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.
Kids learn from our example.
I can't help but be astounded that the National Rifle Association members and their apologists continue to rationalize virtually unlimited gun possession in the wake of tragedies such as that at Littleton, Colo., and other recent school shootings. Well, they're right. It's people using guns that kills people. I wonder how those gun advocates can sleep nights knowing that their pressure tactics in Congress and state legislatures are making it possible for children such as those in Colorado to massacre so many innocent people. Our children hear many words.