Common denominators of mass murder

There are really only a couple of common denominators that factor into mass murders like the back-to-back slaughters in the USA over the past few weeks. Although there are never tragedies that politicians can’t twist in favour of their own personal agendas, mass shootings have less to do race, religion, nationality, or politics than they do with “hate.”

Hate knows no national boundaries. Hate is not uncommon to any race, country, religion, or political belief. People are always looking to pin the blame of these crimes on some labelled group, most recently white supremacy and gun owners.

But the truth is, if you took away both there would surely be more mass murders because what hasn’t been taken away is the hate.

Note the differences in the following mass killings:

• The Garissa University attack in Kenya in 2015 had 148 murdered by Al-Shabaab, a Muslim group murdering mostly Christians. That group was also responsible for killing 67 in the Westgate Shopping Mall murders in 2013 in Kenya.

• In 9/11/2001 Islamic terrorist group al-Qaeda killed 3,000 indiscriminately during four coordinated attacks in the US. . . . contd.