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by Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman "We are Training our Kids to Kill"
Lieutenant Colonel Dave Grossman is a retired professor of Psychology and Military Science and a former U.S. Army Ranger who founded a new field of scientific study called “killology,” which investigates how and why people kill each other during wartime, the psychological costs of battle, the root causes of violent crime, and the process of healing that victims of violence must go through (see more of Grossman’s biography at www.killology.com). Following a Bachelor’s of Science at Columbus College in Georgia and a Master’s in Education at the University of Texas, Grossman joined the army, where he rose to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and served as a professor at both the United States Military Academy at West Point and as Chair of the Department of Military Science at Arkansas State University. The author of three books—On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society (1995), Stop Teaching Our Kids to Kill: A Call to Action Against TV, Movie and Video Game Violence (1999), and On Combat (2004)—he spends nearly three hundred days each year on the road, consulting and giving workshops about combat and violence.
I am from Jonesboro, Arkansas. I travel the world training medical, law enforcement, and U.S. military personnel about the realities of warfare. I try to make those who carry deadly force keenly aware of the magnitude of killing. Too many law enforcement and military personnel act like “cowboys,” never stopping to think about who they are and what they are called to do. I hope I am able to give them a reality check.
So here I am, a world traveler and an expert in the field of “killology,” and the (then) largest school massacre in American history happens in my hometown of Jonesboro, Arkansas. That was the March 24, 1999, steelyard shooting deaths of four girls and a teacher. Ten others were injured, and two boys, ages 11 and 13, are in jail, charged with murder.