It's driving me mad, it's driving me mad...

y "I don't like Mondays". That's what a 16-year-old girl said to the press in the 70s. Quite understandable once most of people dislike Mondays. But is it a reason for killing?
Brenda Spencer seemed to think so. She shot her classmates on a Monday. "This livens up the day", you know! Once school was just boring, little golden Brenda took to classes the rifle she had earned from daddy on Christmas. She was used to killing ducks, so why would it be any different with humans? Well, she was just enjoying herself!
Unfortunately, some others seemed to like the idea... some were more creative than her, though. Like a young boy in Washington that dressed himself as a cowboy and got three guns with him to school one day, after being bullied for quite a long time. After shooting his Maths teacher (he probably didn't like it as Brenda didn't like Mondays...) he opened fire against his classmates. This case was slightly different, though: Barry's mother got deeply depressed after finding out his father was having an affair. So she thought a lot about suicide, telling the little kid he would have to do the same. But he ended up changing mama's idea a little and killing others instead of himself.
Others prefer to do it in group. Old pals having some "nice time together"! Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden got a van filled with camping stuff plus some weapons and dressed like soldiers. They thought it would be fun shooting against their teacher and classmates for a change! So they rang the alarm and waited behind some bushes for the others to get out. And BANG! BANG! They were shot down. Hit the ground.
Cases like those were many already, and they're getting more and more frequent at each day. But that's not all; the murderers are getting younger as well. Cases of little children playing with their parents' gun and killing a friend are turning into something usual. Another change that has happened is related to the senteces: Brenda, one of the very first ones on the "field" was sentenced to jail for 25 years to life, "only"! Later, as it got in "fashion", the press and the victims' relatives kept the court under pressure for harder sentences. And they got it. Now there's nothing against imprisioning much younger ones for as long as they live!
Prison is not the right place for children. When they start going there for staying, well, there's something very wrong going on! We are not saying they were any right. What these young ones did was terrible indeed! But was it really their fault for doing so? Well, maybe...But what about their parents and close relatives? Talking about suicide or carrying their guns around and showing their sons how to shoot small animals with no mercy. Killing should never be seen as entertainement! But was it really their fault? Well, maybe...
There could be many and many reasons for these deaths. But as The Boomtown Rats sang: "they can see no reasons, cause there are no reasons". The police men couldn't find them either, just that they could not like some weekday, or feel upset, or were turned down by some boyfriend...nothing consistent. Maybe there aren't reasons at all.
At least nothing restrict to someone's house, or DNA samples or anything some policial investigation may find. We think the actual reason is everywhere instead. All over the globe, inside our houses, at school, and so on. The problem is the world we live in. This crazy life style that makes victims everyday, maybe not killing them, but certainly messing with their mind. It's a quite tricky thing once we don't see it coming, but it's there. It's there when we find pretty normal giving a weapon to somebody as a present. It's there when we get used to children going to jail. It's there when we bully other people. It's there when we stop getting shocked with it all. And we are...
We are all being part of this vicious circle. So those kids aren't to blame. Their parents aren't to blame. At least, not alone.