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When a youngster asks this question (and certainly many have asked me), the first thing to say is: Most people don't.
And yet--it's impossible for any of us not to be thinking about this in an era of media saturation and brazen terrorism. A lot of kids carry a fair amount of anxiety on the subject. Let's face it: Today's youngsters aren't watching grainy serials about "cowboys and Indians." They are routinely watching, on everything from high definition TV sets to YouTube to their own i-Phones, clear, immediate video of people of people blowing each other's brains outs.
Here's a perspective: Sadly, this has been going on as there have been people living on this planet. It's a fact that people have always hurt one another; the first "recorded" murder involved Cain and Abel of the Bible. Cain didn't pack a handgun, but he did pack human nature. Lucky CNN, Fox, et al weren't around to show the tape a thousand times over and to have a "panel of experts" rehash and review the matter till some of us would be convinced that nothing but fratricide ever occurs in families and neighborhoods--even though most families are basically loving and most neighborhoods are quiet.
We need to remember that there isn't more violence per capita in the world than there ever was before. It's just more available for examination. Let's keep this is in mind--while watching over one another, using common sense, and remembering that most people do not kill other people.
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