Alex, we are in the process of militarizing our border with Mexico:
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And I believe the number of massacres by children this school year is six or eight. I will go find out and report back. Over 6,000 children have been found with guns at school in the last year, which is an astronomical number. Okay, this is from Michael Sphar's post of last night at Rambi:
On Tuesday, a high school senior shot and killed a student in a school parking
lot in Fayetteville, Tenn., three days before they were to graduate, apparently
because they had argued about a girl, authorities said.
On April 24, a 14-year-old boy opened fire at an eighth-grade graduation dance
in Edinboro, Pa., killing a teacher and slightly wounding two students and
another teacher.
On March 24, an 11-year-old boy and his 13-year-old friend opened fire on
classmates in Jonesboro, Ark. Four pupils and a teacher were killed and 10
people wounded.
On Oct. 1, a 16-year-old student in Pearl, Miss., killed his mother, then went to
school and shot nine students, authorities said. Two of them died.
Significantly, it does not even include the shootings at Paducah, Kentucky a few months ago, so it is a very incomplete list.
I will agree with you about getting rid of every gun in America. Shall we start a campaign?
As I said recently at Rambi, our media is violent, but not as violent as the stuff Japanese children are exposed to. Children who are firmly attached to their parents can handle huge amounts of this stuff without becoming violent themselves. So I think that media violence is sort weak as a causative factor. But even if it was very important, how do we put the genie back in the bottle? If we outlawed all violence in the media this moment, we still have many millions of children who have been fully exposed. What do you do about them? |
