Blogger photog has a piece up at his blog, Orion’s Cold Fire, entitled “What I Took Away from the Weekend Horror Fest,” which sums up the root causes of this weekend’s two terrible shootings: fatherless, isolated young men with few prospects, few role models, and an excess of narrow ideology.
As I wrote way back in January, I don’t typically write about shootings, because I don’t have much to add, and because the discussion always (incorrectly) focuses on controlling guns, not on addressing the real underlying issue. The United States doesn’t have a gun problem; we have a God problem. More precisely, we’ve jettisoned any sense of a transcendent moral order in favor relativism and a form of neo-paganism.
The Portly Politico 