Many "Monsters"

Many are calling the Virginia Tech shooter a "monster." Such a term serves to distance him from the rest of us mortals, implying that he was special in his evil and that we could never do such a thing. Tell that to the Germans of World War II, the Rwandans of 1994, the Americans who held slaves until the bloody emancipation.

Yes, given the wrong circumstances, brain chemistry, heredity, choices, and opportunity, any one of us could have descended down that particular path of sin. There but for the grace of God go we.