Not meaning to be a smartass here either, but is there any violence that isn't senseless?

I'm thinking there's some connection in nut's last paragraph, but I'm still sorting out just where the link is...I was thinking after the Virginia Tech massacre, that I was around when the granddaddy of school shooters, Charles Whitman, did his thing in Texas over 40 years ago, & how shocked & stunned we all were then...& how we're no closer to figuring out how to stop this kind of madness, & how it doesn't raise an eyebrow anymore unless the body count sets a new record...maybe we're all a little too desensitized now...

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