Americans are asking, "How could such a thing happen?" The "experts" are trying to explain to us how such a thing could happen. Their answers run the gamut. We need more psychological awareness of the misfits and help them. We need more programs to occupy the spare time of our children. We need more police and weapons detectors in the schools. And, the first order of business, of course, is gun control. But most of this stuff is in place already and the problem increases steadily.
Parental responsibility is also mentioned by many. Let us consider that for a bit. God gives parents an awesome responsibility with their "little bundles of joy." He said to the children of Israel, ". . . thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart . . . And these words which I command thee this day shall be in thine heart: And thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shalt talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down and when thou risest up. . . . And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall . . .give thee great and goodly cities . . . and houses filled with all good things . . . when thou shalt have eaten and be full; then, beware lest thou forget the Lord . . . And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you? Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bondmen in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand: . . . And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day. And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us." (Deuteronomy 6:5-25).
But what has America done with such counsel? Both parents have gone to work, leaving the children at home, unsupervised for at least a few hours daily. They have provided them Internet access, given them their own television set in their room and have left the training of their children in the hand of their school teachers. They have allowed their leaders to deny those teachers the use of the Bible for moral guidance and the privilege of prayer in the classroom, or even after school, except when a couple of violent teens kill a score of students and faculty. At such a time it is good that the Vise President quotes Scripture as though it is a part of our national fabric.
I submit to you that none of the "expert" solutions will work until we are willing to get back to our national moorings, until parents take their responsibilities for the spiritual and moral training of their children, and until we again allow God to have His rightful place in our society. Until then, we are asking for the judgment of God upon our nation. Littleton could become the norm, rather than the exception.