Violence

2Timothy 3:1,3,13

Matthew 24:12

Matthew 24:37 

"And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth."

Genesis 6:5,13

Watching for Warning Signs:

Seth Trickey was, by almost all accounts, a model student. On the honor roll at his middle school in Ft. Gibson, Okla., the 13-year-old attended church and had lots of friends—not the kind of kid who would open fire on his classmates... yet... on the morning of Dec. 8: moments after arriving at school, he pulled his father's 9mm semiautomatic handgun out of his backpack, then shot and wounded five students.

The Columbine Massacre:

Quoting Shakespeare and wishing for Tarantino, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold made video records of their plans for April 20, 1999. The details are chilling, and the boys' motives raise troubling questions. An exclusive look at the evidence

The Atlanta Massacre: 

In a seemingly endless afternoon of terror, the city's financial center becomes a slaughterhouse run by a two-fisted shooter. A portrait of the killer, his secrets and his torments

Road Rage:

Tailgating, giving the finger, outright violence--Americans grow more likely to take out their frustrations on other drivers...In Colorado Springs, 55-year-old Vern Smalley persuaded a 17-year-old boy who had been tailgating him to pull over; Smalley decided that, rather than merely scold the lad, he would shoot him. (And he did. Fatally--after the youth had threatened him.)

Lords of the Ring: 

McMahon's Monday night two-hour Raw Is War, filled with lewdness, simulated sex, prostitutes, and profanities, is the No. 1-rated show on cable TV, outpacing even Monday Night Football among male teens and edging out its slightly less raunchy rival, World Championship Wrestling's Monday Nitro. The two competing tours produce 15 hours of weekly TV, attracting a whopping 35 million viewers.

The Siege of Seattle:

In a ruckus over foreign trade, a surge of violence rocks the placid '90s. What does this odd coalition of globo-protesters really want?

The Children of Jonesboro:

This was, after all, the third multiple homicide at a Southern school in the past six months. Each successive slaughter had a progressively younger accused killer and a progressively higher body count: In Pearl, Miss., in October, a 16-year-old shot nine students, killing two (plus his mother, with a knife); in West Paducah, Ky., in December, a 14-year-old killed three of his classmates and wounded five more. Last week's carnage in Jonesboro, Ark., may well have been the work of the youngest mass murderers in American history...When the fire alarm went off shortly after 12:30 p.m. last Tuesday, teachers and students at Westside Middle School marched dutifully outside. Four minutes and 27 bullets later, 15 bodies lay bleeding on the pavement.

Kids Who Kill:

What's behind the epidemic of Teenage Murder...Disputes once settled with fists between kids are now settled with guns...every hundred hours more youths die in the streets than were killed in the Persian Gulf warfare.

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