New gun laws would
not have stopped the Parkdale school shooter. The laws already in place should have stopped him. They failed. The people responsible to protect the public from people like the killer
dropped the ball. In any case mentally deranged killers dont care about laws.
We would be better off looking at preventing the factors that led to the shooting. One thing Nikolas Cruz had in common with other school shooters is the lack of a father figure in his life. His father died when he was young.
Seven of the
19 shootings since 2005 were committed by young males. Peter Hasson at
The Federalist observed that only one of the seven was raised by his biological father throughout childhood."
Homes Without Fathers
Others have seen the same thing. Stephen Baskerville a professor at Patrick Henry College says by far the main predictor of shooting rampages along with all other criminality and virtually every social pathology among young males is a
home without a father."
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