A white boy in a middle-class school district opens fire on classmates, this time in Santee, a suburb of San Diego. Teach our children to respect life, says President Bush. Divorce is one possibility.
Research shows strong links between divorce and both youth suicide and youth crime.
But whatever the limitations in the values of his parents, certainly they did not encourage their son to become a cold-blooded killer. Surely that is not what's missing in our children's values education. I'm not going to dislike him just because he killed people. He's not sick in the head like those people from Columbine. He's a nice guy.