NAU: this is the 144th school shooting since 2013.

A Senator said something like: "This needs to be treated like Ebola or some kind of other epidemic!"

I think I agree with this.

Though each of us might have a different solution. Somehow in the end we don't value human life enough or this wouldn't be happening. So, whatever has happened to human beings since the 1950s or 1960s really isn't good in regard to people shooting people.

My thought is that people are actually "Less Human" now than they used to be.

Less people have two parents than when I grew up. And this also might be a part of the cause of all this.

People were taught more forcefully to value human life when we grew up. It was beaten into us. I think unless protecting human life is "Beaten into people" so they are terrified of harming others except in self defense that these shootings will continue to grow.

For example, what made me a good driver was actually all the pain I experienced on bicycle accidents from age 5 onward because I was always on a bicycle. So, the consequences and the pain caused me to be a good adult driver. I learned how not to be injured or in accidents through riding a bicycle all the time including delivering newspapers for money on my bicycle starting at age 10.

Without enough physical pain I wouldn't have decided at 5 that fighting with other boys was "Really stupid". Also, I was big for my age and people knew if they attacked me they were going to the hospital because I was strong enough to hurt them if they attacked me.

So, I basically, usually didn't physically fight with people beyond arguments or punching arms or other young boy macho behavior. It never usually came to outright warfare where people had to go to the hospital.

It didn't mean there wasn't a lot of anger but in the 1950s and 1960s to use a gun on someone else you were considered to be sort of like the Mafia and Low class as a result or just outright "Crazy". So, if people fought in the 1950s and 1960s they usually used knives, clubs, chains, cars etc.

It is very hard for most people to kill with knives clubs etc. because it is so very up close and personal.

Whereas a gun is very impersonal sort of like playing a video game on your TV or computer.

IT is too far removed from most people's psychological reality and this is the real problem.