OpinionApril 1, 1998
SPEAKOUT
WHERE DID kids get guns? They get them from their own home. The school board should make up a list of questions for parents to sign when they enroll their children in public school. The list should ask how many guns and the serial numbers are at home. Are they locked up where your kids can't get to them? Will you be responsible for your children as long as they are in public school? Parents are going to have to be responsible for their children...
Guns at school come from homes
WHERE DID kids get guns? They get them from their own home. The school board should make up a list of questions for parents to sign when they enroll their children in public school. The list should ask how many guns and the serial numbers are at home. Are they locked up where your kids can't get to them? Will you be responsible for your children as long as they are in public school? Parents are going to have to be responsible for their children.
Give youths a taste of prison
I THINK the state needs to provide a teen-age prison and keep those kids there who think they are so grown up. Let them do time just like the men and women who have to do long time for crimes instead of a slap on the hand and probation and back on the streets. Maybe this will show some of the other kids that they can't get by with just anything and nothing will happen. If it was up to me, I'd put them in with the big guys. Let them pay their price. I'm a concerned parent.
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Too much profanity in movies
MY FAMILY and I just went to see "Twilight" and "Primary Colors." We loved the movies for everything -- the acting, the stories -- and it was terrific. But you know, it's like the actors can't get through a sentence without letting some vulgarity and profanity slip through their lips. At the end of it you feel drained, not entertained. You feel like you've been bloodied in battle, like you fought your way through an obstacle course, weaving and dodging these swear words flying off the screen at you like they were bullets. I'm not exaggerating. I really feel depressed when I get out of a movie. I feel like I've been beaten to death with profanity. Everybody's been known to occasionally use these words. I just feel like Hollywood thinks that we out here in the real world can't get through a sentence or paragraph without using them, and I feel really insulted about it. And it's depressing, because these movies would have been just first rate only for that.
News media plays up shootings
I THINK it is just a terrible disgrace that the news media all over the world keep blabbing about these gun snipers. It's no wonder kids take guns to school, because they just keep rehashing it and the kids keep hearing and hearing it, and they think they can do it too. It's no wonder the kids are getting the way they are.
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