Yes, let's blame the parents. Everyone who has parented a teen knows how easy it is to know what they are doing every minute of the day.
If my dog gets out of my yard and bites someone, I'm still held responsible
Yes, let's blame the parents. Everyone who has parented a teen knows how easy it is to know what they are doing every minute of the day.
Yes. You see good parents with bad kids and you see bad parents with good kids. There's niether rhyme nor reason to it.Yes, let's blame the parents. Everyone who has parented a teen knows how easy it is to know what they are doing every minute of the day.
Yes, let's blame the parents. Everyone who has parented a teen knows how easy it is to know what they are doing every minute of the day.
I think that's the point - several news outlets are reporting the story completely race-free which is more than annoying after race was the forefront issue in the Zimmerman/Martin case. I don't get too bent out of shape over it though - I'm never one to holler race-bating but even I'm sort of scratching my head over this one. It has the potential to be a real catalyst.
This could be good and bad though - attention to the problems we have here in the US are often doled out by what sounds better to the agenda of the news-agency reporting it (and it happens on both sides). Now we have an incident that one side doesn't want pushed for racial reasons, but is simultaneously foaming-at-the-mouth to push it from a gun-control standpoint.
They typically would have swept this one under the rug - in steps Australia to send it back up to the top of the flag-pole. Now how do you spin it when someone yanked the curtain out from in front of you? Do you continue with "pay no attention to that man behind the curtain" or do you face facts and do something positive with it (solutions often start with admitting there's a problem in the first place).
Try them as adults, and mete the sentences to the parents.
It does in the sense that so many people are hollering about it (both the race-baiters, and the race-reeled-in-hook-line-and-sinker types - many of whom are here on OSA), yet it remains the elephant in the room that we as the United States ignore as a problem worthy of an actual serious solution as a whole.
I don't think the government should get involved in solving anymore problems (they've obviously done such a good job so far), but people can collectively act of their own free will without it being communism/socialism and I'd say we as a country are way past talking (like civilized adults) specifically about these racial hot-button issues.
More importantly, how do we stop/prevent this type of thing on the scale it's currently happening (as people, not as a forceful government)? Is education the key?
I don't know but while we keep just back-and-forthing with snide comments and slanted media reports, a lot of folks are 1.) being raised/not-raised under horrible circumstances, 2.) killing and/or being killed, or suffering/dying, and 3.) becoming a burden to us all one way or another.
Crap. Several sites are already putting the anti-gun spin on it. I guess Chris and his girlfriend joked about the US' lax gun laws.
What do you want to bet, this gun was not a legally owned gun by the teens or their parents?
Yes, let's blame the parents. Everyone who has parented a teen knows how easy it is to know what they are doing every minute of the day.
If we can't blame others, then whom can we blame?Any questions?
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