Following the tragedy at the New Life Church in Colorado many will try to make sense of senseless violence without looking at critical similarities and differences between apparently unrelated events. Unless we are willing to examine rationally two sensitive subjects, prescription drugs and guns, the senseless murders will continue.

An increasingly common feature of mass murders in the last 20 years is that the shooters have undergone some kind of "treatment" with Prozac or a derivative. The mainstream media has thoroughly ignored this fact. Prozac or a relative floats like an angel of . . . → Read More: God and Guns End Drug Tragedy in Colorado

A recent letter to the Tico Times, Costa Rica’s English-language weekly newspaper, using an abundance of logical and ethical claptrap, urged the paper to decline advertisements from gun shops. The writers, emigrants from the UK, were understandably concerned about crime. They wrote with the certainty of the righteous.

It’s the guns, the letter writers tell us, that cause Costa Rica’s violence. Banning them is the only way to restore peace and brotherhood. Similar reasoning would conclude that spoons cause obesity. And I can only assume the writers were unaware of the soaring violent crime . . . → Read More: Victim Disarmament Neither Logical Nor Ethical