> > > > > I guess by now you all have seen on CNN, or elsewhere, about the 13 year old boy who shot some kids at the Fort Gibson Middle School. Fort Gibson is less than 20 minutes from my house. This is a little too close to home for me. I have 2 kids in school and I don't even want to think of it happening to them. Talk about a shock to hear. Fort Gibson is a very small town, with a population of less than 10,000. If it can happen there, I guess it truly *can* happen anywhere.
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> > > > > Drac "Still a bit shocked by the news" imas
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> > > > oh my gosh.... no, I hadn't heard about that. How horrible.... how wasteful... how useless.... how stupid. I suppose it would be a shock to anyone anywhere, hearing about a teenager shooting people. It has every other time. Of course, your statement about "If it happens there, it can happen anywhere" isn't, from what I've seen and thought about, necessarily true. I don't think (at least I don't remember) that any of the shootings happened in cities. They were all in suburban or rural areas. I really truly DON'T worry about it happening here - especially not at my school. You (the everyone-included you) will probably say "but hey that's what everyone at all the high schools think"... but at my school, it's true.
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> > > > uni"loners do not exist at my school. none of the "signs" around the kids who have done the shootings are at my school"peg
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> > > Now just because some one is picked on or is a loner does not mean they will turn psychotic. I was a loner and I never hurt anyone. I read comic books with violence, I watched violent TV, I saw violent movies but I never thought about blowing my class mates away. I thank my parents, who while they allowed me to watch a lot of TV were also attentive to being sure I didn't belive it was real. I think some parents are so oblivious to there children they don't even bother to have the "everything you see on TV isn't real" conversation.
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> > > Spider-freedomofspeachshouldbeprotected,gunsshouldberegulated-Boy
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> > You've hit the nail on the head. I don't believe that more gun control or getting rid of violence on TV will have much of an impact in preventing incidents like Littleton and Fort Gibson. I believe it begins with the parents. Parents have to be involved in their kids lives. That's the area that we should look at improving.
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> > Either that, or we send every single kid to school with an automatic weapon. I'd think twice about shooting up my school if all my classmates were armed too.
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> > (Before anyone goes off on me about that last paragraph, IT WAS SARCASM!)
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> > Seriously though, parents have to get more involved in their kids lives and teach them right from wrong.
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> > Kel"my two cents"ly
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> Earlier this year, I had to write a satire about some problem facing our society today. I picked the big problem a lot of people rightly have with sex/nudity and violence in our society.... I said that we shoudle ducate students in such a way that by the time they reach high school they know how to use guns and are watching porn movies in health class... then non one would have a problem with it
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> uni"i thought it was a good paper"peg


Hmmm, maybe a little extreme there. But thats what satire is for. Our entire culture needs to lossen up on the sex thing. In Italy they actually have top-less billboards, it just isn't a big deal. Of course our country was founded by a punch of repressed puritans, so what do you expect.

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