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Violence is an inevitable result of: People having disagreements; feeling that they are either not being treated equally by others, or are superior to others; and being of a different constitution for every unique individual, making for an incredibly wide potential of responses to any situation.
For every person who goes over the top, grabs a weapon and massacres others, there is someone faced with exactly the same problems, who straightens their shoulders and fixes those problems to everybody's advantage. How many of the latter's stories do we hear of? Relatively few. But we hear about the massacres far too often.
About the only thing that keeps me from completely panicking about things like this is: Given the almost 7 billion people on this planet, and therefore the potential for so many to go over the edge, the fact that we hear so few of these incidents compared to how many of us there are, assures me that the overriding majority of humans on this planet are not like that.
But stress is stress... people are people... and in most cases, simply having a decent outlet, someone to talk to, or a place to turn to for help, would have kept quite a lot of these incidents from happening.
As complex (and potentially dangerous) as society has become, we as a society need to concentrate on providing appropriate relief valves for these stress-points, as well as better ways of identifying people who cannot handle their stress alone, and ways of engaging them to relieve that stress before it is too late. With all the effort we put into developing the latest cellphone or coolest SUV, we are falling down on the job of taking care of each other.
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