The news all over Rochester Hills today is the story of a 15 year old boy who stabbed his mother to death. She was a divorced hypno-therapist whose license plate read LOVE4U. By all accounts she doted on her son, who most folks say was just a typical teenager.
How do people come to this? How does an ordinary high school freshman one day reach for a knife and stab his own mother (111 times)?
Is it the culture we live in? The culture of violent video games and movies, where slicing someone up is considered fun and entertaining. Do our children become desensitized to violence because it is such a large part of their everyday (entertainment) experience?
All I can do is react in sadness and dismay. Two lives totally destroyed, the promise of the future brought to nothing.
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