Why are kids shooting other kids at school?

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50. Because our society carefully teaches that might makes right

It would be shocking if it didn't happen. Anyone under the age of 18 has lived most of his or her life in a United States that acts on the premise that might makes right. We turn to violence as the panacea for whatever ails us, lobbing missiles into civilian areas, holding people without charge for years on end, summarily executing people all over the world, and blowing up anything that scares us or baffles us. Yeah, there's some lip service paid to working things out and some namby-pamby touchy-feely stuff about talking out our differences. But when a quick resolution to a problem is needed, the bullets and the bombs fly, and anyone in the way is just out of luck or probably deserved it.

What lessons should our children be learning, and are we strong and confident enough to renounce violence? Magic 8 Ball says "Signs Point to No."