PAUL HARVEY ON COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL
PAUL HARVEY
ON COLUMBINE HIGH SCHOOL
For the life of me, I can't
understand what could have gone wrong in Littleton, Colorado. If only the
parents had kept their children away from the guns, we wouldn't have had such a
tragedy. Yeah, it must have been the guns.
It couldn't have been because
half of our children are being raised in broken homes.
It couldn't have been because
our children get to spend an average of 30 seconds in meaningful conversation
with their parents each day. After all we give our children quality time.
It couldn't have been because
we treat our children as pets and our pets as children.
It couldn't have been because
we place our children in day care centers where they learn their socialization
skills among their peers under the law of the jungle while employees who have no
vested interest in the children look on and make sure that no blood is spilled.
It couldn't have been because
we allow our children to watch, on average, seven hours of television a day
filled with the glorification of sex and violence that isn't fit for adult
consumption . It couldn't have been because we allow (or even encourage) our
children to enter into virtual worlds in which, to win the game, one must kill
as many opponents as possible in the most sadistic way possible.
It couldn't have been because
we have sterilized and contracepted our families down to sizes so small that the
children we do have are so spoiled with material things that they come to equate
the receiving of the material with love.
It couldn't have been because
our children, who historically have been seen as a blessing from God, are now
being viewed as either a mistake created when contraception fails or
inconveniences that parents try to raise in their spare time. It couldn't
have been because we give two year prison sentences to teenagers who kill their
newborns.
It couldn't have been because
our school systems teach the children that they are nothing but glorified apes
who have revolutionized out of some primordial soup of mud.
It couldn't have been because
we teach our children that there are no laws of morality that transcend us, that
everything is relative and that actions don't have consequences. What the heck,
the president gets away with it. Nah, it must have been the guns.
