the black knight

This is very scary and needs to be stopped. I remember about a month ago when a student was acting strangely at DCCC and a teacher reported him. They found a gun in his car. My daughter goes there a couple of days a week and when I heard that, it really made me sick. Our kids should be able to go to school without fear. We should be able to go to the mall and pump gas without fear, but people have been killed doing that. The Bible says in the end times things will get worse and they definitely are. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to stop it though. I came out of the Cracker Barrel last night after a Mom's Night Out with some friends. A police officer was parked behind my van looking in my window's with a flash light. He told me there had been alot of break-ins around there and he was just checking my car. He waited until I made sure it was alright and until I got in my van before he left. I appreciated that, but it really does scare you. Makes me want to stay in my house and lock the doors. That would only be admitting defeat though, so we can't do that. Toughter laws don't seem to be helping, but something needs to be done. Not in every case, but I think alot of it starts in the home and if things don't change there it won't get any better.

Schools are "Defense Free Zones" as are malls and just about anywhere you see these maniacs go berserk.

The police are very good at taking photos of dead bodies and writing up reports on stolen items. That is, the police aren't assigned to each of us. Personal defense is a personal matter.

With that said, the answer to the question of how to stop some nut from shooting innocent people is... there is no answer.

We cannot plan for every act of the insane.

homeschoolmom,

I am feeling better now. There were 2 or 3 days that I had the classic symptoms of the flu.

You brought up a good point in your response. You mentioned about shootings in the malls and at the gas pumps. If you remember, Four Seasons Mall has had several shootings within the past year or two. Also, thanks to the "DC Snipers" from a few years ago, we know that we can get shot and killed while pumping gas.

ntseer,

I feel you are right. Taking God, the Bible, and prayer out of the schools has caused all these problems.

I am glad that the schools have the police officers there, but at the same time, it is sad that it has come down to where every school has to have a officer there.

And I think it is going to get worse with the upcoming generation. Control over your kids should be taken at a young age. They are given anything they want by us, the parents. They don't even know who Jesus is because we have not taught them. I think parental control and the knowledge of God in combination is the only way

I still think that a trip out behind the woodshed is sometimes in order. When I was young, I feared my Dad, yet I still loved him. If I did wrong I got a whipping. I had chores to do and they had better been done when my daddy got home from work. He wouldn't let us lay around all summer and watch tv, he would take the cord off and keep it with him at work so we couldn't. We never heard of ADD but we knew the word BELT. We were made to go to Church. We were not allowed to leave the house when our parents were not at home. But now they have too many choices. You have to break that negative will while they are very young. It's like breaking in a youg colt. Of coarse there was no such thing as a single parent unless one spouse passed away. And there was no such thing as movin in together. It was such a treat to get an RC cola once in a whle. Parents don't care anymore, and we are the cause of the way kids are. It's not only the poor that are causing problems, it is also the rich, and middle class. Kids have no fear of authority but resent it. The parents must take back his authority and reclaim it before it gets more out of hand. Whether you are a single parent or not you must stay in control.
These kids know right from wrong, they just want attentio

If the kids not had any idea of what we went through, they probably could not exhist. I scrapped lunch trays in the lunchroom to get a free meal which then was 25 cents. We hardly ever got 10 cents for ice cream. I would sit and watch those other kids eat that Ice cream and my mouth just watered. Once in a while someone would share with me, boy was that a treat. We learned to respect older people. We had to say yes mam and yes sir to any older people. It didn't take a lot to get a whipping.
Even though we thought we had it rough. now I sit back and can see where my parents were coming from. And you know, it was really that bad and sometimes I really miss those days with my family. Sittin' out under a shade tree on Sat. afternoons in a chair just talking. Or turning an old ice cream freezor.

You can even see it at Church in some of the kids. But nowdays you can't say anything because you will get jumped by the parents.