IrishMist
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All the talk about kids and guns...I would love to be able to take the stance and say that society, and the parents did these kids wrong and made them do what they did...but I would be lying. It's not just kids who go off on killing sprees, adults do it also. I tend to agree with the THEORY that alot of it has to do with how someone is wired. But, I also believe that environment also plays a large part. With the killings in the schools, it was a combination of the kids themselves (how they are wired), mixed with environment. If something had not set them off at that time, it would have happened later in life. Use my daughter as an example. She is educated about guns, knows their uses, how to use them, etc. I have gone out of my way to see that she knows the dangers that are associated with them, mainly because she is exposed to them on a daily basis. I have no assurance though that later, down the road, something will not happen to 'set' her off. She may be wired in a way that makes her dangerous, and is just not showing signs yet. Despite all I have done, this is a fear that I live with that surrounds her. If, at some time in her life, she goes into a rampage and starts killing people, who would be to blame? I could certainly take the blame upon myself...after all, I taught her everything she knows about weapons, and she has easy access to them. Or, I could blame the person who set her off and caused her to do such a horrible thing. Or, I could blame society for not understanding. Or, I could blame her for not having the control needed to keep her anger and resentment at bay. The thing is, even if I had not had guns in my house, and even if she had not been shown how to use them...SHE WOULD HAVE FOUND A WAY to do what she did anyway. No matter how much education, teaching, understanding, sympathy, or blame we place with people...kids AND ADULTS...if they want to kill...THEY WILL FIND A WAY. Throwing blame on one or two people ( or in one or two areas ) does not solve the problem that people are wired in a certain way, they will react to situations in a certain way. A good question to ask is instead; If a person is wired in such a way that they are dangerous, how do you help that person overcome the urge to destroy? And, more importantly, how do you recognize such tendencies in a person?
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