(December 19, 2012 at 11:48 am)A Theist Wrote: All I can say is Wow!....unbelievable that a parent could do that to their own child...you know, maybe it's that mother who should be evaluated for a mental illness...no wonder that poor kid has issues....and no telling what that mother maybe creating in her own son...I have to agree Tib, it's despicable!...
I think the agent/mechanism (people/guns) argument goes right to the heart of the problem. Social pathology writ large.
Its about PEOPLE. Drug affected people, greedy people, mentally unstable people, people desensitized to violence and hate and yes, I'm going to say it - people who are abused as children because of the increasing dysfunction of family life.
Was there ever a time when America was in more need of an evaluation of its moral compass?
Child trauma victims need a strong and loving protective family environment to help them through events like these. Sadly, the perpetrator of this tragedy himself lacked such support.
