Oh Sweety, I just do not know.  I can't understand it at all and I resent these people taking their evil into others lives.  Not a world I want to know..  Sucks!

Oh Winnie, (see answer to Kathryn!) yes, despair, total pondering of what could possibly make  humans act that way, gang brute mentality. I worked with young people from different backgrounds and I know violence breeds violence... but is there hope when the violence is accepted and rewarded?  Gangs exist only to reward and promote and that mindless acceptance of violence, that is what we need to rage against.   People that instead of valuing life are so evil as to not regard it as sacred.   Sorry, just very sad.

The degree of violence is terrible.  I was watching a special on gangs and gang mentality around the world and we can not understand the violence some people are so accustom to.  And violence escalates when like minded people get together and reinforce such ideas.  I so feel for this beautiful soul that had to face such evil. 

Oh Pauline he was just the most lovely boy, how do these people live with themselves?

I just can't believe this and you are so right, it is the lowest.  I too hope they are caught, I hate to think of this type of person out among us.

It is and the heart break such a senseless act has caused is so large.

I can't understand or even pretend to have a handle on such violence.  I can only imagine it comes from how they have been raised and what they have allowed into their lives, I just don't know.

I'm so sorry to hear about yet another senseless death, and of  your own loss in it.

There are always exceptions, but you will probably be proved right - they have probably had a disfunctional childhood and are unable to comprehend the feelings of others as we do. Sad to say, there was probably alcohol or/& drugs involved too - there usually is and it would explain to me at least the high level of violence.

It just goes to show, that the roles of parents and teachers are vital in nurturing a healthy society both now and for the next generation.

Oh Kathryn, So, so senseless and so very sad.  What ever the reasons I can only think of the bigger one, why? Why, why! Isn't there some thing that should trump all the pathetic reasonings???  I am so very sick of hearing reasons why, this group, that group need special treatment, need special considerations, we all are of one family, one earth, one being and one reason...to live the best we can and why do these violent beings think that they matter the most?

Oh Marg, if we could but know why, but I think that might be too devastating for us - to see the world through the thugs eyes too?

Why do they think they matter the most - perhaps because we are all born selfish and not everyone learns as they grow that this isn't how we are meant to be - we are all meant to be in a web of relationships, interconnected, dependant, putting others before ourselves, co-operating, LOVING.

But none of us shake off the selfishness completely, so even though the badly damaged ones do the most damage, I think we all say a selfish word here and there that does damage, and we all fail to be quite as unselfish or do quite as well as we dream of doing. Which is why I'm a Christian - looking for some help from the one who knows me better than I know myself, and yet still loves me. Otherwise the hopelessness of it all would defeat me. And at the end of the day, the thugs may get excused here and now, or even never caught, but Death gets 100% eventually and I do believe that then they will have to face what they have done and their excuses will be ashes.