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He reiterated Farrell's assessment that the collapse of the family has been culturally catastrophic.

"There are so many boys who are growing up who are lost, they're lonely, they feel a sense of rage because perhaps their fathers have left them. They'd love to identify with their fathers but they can’t because their father has disappeared, and they take it personally. They feel like maybe they did something wrong."

Huckabee, who is also an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asserted that one effect of absentee fathers is that it often inclines young men away from spiritual solutions that might help them. "Those of us who would try to say, 'Well, look for spiritual answers.' How can you tell a young man that God wants to be your Father if his image of a father is someone who abandoned him or beat up his mother? This is why we have to rethink, but recognize at the same time, that ultimately the hole in the human heart can never be filled just by human things. It has to be filled ultimately by spiritual things that give people a higher sense of who they are, what their identity is, and why they matter."

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"It’s our cultural fault," Huckabee continued. "And part of what we have done, we've created a culture in which we said there is no God and human life isn’t really worth that much, and life is expendable, and there are lives that are disposable. And when a young man believes his life is disposable and expendable, he thinks the lives around him are, too. So why are we so shocked that he would be taking mass killings as his avenue of expressing his rage?"

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