What the Hell is wrong with People?

Last April, Virginia Tech, in Blacksburg, Virginia, was the site of the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history when a gunman killed 32 people and himself. Just last week, a nursing student shot two women and killed herself in front of classmates at a college in Louisiana.  On Thursday at Northern Illinois, Stephen Kazmierczak, 27, a former student,
killed five students and himself and wounded 21 others during a lecture. 

I have 3 beautiful daughters who will someday leave home for great universities like those mentioned above. This isn’t the type of thing they should have to concern themselves with, nor should anyone have to constantly look over their shoulders on alert for unbalanced psychopaths wielding the kind of firepower that should only be found on the battlefields of hostile nations.  

Maybe this is a matter of mental instability.  Maybe it is a gun control issue.  It might even be the result of the state of our society in general.  I doubt anyone could say for certain or that the underlying motives for any of these senseless killing sprees had anything in common. 

In my not-so-humble opinion, I believe it is a matter of personal responsibility and being accountable for ones own happiness or unhappiness as it may be.  Taking the lives of others simply because you are overwhelmed with responsibility or the world has become too difficult to deal with is completely unacceptable to me.  I’m sure it must be equally inexplicable to the families of those who lost their lives in these costly and preventable attacks.  

I wish the best for those grieving families and hope that this is the last murder-suicide that we hear about for some time to come.