Who was this kid trying to impress? The daughter of a friend is a kindergarten teacher (not around here). One day one of her students brought a knife to school. The principal confiscated the knife and returned the boy to class. The child”s mother has stated when he gets in trouble, do not call her, and do not send him to alternative school. This boy is crying for help, and no one is hearing him, least of all his mother. Where is his father? Odds are he”s not at home.
When I was a child, we boys often brought cap guns to school and played cowboys and Indians, bank robbers and sheriffs and other games. None of us grew up to be criminals. In high school, our senior class play was about a dude ranch. We needed some guns for props. Somebody brought some single-action “Western-style” revolvers, a double-barrel shotgun, and one person even brought a “Civil War” era Sharp”s carbine, now worth hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
Nobody even thought of shells or shooting the guns. They were left in the prop room for weeks until the play was over and nobody even thought of stealing them. That was then and there, and this is here and now.
Intolerance has led to an increase in problems instead of ending them. Too many people are having children when they aren”t prepared mentally, emotionally, or financially to be parents. But, as long as the “government” (aka taxpayers) are paying unwed women and men to breed, this problem will only grow worse. To solve any problem, you must get to the root, not half-way, but all the way down, and you must not be afraid to face the facts and then do what is right.
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