Death along the Saskatchewan

 

We don’t know much yet about the multiple stabbings in Saskatchewan. The presumed perpetrators are still at large. The latest body count is ten dead, fifteen wounded. 

But perhaps a few points are already evident:

1. Banning guns will not stop mass killings.

2. Mass killings are not, as often claimed, an exclusively “white” crime. These perps are aboriginal.

3. Mass killings are not done by “madmen” because they are mad. If this were not already obvious, it is not plausible that two random guys go psychotic at the same place at the same time.

4. Mass killings are not caused by overcrowding and alienation from neighbours in cities or the increasing complexity of modern life. Rural Saskatchewan does not fit that bill.

What does cause mass killings?

I’d blame the decline of religion. Nietzsche said that if God is dead, everything is permitted. Atheists often disagree with this, and insist that atheists are moral. But all that matters is that some people do believe this. If there is no God, and life is meaningless, why not just go berserk and kill everyone you can?

See too atheist Russia, atheist China, atheist North Vietnam, atheist Cambodia, and pagan Germany. Why not just kill people?

This may be a growing problem especially on native reserves, since the real or imagined residential school and “mass graves” scandals serve to discourage faith among young native people.

It is a growing problem in Canada generally, and in Western society. Now we have free and unrestricted abortion, and Medical Assistance in Dying… euthanasia; coming soon to the merely poor or inconvenient. We are becoming a “culture of death.”