Is there a link between Terri Schiavo and the Minnesota shootings?

“Maybe it's a sin not to send someone to heaven.” -- Florida state Senator Nancy Argenziano.

Supporters of euthanasia argued for the legality and morality of killing someone on the floor of the US House of Representatives Sunday, invoking religious phrases and emotional wording to rationalize the intentional taking of another human life.

The next day in Minnesota, a troubled high schooler, whose father had committed suicide and mother was laying in a coma due to a traffic accident, took them at their word. He grabbed a gun, killed his grandparents, then headed to school.

You didn't ask me, but there could be a subtle connection. A disturbed person could pick up unconscious signals. There was murder in the courtroom in Atlanta, and next thing on the big screen in are the murders in the church outside of Milwaukee.

"A disturbed person could pick up unconscious signals."

Note to self...invest more heavily in Reynolds Wrap.

I can't argue the point...I have no clue how another persons mind works (just ask my wife), but it seems a stretch.

I'm more apt to believe a shooting in a church is more likely to set off a shooting in a school...one perp...many unarmed targets; that similarity I could see, this one, no.

I readily admit, I have no clue as to why some humans act as they do; something for me to think about.....OK I've thought about it......I still don't know how or why a person would do this, but I resolve to never again leave the house without carrying....ever.

It does sound like tinfoil stuff, but I remember the Texas Tower shooting. That seemed like the first volley in wanton killing. There seemed to be a whole lot of copycat killings after that.

I chalk it up to collective insanity and dysfunction in our society (not total), the culture, and an unknown x factor.

Growing up, the worst violence I experienced from the media were detective dramas on the radio, cowboy movies (which I loved), and cartoons where there was a lot of road kill. Nobody in my generation took an of that to the next level . . .

I don't have all the answers, and a lot young kids are fed a steady diet of violence on tv and the movies, and don't act out.

There have always been bad incidents if you look in old newspapers, but they didn't get the kind of coverage like they do now, and the frequency was less. There were a lot more suicides than I was aware of back 100 years ago until I started digging through old stuff. Some of it was kept kind of hush hush, not talked about in families. You don't find some of these things until you start going through your family history which intersects with other family histories.

Mass, wanton killing with high body count is rather new though apart from wars.

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