Is there a reason -- aside from the hardware politicians
and the mass media always love to put the blame
on -- that violent atrocities like this week's
bloody shopping mall shootings keep occurring?
In his most recent observations on history and
human nature, "Contemplating Mass Murder
in Omaha", novelist and essayist L. Neil
Smith suggests three -- one that almost every
gun owner in America has already thought about
(but with a twist that may take your breath away)
-- and two that don't seem have occurred to anybody
else before.
Like many another writer at the moment, Neil
discusses so-called "gun-free zones",
created by government and private enterprise alike,
which become easy places for lunatics to ply their
murderous trade. But he goes on to explore where
-- and from whom -- killers like Omaha's Robert
Hawkins get their homicidal ideas in the first
place.
He also identifies -- and interrogates -- the
proverbial 5000 pound elephant in the parlor,
and asks if killing sprees are truly spontaneous
acts, or represent something deeper and more sinister.
He even offers an idea about what we can do to
stop them.
Don't miss a single word at www.JPFO.org - Read
full article at http://www.jpfo.org/smith/smith-omaha.htm
P.S. Today, December 7, 2007, marks the 66th
anniversary of the "day that will live in
infamy", the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor,
and America's official entry into World War Two.
Wouldn't it be more fitting to spend the day remembering
and memorializing the 2500 individuals who died
on that day, than thinking about this latest insanity
in Omaha?
