No sooner had the word of the Sandy Hook Elementary School slaughter in Newtown,Connecticut broke than the search for \u201croot causes\u201d was well under way.\u00a0 Not unexpectedly, topping the list was the \u201croot cause\u201d par excellence, the alleged lack of \u201cgun control.\u201d<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, none of the following \u201croot causes\u201d made the cut.<\/p>\n
For nearly forty years, abortion<\/strong> has been the law of our land.\u00a0 Forget for the moment whether the aborted is a \u201cperson,\u201d \u201cchild,\u201d or \u201cfetus,\u201d or whether or not it has a \u201cright to life.\u201d\u00a0 What no one can deny is that it is<\/em> its mother\u2019s posterity, her begotten.\u00a0 It is her child. <\/em><\/p>\n But in allowing mothers, <\/em>of all people, to destroy their own children, can anyone doubt that we make minced meat of the idea that children, being the most vulnerable among us, are to be protected at all costs?\u00a0<\/p>\n Maybe it is exactly because the abortion culture had taken its toll upon mass murderer Adam Lanza\u2019s psyche that he had no regard for innocent children.<\/p>\n Capital punishment, <\/em><\/strong>or, more precisely, the infrequency with which it is implemented, may also explain Lanza\u2019s murderous actions.\u00a0<\/p>\n Far from undermining the sanctity of human life, there is no other institution that affirms it more resoundingly than that of the death penalty.\u00a0 Inasmuch as the latter expunges from the midst of the living those who would commit such unthinkable crimes as that of which Adam Lanza is guilty, capital punishment is the clearest expression of a people\u2019s regard for the life and well being of its members.\u00a0<\/p>\n However, the death penalty is rarely exercised with any measure of regularity where it remains on the books, and in places like Connecticut particularly, it is scarcely exercised at all.\u00a0 Since 1976, only one person had been executed in the state, and earlier this year,Connecticut repealed the ultimate punishment.<\/p>\n The sanctity of human life is thus eroded further.\u00a0 Lanza may have gotten the memo.<\/p>\n Manza\u2019s race <\/strong>and gender <\/em><\/strong>could have played a huge role in accounting for his rampage.\u00a0 Consider that Manza was a young white man, that is, a member of just that group, and only that group, that is derided and mistreated as a matter of policy.\u00a0<\/p>\n From \u201caffirmative action\u201d to massive Third World immigration, from media depictions of white men as either ignoramuses or crazed \u201cracists\u201d to the incessant barrage of giddy proclamations of an ever diminishing white America, the assault on white men is comprehensive.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n Is it impossible to believe that a young white man like Manza, who has been exposed to this systematic abuse his entire life, may not have been consumed with both self-hatred<\/em> and rage?\u00a0 For that matter, may not this cultural animus toward whites have figured in Manza\u2019s choice to leave a trail (judging from news photos) of mostly white bodies?<\/p>\n Then there is the matter of Manza\u2019s ethnicity<\/strong>.\u00a0 \u201cManza\u201d is an Italian surname, and Italians and Italian-Americans are routinely portrayed as Mafioso and other violent thugs in the popular media.\u00a0<\/p>\n Maybe Manza incorporated this image into his own self-understanding.\u00a0 Maybe this <\/em>is why he chose to go on a shooting spree.<\/p>\n Almost as unrelenting as their campaign against white men is that which the Politically Correct storm troopers have prosecuted against religion. <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Traditional Christian theism has been mocked and ridiculed while atheism has been promoted as \u201ccool\u201d and \u201chip.\u201d\u00a0 But, as hardened atheists from Friedrich Nietzsche to Jean Paul Sartre have noted, if there is no God then there is no objective morality: man is free\u2014condemned <\/em>to be free, Sartre insisted\u2014to create <\/em>his own values. \u00a0In fact, he has no option but to create his values, for there are no values otherwise.<\/p>\n Is it inconceivable to think that this message just may have crept into Lanza\u2019s consciousness over the span of his life?<\/p>\n Now for the punch line: I don\u2019t for a moment believe that any of the foregoing \u201croot causes\u201d are in the least relevant to Adam Lanza\u2019s decision to gun down 20 little kids and six adults.\u00a0 Yet they have at least as much as to do with it as does the lack of \u201cgun control\u201d on which scores of leftists rushed to hang this abomination.<\/p>\n Lanza was an evil man responsible for perpetrating an evil deed.\u00a0 As long as there are evil people in the world, evil will be with us.<\/p>\n Maybe it is to the \u201croot causes\u201d of why our generation fails to come to terms with this timeless fact that we need to turn our attention.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No sooner had the word of the Sandy Hook Elementary School slaughter in Newtown,Connecticut broke than the search for \u201croot causes\u201d was well under way.\u00a0 Not unexpectedly, topping the list was the \u201croot cause\u201d par excellence, the alleged lack of \u201cgun control.\u201d Unsurprisingly, none of the 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