But compare this to the number of bricks. Today, according to the Brick Industry Association, there are 84 manufacturers in the United States, operating 204 plants, that make 9.4 billion bricks each and every year. With cheap access, no restrictions, and a public record for deadly violence, we need brick control, and we need it today. Violence in our society and schools is a real problem. Passing laws that only make us feel better is not enough.
Selected companies are happy to make a profit from it as well.
But the solution does not lie in the enactment of laws that deal with symptoms the way medicine deals with a cold. Violence is ultimately a problem of the heart that laws can't deal with. Let's deal with violence by taking the profit out of products that encourage and glorify it, restoring standards of right and wrong in our culture, and by lifting our country in prayer for healing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . All rights reserved.