For the life of me, I can't understand what could
have gone wrong in Littleton, Colorado. If only the parents had kept their children away
from the guns, we wouldn't have had such a tragedy. Yeah, it must have been the guns.
It couldn't have been because of half our children being raised
in broken homes.It couldn't have been because our children get to spend an average of 30
seconds in meaningful conversation with their parents each day. After all, we give our
children quality time.
It couldn't have been because we treat our children as pets and
our pets as children. It couldn't have been because we place our children in day care
centers where they learn their socialization skills among their peers under the law of the
jungle while employees who have no vested interest in the children look on and make sure
that no blood is spilled.
It couldn't have been because we allow our children to
watch, on average, seven hours of television a day filled with the glorification of sex
and violence that isn't fit for adult consumption.
It couldn't have been because we allow (or even encourage) our
children to enter into virtual worlds in which, to win the game, one must kill as many
opponents as possible in the most sadistic way possible.
It couldn't have been because we have sterilized and contracepted
our families down to sizes so small that the children we do have are so spoiled with
material things that they come to equate the receiving of the material with love.
It couldn't have been because our children, who historically have
been seen as a blessing from God, are now being viewed as either a mistake created when
contraception fails or inconveniences that parents try to raise in their spare time.
It couldn't have been because we give two-year prison sentences
to teenagers who kill their newborns.
It couldn't have been because our school systems teach the
children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some
primordial soup of mud . . . .
It couldn't have been because we teach our children that there
are no laws of morality that transcend us, that everything is relative and that actions
don't have consequences. What the heck, the president gets away with it.
Nah, it must have been the guns.
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