> > Paul Harvey read this on his radio show.
> >
> > For the life of me, I can’t understand what could have gone wrong
> > with all the shootings in schools. 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 an
> > 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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