Dana Mathewson

David French "gets it." He was never really on my radar screen, but I think he is now. He has two articles on NRO as I look at the site, and this one is very good indeed.

He says "Don't look to Washington to solve the problem." And he's certainly right about that! There are some interesting ideas in this article.

David Dickinson has this to say: And there's this case of a grandmother in Washington state who foiled a potential attack by her own grandchild.
Everett student’s journal: ‘I’m learning from past shooters’ | HeraldNet.com

And Dana rreplies:

The David French article indicates that each shooting makes the next one easier. This article proves it.

From Tim:

You know, there was a guy named Erostratus who burned down the temple of Artemus in the 4th century B.C. solely because he wanted to be famous. The temple had been one of the Seven Wonders fo the World. Artemus set the stage for these modern shootings, which is to a good degree celebrity driven; kids these days want to be famous so badly they are ready to commit mass murder (and why not, if you are told you crawled from the slime and are nothing but a mass of involuntary responses) to achieve that end. It should not surprise anyone that in the era of Facebook and Twitter and other social media (where everyone's a star) we have people willing to do this sort of thing. Go out with a blaze of glory! This was the attitude of the sixties hippies, who wanted to live hard and die young.

And in an era where God is dismissed as a children's fable or worse, where Jesus is a mental illness, one should not be surprised that the young are willing to kill large numbers of people; what does it matter? This is where John Lennon's "imagine there's no Heaven" has led us.

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