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.
Why is there so much violence?
Every day in
America, 13 children under the age of 20 are murdered, according to the
Children's Defense Fund. It is evidence of what Princeton professor John J.
DiIulio Jr. has suggested about a "rising tide of super-predators." Studies
made in previous years predicted that by 1998, America would see a
dramatic increase in crimes committed by
juveniles. Well foks, we're beginning to see it!
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).
While FBI reports indicate that violent crime has dropped 4 percent,
juvenile crime has risen. "The increases in violence we're observing are
among very young people and they are very dramatic," said Glenn Pierce, the
director of Northeastern's Center for Applied Social Research. In 1996, nearly
93,000 juveniles were charged in violent crimes -- a number 60 percent higher
than a decade ago. In 1996 alone, more than 2,000 juveniles were charged with
murder.
The Spirit of lawlessness
is breaking out across America. Teenagers have lost all respect for
authority - they are becoming hard-hearted, sensual and violent. And, they are
documenting their own violence with cell phone cameras and
posting the results on YouTube.
The Washington
Post concluded, "While the severity of actions range from simple cheating at
school to pushing drugs, to cold-blooded murders ... the depth of the problem
has reached a point where common decency can no longer be
described as common. Somewhere, somehow ... the traditional value system
got disconnected for a disturbing number of America's next generation."
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A Media Meltdown |
A Survey of Teen Violence
- October 2007: Two teachers and two students were shot at SuccessTech High School in Cleveland, Ohio before shooter, Asa Coon, committed suicide.
- September 2007: Delaware State University student, Loyer Braden, shoots two fellow students, killing one.
April 2007: 33 people
are dead after two separate shootings at Virginia Tech, making it the worst
school shooting in US history. On April 16, 2007, Cho Seung-Hui, a senior in
the English department, who the South Korean Foreign Ministry said had been
living in the United States since 1992, was the only suspect named in
connection with the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history. - March 2005: Jeff Weise stormed into Red Lake High School on a Monday afternoon and shot to death an unarmed guard, a teacher and five students before killing himself. Before the Red Lake shootings, Weise, allegedly shot dead his grandfather and his grandfather's girlfriend at the home he shared with them.
- September 2003: Two students were killed at Rocori High School in Cold Spring Minnesota. Student John Jason McLaughlin, who was 15 at the time, was convicted and currently serving a life sentence in prison.
- October 2002: An angry Tuscon AZ student shot and killed 3 nursing professors after he was not allowed to take an exam.
- A Springfield, MA teacher stabbed in the classroom in Dec. 2001 by an angry student after being told to remove his coat hood during class.
- A 14 yr old Santee CA student kills two students and wounds 13 others including a security guard in March 2001.
- In August, 2000, a Lake Worth, Florida 13 y/o shooter kills teacher in the summer school program.
- A 19 yr old shooter in Savannah, Georgia kills 2 and leaves 1 wounded in March 2000.
- A 7 yr. old 1st grade student in Flint, Michigan shoots and kills another 6yr old.
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, two students in
black trench coats fired guns and set off pipebombs that killed students and
faculty members inside Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. After
mercilessly killing 14 people and wounding 24 others, they turned their weapons
on themselves ending the worst instance of school violence in America. - On April 1, 1999, in Kittrell, North Carolina, twin 11-year-old
boys opened fire in their family's home, killing their father and wounding
their mother and sister.
On May 21, 1998, a 15-year-old-boy
killed his parents at their home and then methodically emptied 51 rounds from a
semiautomatic rifle and a handgun at classmates at Thurston High School in
Springfield, Oregon. Two students died and another 22 were injured.- 200 miles north, in Onalaska, Washington, a 15-year-old boy boarded a school bus with a 9mm pistol in his hand demanding his girlfriend get off the bus with him. He then went home and shot himself in the head.
- On May 19, 1998, Jacob Davis, 18, shot and killed another student in the school parking lot in Fayetteville, Tennessee apparently because they had argued about a girl.
- On April 25, 1998, a 14-year-old-boy fatally shot a teacher and wounded two students at an eighth-grade dance in Edinboro Pennsylvania.
- On March 24, 1998, two students aged 11 and 13, in Jonesboro, Arkansas killed a teacher and four girls as they evacuated Westside Middle School during an apparent fire drill. Nine girls and one other teacher were wounded.
- On December 1, 1997, a 14-year-old student at Heath High School in West Paducah Kentucky walked into his school spraying the school hallway with gunfire, killing three students and wounding five others.
- On October 1, 1997, a 16 year-old student walked into his school expressionless, according to witnesses, and opened fire on schoolmates at Pearl High School in Mississippi, killing at least two people including a former girlfriend and injuring several others. The boy's mother was later found dead of multiple stab wounds. Authorities later accuse six friends of conspiracy, saying the suspects were part of a group that dabbled in satanism.
- In February 1997, a 16-year-old student opens fire with a shotgun in a common area at the Bethel, Alaska, high school killing the school principal, one classmate, and wounding two others.
- In February 1996, a 14-year-old student turned an assault rifle on his algebra class, killing two classmates and a teacher, in the central Washington city of Moses Lake.
- A 15-year-old boy was arrested in rural Jackson Township, N.J., on charges of sexually assaulting and killing an 11-year-old.
- A 16-year-old boy at Detroit's Denby High School was stabbed to death in January, 1996. Demetrius Anderson's death followed by one day the beating of a 16-year-old Pershing High School student with a lead pipe by gang members just off school property. A week prior, a 16-year-old student at Northern High School was shot inside that school. A year previous to that, three students were shot at Denby, Pershing and Redford high schools in three separate incidents in one day.
- In January 1993, 17-year-old Scott Pennington walked into Deanna McDavid's seventh-period English class at East Carter High School in Grayson, Kentucky, and shot her in the head. He then shot janitor Marvin Hicks in the abdomen.
- December 1992: Wayne Lo carried out his shooting rampage at Simon's Rock College of Bard in Massachusetts, killing two and wounding four more. He surrendered to police after his rifle jammed.
- May 1992: Eric Houston, 20, killed four people and wounded 10 in an armed siege at his former high school in Olivehurst, California. Prosecutors said the attack was in retribution for a failing grade.
- In 1992, at Tilden High School in Chicago, Delondyn Lawson, age 15, was killed by two shots from a .22 caliber semi-automatic handgun over the proceeds of a "dice game". Two other students were also wounded in the gunfire.
- November 1991: Gang Lu shot five people to death, seriously wounded another, and then committed suicide at the University of Iowa.
- January 1983: In St. Louis, Missouri, Parkway South Junior High School Eighth-grader, David F. Lawler, shot two of his classmates then turned the gun on himself and committed suicide.
- January 1979: Sixteen-year-old Brenda Ann Spencer used a rifle to wound eight children and one police officer at Cleveland Elementary School in San Diego, and to kill the principal Burton Wragg and the custonian Mike Suchar. Her reason for the shooting she said was because, "I don't like Mondays. This livens up the day."
- In New York City a 16 year-old boy was shot and killed by his 15 year-old best friend. The 15 year-old killed him and then stole the coat and shoes from the corpse. Worst of all, the teenage killer had no feeling of remorse.
- Another 15 year-old boy sprayed bullets around the parking lot of a convenience store, killing a teenage boy. When questioned later, he had not even a tinge of guilt or sorrow. Instead, he displayed hatred and a desire to do it all over again if he had the opportunity. He had no remorse whatsoever.
- 14-year-old Marcy Conrad of Milpitas, California, had been raped, strangled to death, and left lying off the road in the hills outside of town. According to the local paper, at least 13 students went out to look at her body. One girl picked up the murdered girl's jeans, cut off a patch, and threw the jeans down along the side of the road. One student tried to cover the body with leaves. Another took his eight-year-old brother along to see the body. One boy went twice. Those who saw the body went back to class or to the pinball arcade. One went home to bed. Another student said he only cared about collecting the marijuana cigarette he had won on a bet that the body was real. As the newspaper reported: "The shock is the shock of the of the encounter with icy indifference, the indifference of the kids in the first instance, but much more importantly, of the culture that produced them... The depersonalization did not begin yesterday; it is not unique to this moment, yet it seems more complete - and they seem more alienated and isolated - than we have ever known before."
Twenty percent of suburban high schoolers surveyed by Tulane
University researchers thought it was appropriate to shoot someone "who has
stolen something from you." Eight percent believed it is all right to shoot a
person who had "done something to offend or insult you."
Time
magazine called it a "deadly love affair," while Newsweek said it was a
"virtual epidemic" sweeping our nation. They are talking about young people and
guns, and this is one of the deadliest trends in America today. The Justice
Department has issued reports showing that each day more than a hundred
thousand children come to school with guns and knives. A University of Michigan
study reports that 9 percent of eighth-graders carry a gun, knife or club to
school at least once a month. In all, an estimated 270,000 guns go to school
every day. U.S. News and World Report estimated that there are more than three
million crimes committed in the public schools every year. That amounts to more
than seventeen thousand crimes every single day. There are two thousand cases
each month where teachers are assaulted or raped.
What kind of despair drives children to this kind of violence?
Newsweek devoted its January 10, 1994 cover story to the disturbing
topic "Growing Up Scared: How Our Kids Are Robbed of Their
Childhood." In graphic terms, the article described the violent
environment in which this generation of children is being raised. Some of them
live in a combat zone. A child is 15 times more likely to be shot in the United
States than in Northern Ireland. More American children are shot per year than
are police officers. Parents in some inner-city neighborhoods make their kids
sleep in bathtubs to protect them from stray bullets crashing through the
walls. Some mothers keep short leashes on their little ones when walking
through malls to protect them from potential molesters. Instruction is given to
wide-eyed preschoolers on how to scream when approached by a stranger, and how
to report unwelcome touches. Many children spend their after-school hours
behind bolted doors and barred windows.
Riddled with gang violence,
many of our inner cities have become powder kegs portending future collapse.
Today, young people think about death and dying more than any other subject. In
fact, surveys indicate they think about death even more than they think about
the opposite sex. The demise of the traditional family and absence of religion
have combined to create a culture of children who are morally retarded. In the
wake of this, our Politically Correct society offers young people no consistent
arguments against violence.
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. 