Joshua Arnold, writing for The Daily Signal.com, we think, has the correct bead on why these mass shooters do what they do. He writes:
Senate Democrats considered gun control legislation last week in response to the mass school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, but Republicans questioned whether such a response would actually address the real problem.
“Why is our culture suddenly producing so many young men who want to murder innocent people?” asked Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah. “Could things like fatherlessness, the breakdown of families, isolation from civil society, or the glorification of violence be contributing factors?”
They absolutely are contributing factors, said Lynne Marie Kohm, professor of family law at Regent University School of Law, on “Washington Watch.” “The state of the family makes a huge difference.” After extensive research on juvenile violence, Kohm has compiled a list of five “common denominators for all of these boys” who turn violent:
While not every neglected youth will become a mass shooter (stress and loneliness also factor in—not to mention personal choices), the pathway to violence appears to begin with absent fathers.
“Our children are growing up in wrath because the fathers are not engaged with them,” lamented Family Research Council President and host of “Washington Watch” Tony Perkins, invoking Ephesians 6:4. The fathers aren’t “present in their lives, helping them through this transition into adulthood.”
Perkins, who has five children, insisted being a good father is about “not just being physically present. It is being emotionally involved and engaged in the life of a child.”
Kohm agreed, “even if dad’s not available,” children need “someone that can step in.”
Fathers must begin engaging with their children early. According to the American Worldview Inventory, George Barna said, “By the age of 13, [a person’s worldview is] almost completely in place.”
The responsibility to raise the next generation of men lies with fathers and families, not the state, but that doesn’t mean policy plays no role.
“There needs to be a revival of parental rights, parental involvement,” Kohm diagnosed. “There’s been such an assault on parental rights that parents feel impotent, that they can’t do anything to protect their kids.”
This feeling of helplessness is particularly acute in schools, with administrators shutting parents out and hiding from them information regarding their child’s well-being.
“We have emasculated parents. We have taken away their power and their authority because they’re afraid, because the government’s crowding them out,” said Perkins.
Yet “very few political leaders have the courage to ask the real questions,” he continued, adding that many are too busy trotting out “the same old talking points—gun control, mental health spending.” Meanwhile, a generation of young people is languishing for lack of good fathers to teach them how to grow up to maturity.
So, the next time a hardened young man takes his anger out on innocent civilians, a question at least as relevant as “Where did he get a gun?” is “Where did he lose a father figure?”
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