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Why Kids Kill
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The media loves to demonize anything that is not mainstream. I read a number of articles regarding this incident the other day. It was amazing the things that were mentioned: death match in DOOM, a German industrial band called KMFDM, and the internet. So now anyone having an interest in the above three items is now associated (at least in the public's mind) with mentally disturbed killers.
So what is the solution to these schoolyard killings? Shall we place metal detectors by all of the doors? Place armed security guards there as well? Making our schools secured in this way will be similar to sentencing our high school kids to prison. How about removing web sites with ideas we do not share? Will that protect us?Taking freedom away does not make us a free society.
There is an article today on CNN's web page today entitled, "Denver Station Cancels Marilyn Manson Concert." This is as much as a guilty verdict. Why not just come out and say it? M.M. made my kids kill.
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The media loves to demonize anything that is not mainstream. I read a number of articles regarding this incident the other day. It was amazing the things that were mentioned: death match in DOOM, a German industrial band called KMFDM, and the internet. So now anyone having an interest in the above three items is now associated (at least in the public's mind) with mentally disturbed killers.
So what is the solution to these schoolyard killings? Shall we place metal detectors by all of the doors? Place armed security guards there as well? Making our schools secured in this way will be similar to sentencing our high school kids to prison. How about removing web sites with ideas we do not share? Will that protect us?Taking freedom away does not make us a free society.
There is an article today on CNN's web page today entitled, "Denver Station Cancels Marilyn Manson Concert." This is as much as a guilty verdict. Why not just come out and say it? M.M. made my kids kill.