By: Kim Lane

Kim Lane — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:52:45 +0000

You can see what happened in Britain when guns were taken away from the people-crime went up dramatically, of course. More gun restrictions will only take guns away from decent citizens as the criminals and psychos will always have theirs, so to me it is a ridiculous “solution”. It will only compound the problem. Its like saying, apples give you cancer, so let’s stop eating oranges. I feel that the problem is within our people- the ones who do these crimes have something either broken or never working inside them to begin with, allowing them to be so self centered and full of hate. The difference with the kids of today is how they were raised- by watching crappy TV and playing violent video games instead of building tree forts and playing marbles and being held accountable when mom or dad come home and junior’s after school snack dishes haven’t been washed. We are more of a violent nation because we have allowed our kids to have “entitlements” such as watching wacked TV shows, chopping off heads in mortal combat, little girls are allowed to dress like hookers and the boys get away with calling them ho’s just like off of Vice City, just to mention a few daily depravities that our young people delight in doing nowadays. We no longer as a nation instill values and morality in our kids but instead focus on telling them they have “rights” to all and any feelings that might strike them. The parents sit idly by while their children are basically left to raise themselves and are “suprised” when something like this at VA Tech happens. We need to treat the disease, not just view the symptoms as the problem. Kids need to be taught the precious value of life, and this needs to be taught by our society as a whole as well as the parents. Liberal parents need to stop living in fear of hurting their kid’s feelings, grow a spine and make a change in our world by teaching responsibility, character and honor in doing the right thing whether the kid’s going to have fun or not doing it. Most kids that I have seen that are “dark, withdrawn and sulky” are kids that have been raised to always expect things from the world and to whine if they didn’t get always get them. They are spoiled and can’t be made to be happy because they are always demanding and expecting more, more and more and not a whole lot is expected from them in return in regards to self control or thoughtfulness towards others. I realize being a kid can be tough, but I think it is much worse when society is constantly telling them how important the superficial things are and neglecting to show and teach them standards, values, ethics, morality, etc. We have raised quite a few self-centered brats. There have always been kids that are picked on and the bullies who do it. It’s what has changed in the psychology of today’s victims that has created this new phenomenon and that is that they are the product of a course, artificial and crude culture. To be cliche, guns don’t shoot people, people shoot people. Isn’t it funny how most of the most true things are the simplest? Think about how easy it will be for the next “crazy kid” to just make a bomb using internet instructions and blow up a school. Guns, shmuns. There are always other options for willful, miserable and self-absorbed nut jobs to employ for their instruments of destruction. Anyone who thinks that “gun reform” is the answer is either incapable of common sense or a pawn, or both. How about “rotten, whiny and oh, the world just sucks-kid” reform”? This terrible shooting has already become the spring board for boatloads of activists to dissect, manipulate and screw with our gun laws, once again. Why can’t we all see the truth that is kicking us in the face?

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By: Kim Lane