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Originally Posted by WYOSVX

What do we teach our children in the US? Drugs are dangerous: let's have a war on drugs. Terrorists might come to our country: let's all pack guns and send troops and bomb them wherever they might be. Flying is dangerous: let's put people up there with guns. Our neighborhoods aren't safe: let's put up gates or get more security. Let's incarcarcate a ridiculous proportion of our population. Our response to anythiing uncomfortable is force. Kids are watching, learning. I have NO clue if that is the problem. I have guns and wouldn't give them up. But I just wonder if our way of solving problems- with force- is the real problem. I live in a small town in Wyoming, a place you'd think is safe to raise your kids. Two months ago, a nut came into town, abducted a 12 year old girl, assaulted her. She was let go, miraculously. The guy was a loner, into child porn, used force to get his way. Obviously didn't question right/wrong, just made the jump to using force. No one seems to know what would have changed any of this: Connecticut, Colorado, anywhere there is senseless violence. But I think, somehow, it is learned.

Force and senseless violence is nothing new look back to anytime in history the Crusades of the world world wars the Roman empire the dark ages the only difference between then and now is the technology