The chilling reality of what we ve learned from these video tapes is that these are the kids next door. No simple answers work here.
Many different influences conspire to turn our kids into killers.
We must do a better job of parenting our children, stopping the flood of dehumanizing violence that invades their minds, improving enforcement of laws designed to keep guns out of the hands of children, and pursuing technology that would only allow a gun s owner to fire the weapon, McCain said. We must take a thoughtful, comprehensive approach to understand how these various influences affect our children and that is exactly what this commission is designed to do. These tapes may be the most powerful evidence yet of just how complicated this problem is, of how difficult it is to discern exactly what is in this toxic mix that is turning kids into killers, Lieberman said. And they should remind us of just how critical it is to get past the politics and the safe assumptions and start a serious, thorough, and objective examination of these horrific massacres. The American people are desperate for answers, to understand what once seemed unthinkable, and we believe this commission is our best hope for doing so.