Shooters weren't born as killers

Does it really serve the needs of people to allow those who promote racism and other hate ideologies freedom of expression?

Do our young and vulnerable really need to have access to terrorist websites such as those promoted by white supremacists and other right-wing terrorist hate groups?

These organizations contaminate the mind and educate followers to believe that destruction and death, to the hated, is the only way forward. Sadly, these hate ideologies often use the name of God to promote hatred as in the case of the Islamist terrorists and sadly by Christians during the time of slavery and even today. I take no issue with "southern pride" but too often it is simply camouflage to disguise racism, which at its core is nothing but hate.

If you educate and promote hate, you produce a society which reflects this. If you educate and promote kindness, you produce a society which reflects this. The shooters in our society weren't born killers; they were educated to be killers.

It would appear that all education is not equal when the standard of promoting the well-being of the human race is applied. Look around. How much hate do you see in yourself, your family, your city, your county, your state, your country, our world?

John S. Strauss

Campton Hills