[Strategerist]

Absolutely correct. This once free and open society was held in check by our reverence for Biblical principles and restraints. What our society once was simply can no longer be because we have shaken our fist at God and said, “We dont’t want you!” And hence we get today, or the other day at the mall, or Columbine, or....

That in 1927 nutcase blew up a school in Michigan killing 38 elementary kids suggests not as much has changed as you think.

[Obadiah]

Really? Of course there is always evil, and random incidents reflecting this evil, but the pace of evil in this country (and elsewhere) has surely quickened way past the random spectacular event.