- And where are the responsable parents to stop those children seeing violent stuff, or where is the right education to make them understand that violence? Now maybe there’s a real problem. Because in EU children see the same violence (the censorship in Europe is much more soft), and still we don’t have such problems with such intensity.

And Jay… You seem against the “no-weapon-policy” but you seem to go for censorship? “Weapons are not guilty - the media is”…come on.. Don’t you people see what is happening to your country? How more the bodycounts have to raise in shootings for people want to give a try for another policy other then that old one that is proving to be a failure - at least for those victims and their families.. It’s right: it is people who kill people, but give them the right weaponry and they transform a probable incident or even homicide into a genocide… there’s about sixteen probable killings inside a weapon that is in the hand of psycho.. And “good” “regular” people are not soldiers - you will never have a society where everyone sees someone pulling out of a gun, shooting someone else and suddently two civilians point him a gun screaming: freeeze! and shoot him if he doesn’t stops.. Who wants to live in that way? Wouldn’t it be better if that “shooter” just didn’t had a gun? Probably he would think twice, probably people could run, probably responsable agents of the law could gain more time to get there before it would become a bloodshed..

Besides who will ever be able to say who can really carry a weapon or not? Even a “regular” guy has is own rage moments… having a gun around just makes it easier..

As I said above. You just sound like you all live in fear - otherwise you wouldn’t carry a gun..

People who are against guns just use this very tragic and grotesque incident and the drama portrayed on Television as a platform to start their anti-gun campaign up again.

Here is where the problem lays:
• Responsibility – we are responsible to our children. To provide them with the best tools and principles to live a good life. The government is responsible to ALL U.S. CITIZENS. They have to be held responsible when the programs, services, etc they govern do not work or fail to protect the people that foot the bill. We can afford to pay TRILLIONS of dollars in a war, but can’t get the proper protection for our children in school? The reason: there is no ROI (Return on investment) as far as the government is concerned. Our own children are overlooked to a war that is misleading, poorly planned and reminiscent of Vietnam.
• Teenage Parents – kids having kids, trying to raise children with no help. Kids are left to figure things out for themselves, both as parents and child.
• Punk kids afraid to take a butt whoopin – so many kids today are so afraid to take a beating and lose a fist fight, in fear of what their peers might think. So they take it to the next level to “win” the situation and avoid getting beat up only to take a defense of:
o My parents beat me
o I am only a kid
o Whatever other excuses they can find to make people feel sorry for them. I am not one of those people!
This falls into the responsibility category as well. You did the crime, you do the time. Take responsibility for your actions regardless of how you were raised, what you were taught, who influenced you. This is how you weed them out.
• Media – be it computer games, console games, song lyrics, music videos, all the things that kids are attracted to and exposed to as young adults, even the content of the nightly news, kids at a very early age are exposed to sites and sounds that make lasting impressions on their personality and character. Media companies should be held accountable for airing information OVER AND OVER. Even though they don’t think it does, this promotes what happens and encourages others to follow suite. I believe the copy cat incidents from Columbine H.S., 9/11, and Virginia Tech incidents are a result of the overkill of news coverage. Report the day’s news and let it go! I believe ALL news reporting agencies should be restructured and NOT driven by newspaper sales, TV exposure, technological advances, etc as this creates an environment that is hostile and misleading to the very people it provides these services to. As I sit here writing this, there is a picture of “Cho” on TV. Almost a week later, they are still stating what happened and going over it…AGAIN!
• Parenting – what is right? What is wrong? What is proven to work? Get the government to spend money on children profiling and showing the people who are footing the bill, the best techniques and practices for raising children. Parents should pay closer attention to what they expose their children to. Quit worrying about keeping up with the Jones’ and yourselves, and pay closer attention to your kids.
• Dinner at the dinner table – it doesn’t happen as much as it should. This is where you learn most about your kids. A time to reflect on the events of the day and to find out the mood, moral, feelings of the people that are close to you and to provide advice (that you learned from the governments programs as well as your own experience) to the ones you love.
• Drugs – do I really need to even go here? There are more drugs available, and more drug dealers dealing than ever before. I think our government allows these drugs to come into the country and to be distributed to our kids as a means of sedating our opinions. Keeping the masses at bay. Nobody stands up against the cartels, pharmaceutical companies, drug dealers, etc. If millions of people are drugged up and in a state of mind where they are incapable of interacting with the world, they will not be voting and hence, we do not have to worry about them. The problem is, most of these people are poor to begin with, so this mentality, by definition, targets the lowest income families. Consequently, this promotes the WHOLE VICIOUS CYCLE all over again.

There are many more reasons. These are just off the top of my head. If we sit idly by and allow all this to happen, we are victims of our own doing. I can’t see how Americans just allow our money to be thrown away for a war brought on by false intelligence, misleading information and based on oil and profit. Put that money to work for the infrastructure of our own country. Take care of things at home before you go trying to fix everyone elses problems!

Just my 2 cents…