I agree that those are serious issues that need to be addressed, but it is doubtful that any of them apply in the Newtown case. By all reports Adam Lanza had very loving, but strict, parents who did all they could do to give him the care and love he needed. Even allowing him access to the guns was done, according to his mother's friends, to teach him discipline and respect for property. Unfortunately, in his case, that was a bad choice. But she could not have known that.
If you wanna place blame for Newtown, place it on the pharmaceutical company that marketed a drug known to cause violence and delusional thinking and the doctor who gave it to a young man who was already severely disturbed. On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Jerry Barnes <critic...@gmail.com> wrote: When I wrote that, I was thinking about this young man who committed this > atrocity and what led to his actions. Religion never crossed my mind, but > it was the changes in our society. Again, the lack of personal > accountability, the lack of parents holding children accountable, the > refusal of teachers and parents to tell a child he or she is wrong, the > craziness of people blaming others for all their own problems, the instant > gratification state of the nation making citizens unwilling to wait or work > towards a goal, the pure selfishness that is exuded in all facets of > society, the inability of people to lose with dignity, the lack of respect > by adolescents for adults, superiors, and parents, the willingness of so > many to not honor commitments, and so on. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:359511 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
