ROOTS

I don't know exactly what is going on here, but my access to  my host site has been blocked all day.  It could be that some anti-Obama weirdo posted a blog pointing out some of his shortfalls, or it could be that N.S.A. snooping caused the site to crash.  I simply don't know and hope that this post goes through.  

So, yesterday morning, some whacko with a gun entered LAX and started shooting.  Here we go again with another spectacular gun crime.  This guy had just texted somebody and said that he's considering suicide and he shows up at LAX shooting, waiting for some law enforcement official to shoot him dead; that's his method of suicide.  

Did the gun cause the shooting?  No.  Did the so-called lax laws about gun ownership cause the shooting?   No.  Did the gun manufacturer or the ammo maker cause the shooting?  No.  So, who or what did cause the shooting? 

Where I'm going with this is that we keep zeroing in on symptoms or methods and we fail to identify the root cause of these shootings.  Could it be the proliferation of microwaves?  Maybe it's something to do with computers or computer games?  Could it be chemicals in the water?  Air pollution?  A combination of these things?  A breakdown in social norms and structure?  

These are the questions we need to get answered.  Let's quit wasting our time pointing fingers and start seriously looking for the root causes.  Otherwise, the causes will simply manifest themselves in different ways if we remove the methods, (guns, knives, choking, poison, etc.), or deal solely with the symptoms.  
  
That's MY AMERICAN OPINION, respectfully submitted.