Schools need to delve into the background of massacres to determine
motivation; banning weapons from school premises is useful, but unless
motivation is determined then future occurrence is possible. We can air our
prejudices, and jump to conclusions, but scientific data collection and
analysis is better. Michael Moore thought it was prevalence of guns, but
discovered Canada had as many guns available - yet people didn't kill each
other as often as in the USA. Why? He found they had a mutually-caring
society, and solved problems by talking about them, rather than the
cowboys-n-indians mentality of the US. The USA has too much emphasis on
individual achievement; if you are poor it is probably your own fault, not
how society is structured. I've often claimed, on this and other NGs, that
USA is a Plutocracy, ie. ruled by entrenched wealth; hence poverty is
endemic, and only radical change of economic emphasis will make a
difference. The US presidential primaries illustrated this point - talk of
"giving our government back to the people"; where "lobby groups" are to
blame. The matter needs investigating, especially with USA seeing itself as
world's policeman and mentor, defective though this may be (as theorised
here). Your idea of lack of "a common religion" etc, may be a factor, but
I'd claim economics is a basic cause. This reflects itself in deranged
youth, who might have their own warped "reasons", which are not necessarily
their real motivation.
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"The Enlightenment" wrote in message$L.2452@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
>
> "Don H" wrote in message
> $L.6334@news-server.bigpond.net.au...
> > Why did the Columbine massacre occur? I don't remember any
> Palestinian
> > terrorist being involved - only a couple of disgruntled local boys
> (not
> > girls, please note). Their motivation could be a feeling of
> inadequacy -
> > perhaps not being able to read and write properly?
>
> Klebold was Jewish though Harris was not. What conected them was a
> sense of being outsiders (I don't know too many kids that don't feel
> like that why did these guys went fruit loops is suprising). They
> believed that the world was rotten and evil becasue it produced things
> like the Holocaust. This is just another case of the Holohype causing
> death in the present. It's interesting that the media started to
> blame so called racists and Nazis and implying it was a perverted WASP
> crime untill they found out Klebold was Jewish. At that point they
> started to blame guns instead of the kids.
>
> Americans don't have a common religion, morality or sense of
> harmonious culture that underpins most of them anymore. The
> religion they do whoreship and that has the most rituals and that is
> protected by laws against Blasphemers and Heretics is the Holocaust.
>
> Many have argued the the religion of America has become the Holocaust.
>
> What is the Holocaust about? It is about moraly discrediting the
> very European and Christian based peoples that built the USA up untill
> its doors were opened to mass immigraion in 1965. That is some basis
> for morality isn't it. No wander people find it OK to go and kill
> all those evil people.
> ...........
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