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I'm putting this here rather than posting in the Bleachers, Cubs in 2018, or any other topic.

As a former school administrator, killings like yesterday sicken me, but I worked with kids a long time, so whenever something like this happens, it concerns me when the media and the left immediately jump on gun control as the solution.  It isn't.  We've had guns in this country since the beginning, and, yet, horrific scenes like this are relatively recent.  I agree that there is no reason for silencers, automatic weapons, extended magazine, and the like, but even that is putting a band aid on cancer.   

So what has happened in the lat 30 years or so?  Worldwide instant news that give these monsters their 15 minutes of fame?  Social media where hate and frustration can be spouted and spewed?  Computer games where we can kill  thousands who come back to life?  Drugs that alter moods and minds?  You rarely hear anyone trying to limit those.

We do have a disease in this country which is the devaluation of life.  It's old fashioned but when we no longer believe in a higher power whether that's God or an ethical standard and resist teaching that in our schools because we want young minds to search for themselves...it leads to disaster.