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Originally posted by Evil Al:
That's terrible...
Its good that you brought this to our attention TAOWolf, some people (including myself) didn't truly understand how bad the problem was until now.
What exactly is the American government doing about all this?
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Why is it the American GOVERNMENTS problem? The US government is somewhat different than that in other countries, in the USA it is not supposed to be the nanny of the people. The role of government in the USA is not supposed to be social engineering.
This is an issue of parents and society, these problems are local individual issues. Where do these kids get guns? where do they get money? Why are their parents not aware that their children are psychopathic? It comes from parents treating their kids like adults instead of children, or worse yet, ignoring their responsibility as parents. The blame is not the governments, it is the parents and the teachers....these are the two sets of adults that spend the most time with these kids.
The government has only one responsibility here, and that is to make sure that each states laws are constitutional and the state laws should be prosecuting the criminals who do these terrible crimes.
sorry ..pet peeve there....people abdicating their responsibility and accountability and dumping it on the government...very stupid thing to do.
EDIT: Obviously I err was ranting about the situation in the US, the terrible tragedy in Germany may or may not be related to the same issues.
[ 04-26-2002, 02:52 PM: Message edited by: MagiK ]