evenflow1969
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I am very glad that it worked out that way for you! Unfortunately it has not for me. Two years ago I had two honor roll students, going to the top acadimic school in the state. My wife and I split and they stay with her. Now I have two poorly performing students one who got suspended for a very long time this year, who are now taking internet classes. My son had won a letter in cross country, tract, and basketball. Also was in student governent, top orchastra, top chior and did communitty service. Now he spends two hours a day on line and god knows what he does after. I can not even speak of how things are going for my daughter. So now my 8 thousand dollars a year in real estate taxes are basically being blown. I might as well have a house where I dodge bullets, the school distict now means nothing to me. My ex does not know it yet, but I told her she could stay in the house till lexi graduates, but since she is doing internet school now I am filing to force the sale of the house.My influence has not been stripped..I raised 4 and they listened to me, no one else, until they needed to..We are kindred souls on this subject, my freind. Nothing threatens our country like this issue. When we live in a society where parents have been stripped of all influence, the kids are not going to fair well in adult life.I personally blame the fuck who decided to commit this atrocity and his parents for failing to teach right from wrong. I also blame the courts for making it so easy for our children to misbehave. All your children have to realize is that if you ground them, they can just leave. There realy is nothing you can do. If you smack them, they call the cops send you to jail. You get a domestic violence charge which ruins you in so many ways it is rediculous and they realize they can do what the fuck they want. So what does one do?What is the explanation….seems to be more and more mass killings….
1. Guns???
If guns kill people, I guess pencils misspell words, cars drive drunk, and spoons make people fat.
No….it’s not inanimate objects that are the ultimate cause.
….there were lots of guns in earlier times….the .45 cal handgun was available….it’s called the 1911 because it was developed in 1911…and it has been ubiquitous since World War I.
In the 1990s with a handgun ban in effect, Wash DC had the highest murder rate in Western Civilization, ….and now you can own guns legally, and the homicide rate has declined.
2. Well, there was the St Valentine’s Day Massacre….and the Texas Tower…but, today we have incidents like the school shooting, and I heard on the news that Chicago sends police to funerals, where people are shooting others who they claim caused the the death they were memorializing.
And this….
“6 dead in 'calculated' shooting at backyard party in Pa.”
6 dead in 'calculated' shooting at backyard party in Pa.
It’s practically commonplace today.
But, no… not the availability of guns….it’s the degradation of the culture.
It's something else.....something that didn't begin with the start of this nation.
You hit the nail on the head. I listen to my police scanner all the time. Most of our calls are about kids; many times from the parent.
The single mother does okay with kids until they hit that age. After that, the child (particularly males) will keep crossing the line to see how far he can go. Police calls got so frequent here that our city created an ordinance that anything past three calls to a residence, the home owner gets hit with a bill for police services. Our cops don't have the time or resources to be surrogate fathers for ever single-parent home.
So after the kids learns there are no lines, he does whatever he damn well pleases. Then it bleeds into our school system, and eventually authority. Then they end up dead or in prison.