Trace mass killings to dysfunction at home

Democrats have their eye on the wrong cause for murder and mass murder. It is not guns or airplanes. It is certainly convenient for them to use these tragedies in the case of guns, to try and eliminate the Second Amendment by a thousand regulations to control the people.

But in the case of the German pilot, we don't blame the airplane, and for Richard Speck, who killed eight nursing students in 1966, we don't blame the knife.

The real reasons people grow up to be murdering gang members or mass murders is an unhealthy upbringing devoid of religion.

Andrew Kehoe, who killed 38 school kids and six adults and injured 58 others with a bomb in Michigan in 1927, had an unstable home. He lost his mother at 6, and father and stepmother were poor parents. All of the other mass murderers since then also grew up in broken homes; victims of divorce, abandonment, and other parental dysfunction.

None of the mass murderers were raised with any Christian understanding of the value of life. A dysfunctional home raises the chances for a child to feel alienated, seek gang life as a parental substitute, take drugs, and of developing a mental illness by adulthood.

Many children of broken homes do reach adulthood with a healthy mind, and there are single parents who carry the burden of two parents with great success, but we cannot deny that since the 1960s - when the culture of easy divorce and the gradual rejection of Christian standards began - more and more destructive and ill young minds have appeared.

It will only get worse until we stop rejecting God, and relearn to put children ahead of our own vanity and careers.

Harold Knudsen

Arlington Heights