Lordy. Another angry, gun totin’ male out capping random Colorado citizens, this time in church.  Sounds like testosterone poisoning. We really need to re-examine how we raise males in our society because something continues to be dreadfully wrong.

Evidently, kids learn about nature from the Natural Geographic Channel, but curiously, they don’t learn violence from the rest of television culture. Hmmm. I guess ideation of violence just glances off kids like scrambled eggs off a teflon pan.

Sarcasm aside, who really knows what the causality behind this event was?  But surely immersion in a culture that idealizes the drama of violence can’t help. This was a final showdown.  Isn’t that how many if not most action/adventure movies end? Desired outcome through superior firepower. What is imitating what? 

Collectively, we seem unwilling to address the matter of how young men might be influenced to choose away from violent resolution of conflict.