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Originally Posted by Al Swearengen
It all starts at home. Parents need to instill in their children a healthy respect for other people, and other people's feelings, and life in general. Schools can be brutal places, and its rarely the school's staff that make them that way. Its other children and the high drama they create. From perhaps the second grade on thru highschool, schools are just big popularity contests, just dog and pony shows. We've all heard the cliche "kids can be cruel"..well, theres a good reason why its a cliche...its all too true. Think back to when you were in school...I'm sure we can all remember when other people gave a damn about what brand of shoes or jeans we were sporting. It was the norm for rude comments about someone's appearance to be made without a care as to how it would make that person feel. And if we're honest with ourselves, we'll have to admit to having been on both the sending and receiving end of these remarks. And then theres the outright physical violence. These are the kinds of things that wont fly in the adult world, because in the adult world people are killed when there are physical assaults, and even as a result of insults and slights. Why should the children's world be any different? They're even less well-equipped to deal with this sort of stress than adults are. Children are certainly exposed to this sort of thing much more often than adults, so is it any wonder that a certain percentage of them get fed up with it and decided to waste their tormentors, and then themselves? When you're a child and life sucks, things seem pretty hopeless because you tend to perceive and react to stressfull situations all out of proportion to reality. But where does the meanness and cruelty come from? If your kid is a mean little bastard of a bully, its a pretty good indication that you dropped the ball somewhere as a parent. You either taught them wrong or you didn't teach them right. In many cases, parents view such things as sort of a right-o-passage..."I came thru it in one piece, so will you"...or "the world is a harsh place, best you learn that now". So, lets start teaching our children how to be considerate and courteous and feel compassion for others as early as possible...some bible study wouldn't go amiss either.
Now, something else that really bothers me is that when some of these guys snap and decide to start killing people, they use guns. I cringe every time this happens, because it just gives the anti-gun lobby more "ammuntion" to use in their single-minded quest to disarm the lawfully armed public. We wouldn't hear a damn peep out of them if the killers used bows and arrows, baseball bats or knives.
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This nation was built on values that started at home with the big ten
laws and the family. Now we have in America and other countries the
"step family" . The ACLU has removed much of what the great nation
was built on. You go AL !