It's becoming all too common: Children killing children at school.
Americans, fed by the liberal media continue to grapple with why
these young teens can turn from "just a normal kid" to a cold blooded murderer.
With each tragedy it seems everyone keeps asking the same question... why?
And they never seem to figure it out. They simply don't have a clue as to
what is going on around them? Sadly, when the shock wears off after a few days
or weeks, most Americans simply stick their heads back into the sand leaving
the problem with liberal social engineers and socialist lawmakers.
Tune in to the TV talk shows or listen to the news casts and it sounds like
everyone has an opinion, but few are willing to offer any kind of reliable
answer. Barbara Walters justs sits dumbfounded and empty-headed as she reads
from the teleprompter about the latest killing. But she has no idea what's
going on. Geraldo Rivera asks, “where do these kids get the idea that life
is cheap?” Is he kidding -- does he really not know?
Virginia
Tech President, Dr Charles Steger, said following what the media is calling the
deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history, "I'm really at a loss for
words to explain or to understand the carnage that has visited our campus."
School administrators don't have a clue and the mainstream media certainly
doesn't have a clue. They all simply refuse to address
the real problems for fear of offending someone, losing grant money, or
losing advertising revenues.
A Liberal Thought
...
Criminals are not responsible for their behaviors if
they are: (A) poor (B) from a broken, dysfunctional family
(C) disadvantaged minorities.
You hear all the same liberal
arguments: blame, blame, blame. Many blame the availability of guns as being
the cause, or Hollywood for their production of violent movies, or violent
video games, while others are quick to blame the parents or grandparents.
Social scientists join in the chorus with their blame of society and the
environment children are raised in. Others blame school funding cutbacks saying
we've failed because we haven't provided enough money for Head Start, midnight
basketball, and other programs. I'm surprised no one has yet blamed tobacco.
Liberal TV talk show host Larry King
brought together on his program April 20th. following the shootings in
Littleton, Colorado a cadre of liberal spokespersons spewing forth their
illogic and innane arguments. CBS newman, Ed Bradley, suggested that maybe we
are seeing so much more violence in middle class suburbia USA rather than in
lower class inner cities because there are more guns in suburbia than in the
inner city. Maryland Leutenant Governor, Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, suggested
the killings in Littleton Colorado might have been prevented if the guns had
childproof triggers. Handgun contol advocate, Sara Brady, asked why do students
have access to guns and why aren't they childproofed?
Can you believe
that nonsense? More guns in suburban America compared with the inner cities?
Yeah, right! Bradley would expect me to be safer in the inner city rather than
in suburban America! Sara Brady generally advocates handgun control, but it
didn't make a difference to her that automatic rifles, shotguns, and pipe bombs
were involved in the Colorado incident. But the stupidist comment was made by
Kathleen Townsend when she suggested childproof triggers on the assault rifles
and pipe bombs used in Colorado.
It's the same old arguments they have
been making for years and the same lame arguments they have used to fund their
liberal social policies that have clearly failed miserably as they march
forward in convincing the American public of the value of Socialism. President
Clinton calls it an "angry wake-up call," then orders Attorney General Janet
Reno and Education Secretary Richard Riley to oversee the nation's first annual
report on school violence (sort of like having the fox look out for the
chickens). They continue to convene their "panel of experts" to study ways to
prevent this from happening again. But, the violence only escalates!
Surely these kids had access to "midnight basketball," after-school
programs, mental health counseling, and student problem solving courses. And,
didn't some of Clinton's 10,000 new cops on the street make it to their towns?
No doubt they read the handbook produced by the Justice Department and
Education Department. Surely they have a "zero-tolerance" policy for guns in school. After all,
we do have the Gun-Free Schools Act of 1994 to rely on, don't we? Didn't
Americans give up many constitutional freedoms in exchnage for more security
when Brady Bill was touted as the solution to gun violence.
Their
liberal and socialist programs are putting our children in their graves.
Since these liberals have put into effect their socialist programs there
continues to be incidents where violent children in our PUBLIC schools
(not private or religious) have taken out their anger by murdering their fellow
students, teachers, and parents. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to see that
their porgrams DON'T WORK! The shooters in Columbine High School
violated numerous laws already on the books.
What is clear is that none of these people have any idea of what is
going on and are left asking over and over again...
Why?
They
seem to be so busy studying the problem, they simply can't see (or refuse to
see) what is clearly before them.
And,
why don't they see it? Because as the Bible says,
The way of peace they do not know; there is no
justice in their paths. They have turned them into crooked roads; no one who
walks in them will know peace. So justice is far from us, and righteousness
does not reach us. We look for light, but all is darkness; for brightness, but
we walk in deep shadows. Like the blind we grope along the wall, feeling our
way like men without eyes. At midday we stumble as if it were twilight; among
the strong, we are like the dead. We all growl like bears; we moan mournfully
like doves. We look for justice, but find none; for deliverance, but it is far
away. For our offenses are many in your sight, and our sins testify against us.
Our offenses are ever with us, and we acknowledge our iniquities: rebellion and
treachery against the LORD, turning our backs on our God, fomenting oppression
and revolt, uttering lies our hearts have conceived. So justice is driven back,
and righteousness stands at a distance; truth has stumbled in the streets,
honesty cannot enter. Truth is nowhere to be found, and whoever shuns evil
becomes a prey.
(Isaiah 59:8-15)
President Clinton quoted St. Paul saying,
For now we see through a glass, darkly [1 Cor. 13:12]
Yes, Mr. Clinton, and our glass is getting darker every day thanks to you and your cronies! When will America wake up and do what needs to be done "for the children?" I would suggest to Mr. Clinton and his followers that the next time they want to go to the Bible for material for their speeches, they try II Chronicles 7:14.
The violence in our schools is not surprising! It is the result of the seeds godless liberals have sown for years. It has it's roots in no-fault divorce laws and the legalization of baby killing with the Roe v. Wade decision. It's part of a continuing increase of violence and disrespect for human life among the youth of this nation.
And, it's not over
yet.
Thanks to years of selfishness and namby-pamby lawmaking, the
environment in which children are being raised has changed dramatically,
creating new anxieties for mothers and fathers. Unspeakable dangers haunt our
schools and streets that were almost unheard of a generation ago. Yesterday's
families didn't worry much about drive-by shootings, illegal drugs, sexual
molesters and kidnappers.
When I was a child, my folks were more
concerned about a disease called polio than all sources of violence combined.
In my adolescent years I moved about freely and played without worry. If I was
a half-hour late coming home for dinner, my family was not seized by panic. Now
we worry about our kids playing in the front yard.
Pastor Joe Martin
of Toledo, Washington (about 40 miles southwest of Onalaska) said, "This kind
of violence is not some kind of fluke. It's a symptom of a deeper cultural
vacuum in young people who lack a moral compass. These kids are dealing with
emotional trauma that people in their mid-20s have a hard time with. In their
emotional landscape, breaking up with a girlfriend or boyfriend is tantamount
to a divorce. If they don't have any spiritual moorings, if they don't have
some restraint in their lives, they become not only unraveled but they resort
to the lowest common denominator, which is violent aggressive acts. Culturally,
we're living in the wake of a 50-year social experiment with letting children
make their own decisions, and it's not paying off very well." (cited in Dr. Billy James Hargis, "Why are U.S. schools wracked with
gunfire?," Christian Crusade, June 1998).
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A Media Meltdown |
The Liberal
Response to Violence
So what is a liberals response to this
increase of violence? President Clinton ordered his Cabinet to find ways to put
more police officers in schools. President Clinton orders the Justice
Department and Education Department to study the problem and they produced a
handbook that schools were suggested to follow. They erect metal detectors at
the school doors, ban trench coats, perform body searches of students, bring in
more police to patrol the halls, and further enhance the environment of
distrust and violence. If kids are caught with guns: any kind of guns (toy
guns, plastic guns, squirt guns, or real guns) they are expelled. They hand out
more condoms, send kids to immoral sex-education courses, conflict resolution
courses, give them the address of the local abortionist, and subject them to
mind-numbing behavior modification experiments. If the parents are
uncooperative in this socialist agenda, the child is taken away from them and
sent to live in a youth facility or foster home.
Some say we need more
laws to protect our children. Yet, we already have laws against students
carrying guns to school, and the crime continues. Existing laws didn't stop
Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold from obtaining the weapons needed for their
killing spree. Despite laws to the contrary, 16.6 percent of the students in
one study of 10,909 7th, 9th and 11th graders in a Virginia suburban school
district said they had carried a gun to school during the past 30 days. In
another survey by "Who's Who Among American High School Students", researchers
found that 40% of the respondents reported that they knew of violent incidents
that had occurred in their schools. Almost half of the male students
interviewed said that they knew of someone who had brought a weapon to school.
In a classic liberal move, they point the blame at others, and in
today's "it takes a village" environment, who better to blame than parents.
Clinton and others in Congress want to impose penalties on gun owners when
juveniles get hold of their guns and use them against another person, show them
in a public place, or take one to school. On July 8, 1998, President Clinton
paraded before the television cameras, Suzann Wilson, the mother of an
11-year-old student who was killed in the March 24 school shootings in
Jonesboro, Ark. who echoed the Clinton'ese doublespeak, "do it for the
children."
Others, point to the need to ban guns entirely. They
figure that if guns were not available, these crimes would not be committed.
They are quick to point to statistics that support their contention. For
example, four times as many juveniles were arrested for homicide with a handgun
in 1994 than in 1984. In fact, homicides without handguns remained the same
during that period. If guns aren't available a would be murderer will only find
another weapon as was the case with the stabbing death of Luke Woodham's mother
in Pearl Mississippi and the 16-year-old student stabbed to death in
Detroit.
There are many other social and economic reasons for a young mind to
irrationally attack and destroy when pushed over the edge, but the focused
attention created by the media for an over the edge response of promoted choice
is clear to all. 
