It's far easier to slander one's political adversaries and to demand that responsible citizens forfeit their constitutional rights,

that it is to examine the cultural sickness giving birth to unspeakable acts of evil.

It's far less comfortable to ask why despair and isolation and violent hatred is so prevalent in America.

It requires a sick soul to drive a truck into a crowded sidewalk, to plan a bomb at a marathon, or to fly a plane into a building. It requires a sick

soul to open fire in a movie theater or in a church or in a school. A speeding automobile in the hands of a madman is deadly, as is a jet airplane.

Tragedies like the events of this week are a mirror, forcing us to ask hard questions, demanding

that we see where our culture is failing.

Looking at broken families, absent fathers, declining church attendance, social media bullying,

violent online content, desensitizing the act of murder in video games, chronic isolation,

prescription drug and opioid abuse, and their collective effects on the psyche of young Americans.

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