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Copyright: © 2007 Tom Flannery
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HOW COULD VIRGINIA TECH NOT HAVE HAPPENED?

By: Tom Flannery

Another school shooter goes on a rampage -- this time at Virginia Tech, in the worst incident of mass murder in American history -- and the same question is trumpeted across our airwaves and heard repeatedly from one end of the country to the other.

"How could this happen?" so many ask.

The better question, by far, would be: "How could this not happen?"

How could it not happen when our courts have overstepped their bounds and legislated (something they were never intended to do) the removal of God from so much of our public life, in particular our public schools and universities.  The Supreme Court even removed the posting of the 10 Commandments from our schools on the grounds that if kids read the commandments they might be tempted to follow them.  So "thou shalt not kill" was thrown out, and in came the armed guards and the surveillance cameras and the security doors and the repeated news stories about mass slaughters on our public school and university campuses.

How could it not happen when these same public schools and universities have been teaching kids for decades that they evolved from the slime of some prebiotic soup and that they are nothing more than randomly-gathered protoplasm?  If kids are taught from K through college that they descended from animals, why are we surprised when they act like animals?

How could it not happen when our nation's cultural collapse has resulted in our movie theaters, television airwaves, music stores, video arcades and other entertainment venues being flooded with the worst, most vile and sadistic kind of mind poison imaginable?  Or when far too many parents allow their children unfettered access to it all?

How could it not happen when we literally train kids to be conscienceless murderers through the mass marketing of quick-kill video games designed to instruct them in the "art" of gunning down as many people as possible in the shortest amount of time?

How could it not happen when we have devalued life through a malevolent culture of death -- the systematic assault on human life via abortion, euthanasia, the murder of brain-injured individuals like Terri Schiavo, fetal-tissue and embryonic stem-cell research?

We all grieve for the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre and we pray for their families and loved ones.  Whether we realize it or not, though (and most people choose not to), there's a massacre taking place in America every single day, with some 3,000 unborn children being incinerated or dismembered to death in abortion mills across the country on a daily basis.  That's a 9/11 every day.

In the wake of Virginia Tech, a momentous Supreme Court ruling was issued which upheld a ban on partial-birth abortion enacted by Congress (back when Republicans were still in the majority) and signed into law by President Bush.  Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney called it an important step forward, as indeed it is.  But it's still just a step.  After all, every abortion stops a beating heart.  And until we deal with the slaughter of the innocents on the altar of "choice," numbering in the tens of millions to date, the other slaughters will continue unabated.

Thomas Jefferson, commenting on the scourge of slavery, said he trembled for this country when he meditated on the fact that God is just, and His justice will not forever be restrained.  And if the blood of one innocent victim, Abel, cried out from the ground to God for justice (Genesis 4:10), compelling God to answer in His divine wrath, how much more is the blood of over 40 million innocents crying out to Him?  And how can God not respond all the more to those cries?

The massacre at Virginia Tech, like all the other school slaughters of the past decade, was a horrendous act that will reverberate tragically in the lives of untold thousands of people for many years to come.  But these are not the only massacres that have taken place, and they are not the only victims.

There's a massacre every day in America.  And 3,000 more lives are being extinguished as each new day passes.

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