The willingness of the children to commit these crimes has gone up and up and up. Many people say it is the parents responsibility to deal with this matter. Well, it is, without a doubt. But it is the parents responsibility to protect the child from guns, explosives, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and pornography. And on all of those substances, society helps the parents.
Society regulates guns, explosives, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and pornography.
And we say that anybody that provides that substance to a child is a criminal. In the same way, the time may have come for us to say that anybody who provides these toxic substances to children is a criminal. Since 1957, in America, the per capita assault rate has gone up sevenfold. In Canada, since 1964, the per capita assault rate has gone up approximately fivefold. In the last 15 years, in European nations, the per capita assault rate has gone up approximately fivefold, in Norway and Greece, fourfold in Australia and New Zealand.