It’s 1999, and kids are finishing up their classes at Columbine High School. And in that quiet building in a beautiful location in Colorado, two students, armed with assault rifles, opened fire on their classmates. Fifteen classmates killed. Twenty-one others were injured. Thousands of lives destroyed.
It’s 2006, on a sunny day in rural Pennsylvania. And in a quiet school building in the hamlet of Nickel Mines, an armed gunman held an entire classroom prisoner. He shot five young girls. And then he took the coward’s path and killed himself. Five young girls.
It’s 2007, on the campus of Virginia Tech. Students are attending classes, unaware that one of their own classmates has just committed two murders in a residence hall, and is now on his way to Norris Hall to inflict more damage. The worthless piece of filth killed 33 people, including himself.
I don’t even want to go through the other horrific and painful and stomach-turning moments in which our fellow humans were simply cut down, their lives ripped away by madmen and terrorists and cowards who showed no respect or acceptance of human life.
And last night, it happened again. A midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. 14 dead. 50 injured. The murderer taken into custody. Make no mistake. This punk had one mission and one mission in mind, especially when he was packing a bulletproof vest, assault rifles, a gas mask and enough ammunition to eliminate a battalion.
There’s going to be a lot of discussion about what role everything played – was the murderer mentally ill, did he want revenge against someone in the theater, was he believing he was the Joker and wanted to act out his fantasy, was this an act of domestic terrorism, a hundred questions and no answer will be sufficient.
No answer will be sufficient because no answer will bring back the lives of those 14 innocent people. No answer will heal the bullet and shrapnel wounds from the 50 movie patrons that were injured.
Just like no answer was sufficient enough to stop the murder of high school students in Colorado, college students at Virginia Tech, or the five Amish girls in a small Pennsylvania school.
No answer for why anyone would justify murdering the innocent.
No answer at all.
Chuck The Writer 
“a hundred questions and no answer will be sufficient”
agreed
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Chuck, I’m surprised that you didn’t mention the incident at UA back in the early 90’s…guy walked into one of the classrooms there with an assault rifle and held class & prof hostage…I’m pretty sure noone was killed, but there were definitly people shot and traumatized…
Right in our own backyard…
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But in this case,we do have the shooter alive and not cowardly killing himself so perhaps we can learn something,no matter how small compared to the depth of the tragedy,but some reason,at least for his waging such terror last night.
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Mass murder is a new phenomenon. Mass explicit violence in movies and video games (produced and funded by Democrats who oppose guns) is a new phenomenon. Is it necessary? Does it make people more comfortable with violence?
The more contact we have with negative influences, the more susceptible we are to them. The effects are worse with those who aren’t stable. These are things we should think about in light of these tragedies.
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Mass murder is not a new phenomenon…and thanks for not mentioning Judas Priest or Ozzy.
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