We Need to Stop

On June 8, 2008, someone set fire to the Texas Governor's Mansion. This mansion is one of the oldest continuously occupied executive residences in the United States.

An arson investigation is still ongoing, but investigators currently believe there was a political motive, and they are looking for someone disgruntled with the political system, the Governor, or some similar aspect.

We need to stop. We need to reflect. We need to change.

There will always be those with mental and emotional problems. Few, if any, would have anticipated the unstable person who poisoned the historic Texas Treaty Oak in 1989 for reasons somewhat similar to those that led an arsonist in 2002 to set Colorado's worst forest fire. The reasons? Their love life wasn't working out.

We need to stop. We need to learn, and we need to teach our children, better ways of conflict resolution and better ways to deal with our own inner conflicts. Maybe -- just maybe -- we can then see a world where destruction is "the road less traveled."