Comment Where did they get the guns?? (Score 1) 898
First of all, Bavo Benjamin.
This is the first comment I've read that deals with the problem. The fact that these kids had guns, and decided to use them on thier fellow students are the symptoms. The problem is that they were A) willing to and B) decided to.
What was going on in these kids head I can only barely understand. But I do know that it is not something that happend in a day. Theoretically, these kids had been talking to thier parents and school counselors for years with this hate fermenting inside them. No one noticed? Or no one had the time and energy to care!?
We push ourselves and our schools harder and harder every year. Teaching subjects like reading and writing is no longer enough. We have to teach cultural diversity, relaxation techniques, coping skills. Why have the schools been asked to take this on? Because the parents are both working full time and more, and think they should still be able to have a social life. The result on the kid is intense. Add in the fact that childeren are some of the most cruel and inhumane people you are ever likely to meet and you have a receipe for disaster. Now that the disaster is happening society runs around trying to blame it on anyone but themselves.
You don't like how easy it is to get guns, work with your local government and have them restricted. Don't like the violence on TV, call or write the sponsers and tell them you will not buy thier products because of their sponsorship. Don't like violent video games, don't buy/play them.
It is not complicated, it just takes self discipline.
This is the first comment I've read that deals with the problem. The fact that these kids had guns, and decided to use them on thier fellow students are the symptoms. The problem is that they were A) willing to and B) decided to.
What was going on in these kids head I can only barely understand. But I do know that it is not something that happend in a day. Theoretically, these kids had been talking to thier parents and school counselors for years with this hate fermenting inside them. No one noticed? Or no one had the time and energy to care!?
We push ourselves and our schools harder and harder every year. Teaching subjects like reading and writing is no longer enough. We have to teach cultural diversity, relaxation techniques, coping skills. Why have the schools been asked to take this on? Because the parents are both working full time and more, and think they should still be able to have a social life. The result on the kid is intense. Add in the fact that childeren are some of the most cruel and inhumane people you are ever likely to meet and you have a receipe for disaster. Now that the disaster is happening society runs around trying to blame it on anyone but themselves.
You don't like how easy it is to get guns, work with your local government and have them restricted. Don't like the violence on TV, call or write the sponsers and tell them you will not buy thier products because of their sponsorship. Don't like violent video games, don't buy/play them.
It is not complicated, it just takes self discipline.
