Stop the Madness and Protect
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Burglary is one of the biggest violations done to a family. The feeling that your own private home can have someone in your underwear draw gives me the creeps. I hear the excuses all of the time, it is the economy that is causing the upswing in break-ins. Maybe that is true, but I don’t see in the paper that there are not any break-ins when the economy is good. Going into another person’s home and taking their possessions is vile, nothing more or nothing less.
Look what happened last week in the state of New Hampshire. Four teenagers were charged in connection with the a murder of a young mother and slicing the throat of her ten year old daughter, early last Sunday morning along an isolated dirt road in Mont Vernon, a town of about 2,000.
The New Hampshire Department of Justice identified the victim as 42-year-old Kimberly Cates. The medical examiner determined that she died from multiple sharp injuries to the head, torso, left arm, and left leg. The victim's 10-year-old daughter sustained serious knife injuries that required hours of surgery.
Four teenagers went on a killing spree for fun apparently like a Wes Craven horror movie. What for? I ask myself every minute since I heard of this gruesome display of inhumanity. Why would another human being do that to a mother and her child for fun? These boys were raised middle class and were in Boy Scouts, school plays, and one was a handyman at a Mormon Church, who was about to go on a Mormon Mission. Four boys led astray by something or someone. Will we ever know the real reason this happened? I doubt it and with that said, there is nothing we can do to stop people from turning to the dark side of life, and that is a very sad reminder of just how fragile we all are.
I started asking myself besides Obama’s healthcare and Nobel award, what has dominated the news as of late? Kidnappings of children, parents locking their children in closets, it is a world that has gone astray. I am not one to think life is like the Miracle on 34th Street all the time, but I am a firm believer that one must not just appreciate each other, we protect each other and each other’s children and families
How did we get to a point where people do not respect a human life? When did we start adding metal detectors to middle schools? Think back to the Wyatt Earp days, guns were more plentiful and school age children did not go into schools and start shooting up the school house. I would like to blame this on television and video games, but I do not see it. I used to see the broken down home as the problem, however NH got rid of that.
As an educator I have seen the eyes of the younger generation and I do not like what I see. I do not see the love and respect I once did even ten years ago. I remember as a child looking up to my parents, my teachers, the clergy and just about everyone who was an authority figure. Authority figures were just that authority figures. They made us feel safe and I believe that is where the disconnect is right now. I do not believe for one second that our families feel safe anymore. Authority figures have lost their way as tough love and tough discipline is a thing of the past.
We can not yell at a student anymore or we can not get tough on the ball field without worrying about losing our jobs. Mind you I am not condoning harming a child with discipline, but I feel discipline breeds safety and we need to get that back, the sooner the better.
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Personally I think there are a few simple answers to what causes this, and they all come down to one thing: Parental involvement.
You have you parents who think that the computer is a babysitter, and you have your parents who won't have a computer in their home because "The internet is toxic to children and will make them into serial killers." Y ou have you parents who don't give a flying barn owl, and you have you parents who will beat the living s*** out of their kids for not making an "A" on their algebra test.
Their are very, very few good parents out their these days. These bad parents pass their bad parenting on to their kids, who get worse, and worse, and worse. You have 15 year olds raising their own children...and raising them on Pepsi and Kool Aid instead of milk and water. You have parents who refuse to take the damn X-Box away from their kids because "How else will they have fun?"
On the other end of the spectrum, you have the parent who gives their kids so many chores that the parents don't have to lift a finger, or who won't even give their kid a piece of cake on their birthday because the sugar is bad for them.
Where is the in-between?
Their is nothing wrong with "One our of TV or video games after school, then homework, then dinner with the family. After dinner, please wash the dishes. if you are done with your homework you can watch movies with us." That kind of atitude, along with taking the kids out to play ball on Saturday and being available for any topic of conversation with you child is the best way to raise him or her into a well-adjusted adult.
But no one wants to do it anymore.
Here's a horrible example from today's Detroit Free Press:
A mother and her 15-year-old son were charged with murder today after prosecutors say the teen shot a bystander at a Detroit recreation center Thursday with a gun he got from his mother.
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“I’ve seen situations like this before, but not quite this blatant,” Prosecutor Kym Worthy said today, announcing the charges against Tarranisha Davis, 35, and her son, Tremaine Davis, 15, both of Detroit. “I don’t know how we can expect our youth to stay out of violent crime if we have their parents assisting them in that endeavor.”
Investigators say Tremaine Davis was involved in an argument earlier Thursday at the Considine Little Rock Family Center at 8904 Woodward Ave. Terranisha Davis, who had been at a gas station across the street, drove over to the center and popped the latch on the hood of her van so Tremaine Davis could retrieve a gun hidden inside, Worthy said.
Standing silently in 36th District Court at his arraignment this afternoon, Tremaine Davis was remanded to custody without bail pending a hearing Nov. 6.
“The evidence in this case will show you cannot unlatch the hood unless it is unlatched from the inside" of the van, Worthy said.
The teen then sent four bullets from the .32 revolver flying outside the center at 3:40 p.m. Dmitri Jackson, 19, an innocent bystander there to play basketball, died from a shot to the head.
After the shooting, Tarranisha Davis drove her son from the scene, but both were arrested several blocks away by Detroit police. The weapon has been recovered.
Ralph Deeds says:
3 months ago
I share your concerns, but I don't have any solutions. These insane killings--mothers killing their children, baby sitters abusing babies, teenage boys killing their parents, school shootings--do seem to be more common. The reasons why aren't clear to me, and what to do about them is less so. One thing I'm sure of is that "zero tolerance" policies like the one in the Delaware primary school in the headlines this week aren't the answer.