Where did all these psychos come from?
You’ve already heard about the shootings at Virginia Tech yesterday. It was in all the papers.
I cannot come up with a word sufficient to describe this. Evil seems too glamorous a word to describe someone who goes on a killing spree with such methodical precision and lack of emotion. Disturbed brings to mind the whack-jobs like Manson. Tragic would imply that this was a moral failing of some kind, and there’s no evidence that there was ever a moral struggle for this killer.
It’s quite obvious that the kid was broken. I mean, that’s a big fat duh. But what interests me is the answer to the questions “why” and “how”. Of course, since he blew his own brains out, we’ll never truly know either. And I can’t begin to speculate.
But there’s obviously a switch inside every head, and when it’s flipped, the brain just goes “ok, time to kill.” Why is that switch there? What is its purpose? How does it get flipped?
Why?
It always comes back to Why.
And the answer is always the same.
I don’t know.