A Reflection of a Society that has Lost its Ability to Love

   When we are accused, we strike back. It is the nature of the beast, the nature of the human. So, as investigators look into a motive for the school shooting in Sante Fe, they should consider that school coaches reportedly picked on Dimitrios Pagourtzis "for smelling bad."
   Bullying can come from adults as well as from fellow students. Picking on others for being smelly is one of the most common forms of bullying.
  At this point, we should consider that bullying might have been a factor. Knowing that the coaches castigated the youth for being smelly, we should look into that. You can encourage a person to be clean without demeaning and belittling them. How did the coaches handle it?
  Also, Pagourtzis was on the football team, but evidently not a wonderful player. Did a desire to achieve and gain self-worth play into his becoming a school shooter?
  Unlike most other shootings, the shooter is alive, and can be interviewed and there is a better chance of identifying the motive. Investigators should push for that motive.
  If we are looking at the causes of these school shootings, and what can be done to stop them, love is an answer. It would do no harm, at the very least, if we launched a national effort to love children. Love might seen like a silly answer, but it is not. Love makes more difference than anything. If we looked at all these school shootings and said, "It certainly points out the need for us to be a more loving society," we would be wise.
  These school shootings might be, as much as anything, a reflection of a society that has lost its ability to love.