“He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it,” warned Seneca, a Roman philosopher almost two thousand years ago.
Guns, bombs, and murders in schools and shopping malls fill the headlines today. What is going on? How many more young people have to die because of the violent urges of psychopaths armed with guns, bombs, and hatred?
Look at some of today’s headlines and stories:
An undergraduate UC student is arrested, with two pipe-bombs, in
Yet the violent madness in schools and shopping malls extends beyond just the
In a
Why are so many people filled with so much hatred, violent fantasies, and armed with dangerous weapons? What is going on?
Schools and shopping centers should be safe places where people gather, smile, and enjoy life. In our public schools, universities, and ESL classrooms, we celebrate diversity and individuality. We share stories, exchange insights, and encourage each other. We see the positive possibilities. Respect, tolerance, and the search for more information and knowledge guide us.
The terrible headlines today emphasize how fragile our schools remain. Our classrooms, often seen as an oasis of safety and possibility in dangerous neighborhoods, no longer seem automatically safe. I want more security and more sanity in schools. I want stricter gun control laws in the
Why are so many guns, bombs, and psychopaths entering so many schools? What are we doing to prevent future school shootings, massacres, and funerals? Or are we turning away, pretending their is no problem, and encouraging more tragedies?
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2 comments:
That is a very important argument. I think american's culture coud be change about that thing, it's old, too old! The time of west ended and self-justice must be only a remember. But Weapon's industries, for 50 yers of cold war begans too strongs and has too power. A way to resolve tha problem is, for examploe to converte these industry in other productiones. I know Usa industries in the last time leave many numbers of hadmakers. I'm italian and i cannot have the rifles ( hunt - rifles) of my fahter ( He died one year ago). To can have its, only for colleciont, I MUST to have: a medical certificate, no old justices problems and not ot have munitions in my home. I know in U.s. laws are less hard of it.
Thank you for your observations and information. I didn't know that you had to have a medical certificate, keep only antique guns, and couldn't own ammunition. Sounds reasonable!
You also make a very good point about this being tied to an old, old American frontier psychology. Owning a gun here still seems to be seen as some essential human right. Yet few us survive by hunting and gathering or live on isolated farms.
Again, thanks for reading the blog and sharing your thoughts.
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