Looking on the unimaginable horror which unfolded in Broward County on Wednesday, it’s human nature to want answers. But those answers must be the correct ones. They mustn’t be feel good answers, fed to us by ideology driven politicians with questionable intent, wouldn’t you agree? So with heartfelt sorrow for those whose lives have been brutally altered forever, we go in search of those answers. Not by the easy road to be sure, but instead by looking inward for what we’ve lost, those cultural norms that did us well and that now seem a distant shadow in our collective past.

Oh, it’s easy to embrace the phony outrage of late night pundits and frothing politicians. Blaming the gun for the actions of the owner, and immediately flooding “fake news” outlets with waves of misinformation and questionable statistics is usually quick and painless. But I believe we’ve reached a crossroads in this seemingly endless search for a young killer’s motives when he enters a school to commit mass murder.

So in the interest of being part of the solution I would only say that, at this juncture when “We the People” have systematically re-defined the American family, blurred the lines at the rest room door, chosen medication over parenting, re-written the history books, allowed violent video games to replace play time and outdoor activities, painted law-enforcement as the enemy and chased God from our classrooms and public buildings, we must now face the hard reality that these tragedies and those committed on the streets of cities like Chicago every day, are about much more than simply firearms.

And finally, so long as we look our children in the eye and tell them that ending God-given human life in the womb is a choice we have moral authority over, we will NEVER stand high enough to answer the questions of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Valentine’s Day 2018.

 Please remember the families in your prayers…