Thanks ot the gun lobby/culture and easy access there are six North Carolina children that will not be celebrating Christmas as they did last year.

A line of five hearses (click title to entry - thank you)  leave Pleasant Garden Baptist Church after a funeral at the church near Greensboro, N.C., Friday, Dec. 2, 2011. Mourners packed into a Baptist church in their hometown near Greensboro for a collective funeral for the five children between 8 and 17 gunned down in a shooting rampage by Mary Ann Holder, 36. Officers say Holder apparently shot one of her sons and three other children while they slept at her Pleasant Garden home, shot and wounded her married former lover, then killed her younger son. Holder then killed herself. (AP Photo/News & Record, Nelson Kepley)

Yes, I said six and I mean six.  The gun culture of the USA allows people to think revenge at the end of a gun barrel is a real answer.  See, it is just 'one of those things' that 'goes on' in North Carolina.  The permission to assault for any personal reason is just overwhelming in society anymore.  There are far too many guns on the nation's streets with very loose permission to use them.

Sheriff: Two teenagers in custody after shooting student at NC high school (click here)
Submitted by Laura Seel
Mon, 10/24/2011 - 9:32pm.
FAYETTEVILLE, N.C. (AP) - Authorities say two teenagers have been taken into custody in the shooting of a 15-year-old North Carolina student who was wounded in the neck with what appeared to be a small-caliber bullet during a lunch period outside her high
school...

The permission of violence and personal vigilantism for resolving any insult.