Pop23
Gold Member
this whole gun thing makes me wanna howl at the moon. a long, doleful, piercing cry for a wealthy country that can do better for its children...for my children...but appears to have settled on a pain threshold that is morally unacceptable!
Who has?
2/3rds of those deaths are Suicide. Society doesn't make those decisions, the individual does, and a gun is not a requirement in those deaths.
80% of the rest are gang related. Preach that to the gangs and their families. Society has tried and it falls on deaf ears.
A good number of the rest are domestics and a lot of that violence has to do with drug use.
There are a few others, and some involve kids, but how about we start raising our children better, not pressuring them to excel at an early age so those that fall behind, or can't afford tutors, and fall behind aren't treated like outcasts.
And maybe, just maybe, not thinking every kid that acts up a bit has a disability and quit putting them on brain altering drugs when they have yet to have fully developed brains in the first place.
I hear exactly what your saying, but it's just as simple as locking up criminals for long periods of time and getting our kids off of prescription drugs that turn some into monsters.
my 2 cents