With each American massacre, the ritual is the same: the planet, terrified, wonders why the United States is incapable of regulating firearms.

We understand why. Seen from afar, the American gun culture is repulsive. Moreover, many Americans are also sorry about it, even if the American political system makes it almost impossible to introduce large-scale legislation that would significantly limit their circulation, or at least, which would not allow access to them as well. easily.

But once that said, little has been said.

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Because part of the essential is found elsewhere.

How to explain, at the heart of American culture, the circulation of these morbid impulses which push certain individuals to contemplate nothingness, to idolize evil, imagining that it is by mimicking the devil that they will be able to become king of the world? .

Anyone who attacks a school is not attacking a place like any other: he is attacking a place that should be protected. Anyone who attacks children attacks the very face of innocence.

Whoever attacks a school where there are children to massacre them is aware of committing the greatest transgression. He commits an act that could be called diabolical.

We will then ask ourselves a simple and complex question: what happened for American society to channel these impulses into the heart of social life?

How did carnage become a recurring social phenomenon?

By what curse do killers come to want to imitate each other?

I say this knowing that such questions seem strange in our world which no longer takes evil seriously, and which tends to reduce it to mental illness.

We understand this reflex: evil is a metaphysical, mysterious problem, an enigma forever indecipherable at the heart of human nature.

Mental illness is a treatable disease, which we can take care of, which we can hope, one distant day, to cure, thanks to progress in psychiatry.

All this affects our conception of the human being.

The modern world wanted to believe, following Jean-Jacques Rousseau, that man is fundamentally good, and that it is society that corrupts him.

He wanted to believe that one day we will find a sufficiently advanced society that will turn evil into a residual problem, doomed to disappear. But that is not the truth of human nature.

In the heart of man, good and evil are intertwined.

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And in the hearts of some men, evil dominates, bewitches, hypnotizes.

The drama of American society is that it is so damaged that it allows these cranks to sow death around them, to destroy a world that they shout down and want to reduce to ashes.

We saw it again in Texas, which reminded us that life on earth sometimes takes on the face of hell on earth.