Worrying Trends.

I just read about the latest school shooting in Nashville, and assumed that it will lead to another demand from the more liberal sector of the American population for swingeing reforms in the matter of gun ownership. There’s nothing wrong with that; it’s a logical response. And yet I can’t help feeling that there’s something so rotten in the American consciousness that it can produce a seemingly endless conveyor belt of people prepared to do that kind of thing.

And then I thought a little further and realised that we have a similar problem in the UK, although on a rather smaller scale. We currently have what is growing into an apparent epidemic of teenagers killing each other with knives. I sense a connection of some kind, although what it is hasn’t yet come into sharp focus.