-Caveat Lector- Dear Congress: As the mother of a murdered child, and as an intelligent person I find the President's exploiting of the school shootings highly offensive. My child was murdered with a fence post by a recidivist juvenile on probation. I see no one calling for a ban on fence posts. Eight year old Cary Medlin, of Greenfield, TN after being raped and sodomized was murdered with a knife, eight year old Niki Read of Millington, TN after being raped was murdered with her own shoelace. I see no one calling for a ban on those items, yet they were used to murder small children. On my desk sit eleven petitions of convicted killers seeking early parole. Five of those Loved Ones were murdered with weapons other than guns. Following the President's logic then we need a three day waiting period, a background check and a license to rent violent movies, video games, watch a violent show on TV, purchase a kitchen knife, screwdriver, hammer, pipe wrench, pool cues, etc. We need to force every one thinking about becoming a parent to take parenting classes and obtain a license before they can have a child. We have more gun laws on the books than Carter has liver pills, yet people of all ages continue to murder others. First Degree murderers serve on average 5.6 years in prison. It takes 15-20 years to get a convicted killer executed. The courts excuse the accused felon because they say 'I had a bad childhood' and give them lighter sentences for murder because they had supposed bad childhood's. Many people have bad childhood's yet they don't go out and kill. For Juveniles who get into trouble there are two choices; probation or a juvenile facility. There is no in between. Probation cost a couple of bucks a day, a juvenile facility cost three times what it does to house an adult inmate. So we incarcerate very few juveniles. We simply wait until they commit their first adult offense to incarcerate them. Then we incarcerate the felons in "country club resorts." And send our children into un-airconditioned crumbling down city schools. Why not reverse this scenario and give the children country club schools and the criminals un-airconditioned and stark prisons? Schools are our children's' "work place" yet many are unfit to house a criminal in. Then you have the child shrinks who keep telling us we will damage our children if we tell them no, or dare to impose restraints on them. The government then backs the shrinks up by tying the hands of the parents behind their backs. If we dare to spank, or impose restrictions on a child we are considered child abusers. Mrs. Clinton said recently: "The constant exposure to violence on TV, in the movies, on video games, in music--there's much to much evidence that children get desensitized...There's so much of it. We're awash in it..We can no longer shut our eyes to the impact the media is having on all our children, and the potentially violent impact it is having on some of them." I agree with her on that statement are children are bombarded with violent images from the entertainment industry from the moment they turn on the TV to the time they turn it off. Then she goes on to say in the same speech. We need to stand up and say what need to be said about guns and firearms." UH? she said it is the entertainment industries fault for all those violent images our children are watching, yet we should have to have more gun control? This is illogical. I see no one calling for restrictions on the First Amendment rights of Hollywood. I see no one besides myself calling for a return of the original 1940s standards on morals and violence on TV between the viewing hours of 7 AM and 8 PM so impressionable children won't be bombarded with the violence and immoral behavior so prevalent on TV today. The adult cartoons are especially offensive in immoral and violent content. Children are addicted to cartoons. Why are adult cartoons on TV during Prime Time? If you look at the school shootings they mirror Hollywood's penchant that each new movie must be more spectacular and more violent than the last. The Columbine High School shooting has elements of all the other school shootings and the Oklahoma City Bombing all rolled into one event. More gun control will not change the hearts of those set to do evil. Even if all guns in America were destroyed, those who have their hearts set on doing evil will do it anyway. More gun control will not deter one murder. Less violence produced by the entertainment industry would help as movies, TV and video games are a form of brain washing. Are you going to impose VIOLENCE CONTROL on the entertainment industry too? Written reply requested. Gail Keasling ***** Please visit this mothers web site. http://members.aol.com/Gail5227/index.html ***** DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory', with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credeence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. 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