We need to give them that chance. While I am not one to ask God for favors, I think I can find exception to the rule. This tragedy only reiterates my fears for children today. I don't possess the immediate power to change the system. I believe that this tragedy could have been avoided if we as a society put more emphasis on parental leadership and supervision.
Children look up to their parents as their foremost mentors in life.
Thus, the parents have direct influence on their kids, surpassing all other forms of influence. Only when parents start neglecting their position as their kids' primary counselors do the kids start searching for other places for tutelage. Most of the time when this occurs, kids begin submerging themselves in propaganda pamphlets and Web sites that allow them to escape reality, subsequently metamorphosing them over time into nihilists. Placing metal detectors and assigning security officers at schools, censoring Web sites from children, and enforcing tighter gun control measures may mitigate the recent outbreak of violence seen on school grounds, but it will be only a short-term reprieve. A long-term solution can be found only if we attack the source of teenage violence by emphasizing the importance of parental moral guidance.