Lessons from Newtown
5. Limit our kids’ time online and control their exposure to desensitizing cultural influences. Turn off the TV. Get them off the bloody video games. Protect them from age-inappropriate Hollywood violence. Make sure they are active and engaged with us and the world, and not pent up in a room online every waking moment.
4. If you see a parent struggling with an out-of-control child, don’t look the other way. If you are able to offer any kind of help (your time, resources, wisdom), do it. Don’t wait.
3. We still don’t know the medical condition of the Newtown shooter. But we do know that social stigmas are strong. We don’t need government to take immediate, individual action to break those stigmas. There are millions of children, teens, and young adults suffering from very real mental illnesses. Be silent no more about your family’s experiences, your struggles, your pains, and your fears. Speak up.
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I don’t see anyone making the connection to the shooters in Columbine,Gabby Gifford, Newtown and Aurora and that fact that they were all on some kind of psychotropic drug for ADD or ADHD. I think these drugs create monsters out of kids who would normally benefit from some lesser form of therapy.
katy on December 27, 2012 at 12:19 AM
How about controlling access to the kind of weapons that a certain mentally frail person had access to at Newtown. It’s a glaring omission here. If you have someone who has issues you should NOT keep guns at home. You should be prohibited by law from owning rifles designed to kill people if you have a record of violence or psychological issues or if someone in your household is similarly affected. Waiting for the next heavily armed freak coming down the lane with your own gun is BS.
lexhamfox on December 27, 2012 at 2:30 AM
Great. And who decides what a ‘psychological issue’ is? Hint: Liberal bureaucrats, that’s who. Say good night to ex military and evangelicals being allowed to own guns. And the list will broaden.
Avoid the slippery slope. You lost me at “You should be prohibited by law from owning…” See how that infringes?
As L. Neil Smith said, in a free society, both good and evil can exist. But in a tyranny, only evil exists.
fossten on December 27, 2012 at 5:25 AM
Oh there is but not in the main stream. There is also a bit of a buzz with the conspiratorial folks that every one of them were seeing a “professional” and that the Aurora shooter claims he was programmed to do it by his doctor.
Dr. Frank Enstine on December 27, 2012 at 8:43 AM
May we get a quick list of people-friendly rifles, please?
rogerb on December 27, 2012 at 8:55 AM