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Pastimes : WHY?? Littleton Colorado -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mr. Rhino who wrote (27)	4/22/1999 12:51:00 AM
From: William Puget	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 368

I remember a television commercial with David Hyde-Pierce saying that families needed to sit around the dinner table together even just once a week. I bet a lot of families don't do that. I mean really sit around the table with each other. I am convinced that those boys parents did not spend enough time with them. How did they manage to make 30 bombs. I know my 16 year-old son, and I would know if he was up to no good. He can't lie to me. He doesn't have it in him. We have a relationship that could not accept that. I bet those boys did not have a relationship like that with thier parents. I'm not bragging about my kid, just thinking aloud. I am as mystifed as anyone and hurt and also scared - for our society. I don't think it could happen here north of 49 as we don't have that insane fixation on guns that seems to exist down south. Imagine next week the NRA is meeting in Denver. WOW. WP

To: Mr. Rhino who wrote (27)	4/22/1999 10:21:00 AM
From: Tom Smith	Respond to of 368

The search for reasons -- the internet? TV? movies? music? busy parents? corporate sprawl? the NRA? Sorry folks, but feelings of disaffection among young people have existed for as long as there have been young people. NONE of the easy answers really explains this phenomenon. If you want to explain this tragedy to your children, I suggest you read to them Mark Twain's classic story The Adventures of Tom Sawyer. Here is an excerpt from the beginning of Chapter 13 which is especially chilling given the events in Littleton: "Tom's mind was made up now. He was gloomy and desperate. He was a forsaken, friendless boy, he said; nobody loved him; when they found out what they had driven him to, perhaps they would be sorry; he had tried to do right and get along, but they would not let him; since nothing would do them but to be rid of him, let it be so; and let them blame him for the consequences -- why shouldn't they? What right had the friendless to complain? Yes, they had forced him to it at last: he would lead a life of crime. There was no choice." This book was written in 1876! Mark Twain grew up in a small town within a close-knit family, and he never heard of Marilyn Manson or the NRA or Wal*Mart. You can read the entire book here. etext.virginia.edu Tom