Tell Me Why

I don't understand.

There were ten school shootings in the United States in 2012. Six of them resulted in deaths.

Do you know how many school shootings there have been in 2013? Four. Four in less than one month.

Is it bullying? Drugs? Are students becoming desensitized to violence because of video games and movies? Or perhaps it's our culture itself, the fetishization of mass shootings, the obsession that our news media has over the smallest new story related to these shootings.

Or perhaps it's none of the above. Perhaps it's something else entirely, something completely unknown, invisible to us.

I don't understand.

This is my attempt to understand. This is my attempt to look back at history and try and see a pattern. Any pattern. Anything to make sense of the senseless.