It just keeps happening over and over. Many times we youth look to the adults around us to help us solve many of our problems. Maybe adults should begin looking toward youth to begin solving these serious problems. Youth groups, like The Earth Angels teach a lot about problem solving, conflict resolution and the need for cooperation. Perhaps adults should take classes like this or practice conflict resolution, if they know how, we might see violence go down.
Parents also have to stop violence in their own households and teach their children to be peaceful.
Our elected officials also need to help out by passing good gun control laws. We know some people feel the need to have a gun to protect themselves or to hunt, but it doesn't take a semi-automatic, or twenty guns, to protect your home or to hunt, unless you are engaged in violence or some other illegal activity. This is a new millennium and it is our hope that there will be no need for The Earth Angels to continue planting a Forest of Life. Instead we would like to plant a Forest of Peace. The Earth Angels have a new motto by which we would like to live.