People Still Do Not Get It

This article is in response to Mary Dolan’s guest comment (March 30^th) in the Star Democrat. While I do agree with her about there is a problem with fire arms in this country I disagree that school children are the ones to handle it. We read several articles in different papers and on the news channels about kids protesting gun violence at their schools, the capital, and other places. For the most part these are the same kids we read about in the papers and across in the news media that were eating Tide-Pods and the government wanting to solve that problem by changing how the product was packaged. How many of these kids even know what they are protesting. How many of them can even tell you what the constitution is and what it is for. How many can tell you if we live in a republic or a democracy.  I am sure some can, but not that many. We have violence all across our nation in many different forms. We always want to blame the problems of our country on everything but the true cause, In other words the root of the problem. The problem really goes back to the same kids that are protesting, maybe not all of them but the biggest majority of them. The problem is how they are raised.

To make this country great there must be building blocks and a good foundation. The foundation of any nation is the family unit. The family unit has kids raising their own self and that is not the way it should be. They need structure, guidance, and being taught right from wrong. You can have all the Great Societies you want but without a family structure, and a good foundation it will amount to nothing. We have so many violent video games today that are front line examples why some kids do what they do. Hollywood does not help much either.

More kids die today from drugs, texting while driving, and alcohol than from these school shootings but it is only when guns are brought into the mix is there mass protest. What about the bullying problem in our schools today. It is a problem, but it is a well hid problem. But it is there. It is foolish for anyone to think that drugs, guns, cell phones and cars are the problem. It is the adult, teenager, or young person who is behind those things that is the problem. To prove the point let us look at it this way. A person left his shotgun on his porch, the mailman delivered the mail, kids were in the street playing, the garbage truck picked up the trash, and no one got shot. The gun was still sitting on the porch. Or how about this, a teenager was driving down the road with cell phone on the seat not being used and no one was killed or injured.

Why is there no protesting the FBI for not acting on reports they received about the shooter at the Florida school, the sheriff department who received 39 calls over a period of time about the same shooter, and the most scary is the school system that know who and what this kid was and did nothing over the years to help him, finally expelling him. The whole problem and event should have been investigated before the fact not after the fact.

My thoughts are there is more behind the protests by these teenagers than meets the eye. A person must wonder is there some other reason behind all this and are the teenagers just being used. To set the record straight from the start I do not own any guns, I do not belong to the NRA, and I am not a Republican or Democrat. I am a independent person that can think for myself.