Scott Evans
Staff Alumnus
In the wake of the recent shootings I am amazed at the complete lack of intelligent discussion on the actual problem. I am hearing as all of you are “… we have to do something to get the guns out of the hands of the children ..."”and other such foolishness.
The problem is not weapons in our society.
The problem is not even weapons at school …. Yes you heard me right weapons at school are not the problem.
My father tells me that when he was in Grade School and High School he would frequently bring his rifle with him to school in the morning (as would many other students). He would leave it in the office with the principal. After school he and the other boys would get their rifles and hunt rabbits on the way home. Often his catch was the reason for meat on the table that night. My father did not grow up in some rural area where families lived miles apart. He grew up in Gloucester, NJ a few miles from Philadelphia. Never an incident of mass killing or shooting rampages. Why? … Why is it that my father’s generation could trust children at school with guns and we cannot.
The problem with the recent killings is the children who did the killing.
Why is our generation fostering murderous children? Why did my father’s generation not?
In the differences between the two lies the answer to our societies problems.
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 5:20"
The problem is not weapons in our society.
The problem is not even weapons at school …. Yes you heard me right weapons at school are not the problem.
My father tells me that when he was in Grade School and High School he would frequently bring his rifle with him to school in the morning (as would many other students). He would leave it in the office with the principal. After school he and the other boys would get their rifles and hunt rabbits on the way home. Often his catch was the reason for meat on the table that night. My father did not grow up in some rural area where families lived miles apart. He grew up in Gloucester, NJ a few miles from Philadelphia. Never an incident of mass killing or shooting rampages. Why? … Why is it that my father’s generation could trust children at school with guns and we cannot.
The problem with the recent killings is the children who did the killing.
Why is our generation fostering murderous children? Why did my father’s generation not?
In the differences between the two lies the answer to our societies problems.
"Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!
Isaiah 5:20"