BY ROBIN KARR-MORSE AND DAVID LAWRENCE Jr.
Though Americans have lived through more than 30 school shootings since Columbine in 1999, few have received extensive coverage in the media. Until the tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School, when most Americans thought about violence, they might well have turned to the frequent tragedies of Afghanistan and Iraq.
Understandably, the Newtown massacre of 6- and 7-year-olds generated almost unprecedented anxiety about threats to our own children. We cannot remember such a level of anxiety and fear in schools and communities and country. If we cannot protect our children — the most vulnerable among us — who are we?
The confluence of madmen and guns is disastrous. Following each of the major school shootings across the nation, the conversation about firearms and mental instability has filled the media to the point that strangers passing in a grocery store exchange informal remarks on gun control as if they had all just exited a lecture on the topic. Harder to talk about is the madmen side of the equation...
How and why can a baby develop into a vicious killer? And what can we do about it?
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