Story: School shooter tells that Jesus saved me from a shooting rampage

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The night before the shooting, Stevens had nearly attempted suicide in his home. He said he had been interrupted by voices—not audible voices, more like thoughts that seemed to originate outside himself. The voices told him that to find peace, he must drive to the school to kill others first.
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At the school, hostages looked on as Stevens placed the barrel of a Mossberg hunting rifle in his mouth. Stevens recounts that one of the hostages, a woman, “fell down to her face screaming and crying… She said, ‘Don’t do this, you don’t have to do this — you haven’t hurt anybody.’”

But her necklace, more than her words, caught his attention, Stevens recalls. When he heard her scream, the gold cross swaying from her neck gleamed under the ceiling light, catching his eye. “As soon as that cross met my eyes, it confronted my sin"…

 

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Stevens’s own rage built gradually, like a mountain growing from the bottom of the ocean until it finally surfaced. His stepfather was abusive, and over the years, Stevens’s anger and desire for revenge accumulated. The trauma he endured made him feel powerless, and he trusted no one, creating the perfect conditions “for evil to dwell and grow within,” Stevens said.

The common thread in almost all mass shooters is the lack of a father figure. The cause is not necessarily mental illness, although that is also a contributing factor.

 

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