It's so sad when this kind of thing happens, what a waste of life. I appreciate what folks are saying about how we seem, as a society, to be becoming scarily numb and accepting of these events. Hard to know what to do though - it's just a fact that people can get used to almost anything. I guess making firearms a whole lot harder to get hold of would help.

We've seen this phenomenon in recent years several times - not just in the States but in the UK, Japan and Germany too that I can recall and maybe other places. Often disaffected kids, or a disgruntled ex-employee coming back for revenge....I was just wondering if it's a relatively new thing arising out of the stresses of modern society or have there always people who do this, but in the past the media coverage wasn't there, or maybe they couldn't do so much damage back then for lack of the kind of weaponry now available? I don't know the answer, just wondering.

Gerry


Last edited by Gerry Manning; 04/17/07 07:54 PM.