- Introducing Gwen, originally from Lancaster, PA, now living in Washington, DC.
- Oy, a typical Jewish mother who misses her daughter
- Another school shooting only a few days since the one in California
- Today’s horoscope: Your renewed drive could lead you to take risks that will have positive results in the long run.
Reading that story about the school shooting, I honestly felt like I was going to vomit. I can’t believe this kind of stuff keeps happening……
I don’t know why these kid’s think shooting people will solve there problem’s. When are they going to learn. Did you hear about a 17yr. old girl who hid her pregnancy from her mother and then fed the 2 day old baby to some dog’s. This is a sick world and these people need help!!!!!
That’s exactly it. These kids DO need help. Instead of arguing about gun control and who’s to blame, we need to figure out how to get these isolated, disengaged kids involved and invested in something in their schools. These kids who are bringing guns to school aren’t the kids on the tennis team, or in band, or in the fall play. They’re the kids who have very little attachment to anything in their schools…I think it would take much less effort to get kids involved in school activities than it would to lobby for gun control, or to teach parents how to better raise their children, or any of the other things that most people seem to be focusing on right now. Installing metal detectors in the schools isn’t going to help the Dylan Klebold’s of the world feel more connected to and invested in society.
But Alissa gun control is a major issue as well. Being Canadian I have only actually heard of one incident where there has been a shooting at a high school. This is just because kids don’t have as ready access to guns in Canada as they do in the states. I totally agree that another concern is that these kids who bring guns to school have slipped through the cracks and in a lot of cases the warning signs have been ignored. I’m not saying that school shootings aren’t likely to occur in Canada I am just saying it is less likely because of our gun control laws.
We have gun control laws. There are something like 20,000 gun control laws on the books. The kids who killed at Columbine broke somewhere around 17 of them. Does Canada have a law that will work better than the 20,000 we already have? I’m not saying that gun control isn’t important. I’m all for gun control. I don’t think the people who wrote “the right to bear arms” into our history had kids bringing guns into schools in mind when they wrote it. What I’m saying is that it doesn’t work. It’s like preaching to the choir. The responsible citizens out there who will follow the laws aren’t the people who are causing the problems. You can write all the laws you want on gun control, but the fact is that there are already millions of guns out there that you can’t get rid of. I’m not saying it’s a bad idea. I just don’t think it’s the answer. Idealistically, sure. If everyone who owned a gun, or wanted to purchase a gun, followed the laws surrounding them, we wouldn’t have a problem. But writing laws and having people follow them are two different things. A person who is willing to bring a gun to school and start shooting classmates probably doesn’t give a damn about what other laws he (or as in the case of yesterday’s incident, she) is breaking.