For the life of me,
I can't understand what could have gone wrong in Littleton, Colo. 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 are 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 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 teen-agers 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.