Originally posted by rzrbk7777:
The anti-gun folks want this to be about guns but it's not. Guns have been around alot longer than school shootings have been the norm though that seems to be an inconvenient reality that tends to go ignored. The real issues IMHO:
We have raised a bunch of touchy feely kids that believe that they are entitled.
We have slowly removed personal responsibility from the raising of children. We are so careful to avoid letting our youth feel inferior in any way that we don't keep score in youth leagues, everybody gets a particicpation trophy, and everybody gets X amount of playing time. Gone is the notion that talent, work ethic, and desire earns anything. Everybody is equally entitled. This does not prepare kids for the real world. It actually does just the opposite. A common thread among school shooters is that they feel the world they live in has done them wrong, that they have been shafted by society, and that they have been unjustly stuck with the plight they have actually created for themselves. They have been denied one of the most basic lessons in life- For every winner there is also a loser.
And then you feed them with violent rap music, ever more graphic video games in which killing equals winning, and movies that further feed the notion that blood and guts are cool. You remove the moral compass of right and wrong by removing God from society and replacing religion with whatever feels good to you is OK. And then we teach them that if they are unhappy it must be somebody else's fault. A toxic recipe' for disaster.
And now we act shocked at the results. It must be the guns. Well, it's not. It's us, it's the school systems, it's political correctness, it's making everybody a victim that is not a victor. It's raising kids to be ill prepared for a real world in which others are smarter, more gifted, more fortunate, better looking, richer, etc. It is a failure to teach them that sometimes life isn't fair and sometimes when it is fair you still lose. Life is tough and it requires toughness to survive it. We as a society seem to think if we pretend it's not tough it will cease to be tough. That is insane.
When I was in HS in the 70's it wasn't at all uncommon during deer season for kids to show up for school straight from the woods with guns still in the rifle racks of their trucks. We never even thought about it as a threat. These days, when a 6 yo can get suspended for sexual harrassment for telling a teacher she is pretty, we live in constant fear that a kid will snap and shoot up a school at anytime at any school. It wasn't the guns in the 70's and it's not the guns today. It is us.