Hey, this is great. I disagree with everyone!!!
Well-it isn't that I disagree. It's that I think you're both trying to put Neosporin on various cancerous lesions while the cancer rages unchecked in the bloodstream. Take the guns away? The despair, hatred, lack of hope, will find another outlet. Demand Hollywood have a conscience? What then explains why the majority of children grow up with Wily Coyote and Terminator and have no problem with antisocial behavior (And I cite Ammo as a perfect example despite his suggestive nickname)?
I think Christine is closer to the truth with her mention of dysfunctional families but they, too, are the result of some deeper disease and I don't believe that pouring more money into the social programs as they now exist is the answer either. Parents, both rich and poor, seem to have lost sight of the fact that children demand total commitment and often the subjugation of the parents' personal desires---whether it is for the 500,000 home and BMW or for drugs and some relief from the poverty that surrounds them. Children need models and guidance and morals and hope. And these have to be taught at home. I hate to sound as if I'm a member of the Christian Coalition-(God forbid-heehee) but our society seems to have fallen into some hopeless, despairing pit without personal morality or decency, self-control or generosity. Misuse of guns, violent movies, drugs, and Bill Clinton are only the visible exudations of our malaise. |
