular spirits are terribly offended by the use
of such words. And, the implication that our nation
needs to humbly repent of our godlessness is quite simply
too outrageous and reeks of rightwing, religious bigotry
that must be destroyed at all costs. Call it anything,
they say, but do not make this a spiritual matter!
People do not live in a vacuum —
they will live according to what they have been taught
and what has been modeled before them. Put another way,
a society’s world view is directly connected to
whatever is the standard from which its belief system
is established. If a person, family, community or nation
exchanges the biblical worldview for that which comes
from Madison Ave., Hollywood and Darwinism the only
possible result is degradation with carnage.
Further, the impact goes beyond the
actions of the shooter and can warp the attitude of
the victims. By that I mean the victims can actually
sympathize with the shooter. I understand a group of
VA Tech students has said they do not hold Cho’s
murdering 32 people against him because he was first
and foremost a human being, and that his one bad act
should not taint his lifelong reputation. As of print
time I could not verify this, but this kind of thinking
is not beyond belief. Most people in criminal justice
are familiar with the Stockholm Syndrome whereby hostages
identify with their captors. It is also associated with
battered wives, rape victims, etc. It comes from the
bank robbery/hostage situation in Stockholm that happened
in 1973 where the victims defended the criminals after
they were freed.
This kind of warped thinking is emphasized
and magnified in our post-modern society where no action
can really be labeled as wrong; everything is to be
seen as being relative. You see, you become judgmental
when you call something wrong, or, God forbid, sin,
and everybody knows you can’t pass judgment on
other people no matter what they do. This comes from
the idea there is no such thing as absolutes. Kids learn
today that nothing is absolutely right or wrong because
every action of every person is relative to the actions
of other people, and that in turn to successive and
constantly changing standards of conduct. Sounds like
unadulterated idiocy, doesn’t it? It is, but we
might be surprised at the way this psycho-garbage is
being spoon-fed to our kids.
So, why did Cho massacre 32 people?
It was not because he had been picked on. If that were
the reason most people would be mass murderers and serial
criminals. The simplified answer is he chose to act
on his anger in the same way certain movies and music
portray reaction to anger — just kill ‘em.
And his choice to murder 32 innocent people was easily
reached because he had been taught in the public school
system that we are all animals anyway, that we all have
a single slime-ball as an ancestor, and we are not much
different from chimpanzees. He probably had been taught
there is no life-after-death and that this heaven/hell
thing is just the musings and fantasies of weaklings
who need religion, the opiate of ignorant and common
people. Reminds me of what a man named Stalin did and
why he did it.
Did he have a mental illness? Perhaps,
but such an illness does not excuse murder. That is,
he still made a choice. Pedophiles are said to be ill,
yet they do not do their wicked deeds in the presence
of adults which indicates they understand what they
are doing and simply make choices as to when is the
best time to attack innocent children. In most cases
the word “evil” is more accurate than “ill”.
Dr. Helen Smith, a forensic psychologist
in Knoxville, TN, says the blame should not be on violent
TV, songs from rock groups, etc. She says violent acts
result “…from the accumulation of many distorted
thoughts and stressors that finally send a child over
the edge. In short it is the way he or she processes
what they see, hear and experience…” They
see violence as, “the best mode of action”(crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/weird/kids1/say_say5html).
No joke! But, that still does not address the root of
the problem. What has happened in the last 50 years
to change the way a teenager thinks? What is the standard
by which kids process what they see, etc.? Where did
they learn that violence is sometimes the best way to
handle things? Do you think maybe rap music, horror
movies and gutter-level moral standards have anything
to do with it? Do you think a nation’s mostly
godless entertainment industry plays a role?
Massacres have always been a part of human history,
but what is happening in our country seems to be quite
different. These things are not happening because of
religious hatred (as was the case in Beslan in 2004
when Moslems slaughtered 186 children in that school
siege) or even political disagreements. Columbine and
VA Tech betray something more ominous because they result
from a society that has declared its independence from
God. Nothing — absolutely nothing — robs
the human heart of civility and compassion and smashes
the moral compass of the human conscience like alienation
from God. Especially the self-imposed kind.
That we are living in the shadow of
Revelation 6 is without question in my opinion. Such
massacres are simply the beginning of tribulation birth
pangs which, I believe, will become more frequent and
more intense. For non-Christians this is a horrible
scenario. For Christians it is exciting and fills us
with great anticipation. DLM |
