Posted on 07/18/2007 11:24:46 PM PDT by neverdem
I alluded to this column’s title briefly in my radio spot this week. I think it imperative that a discussion be initiated on it, as it provides another reason for the Virginia Tech shooting that will be avoided by mainstream media analysis: the need for Teacher Control.
Yes, it was a gun that enabled the student Cho Seung-Hui to carry out the ultimate in angst but what made him so angry about America, as he himself wrote, that he chose to go out in a blaze of glory and take innocent people with him?
A little background here….
I work with young people. I teach kids middle through high school. I have two teenagers of my own. After watching some of the television shows they watch, observing them play the video games they play, and listening to what’s on their minds at present, they don’t seem to have the hatred of America in their hearts that would set them off.
Remember, we’re talking about teenagers who are more interested in their cell phone text messages, their clothes, what movie to see this weekend, when they will be old enough to drive, whether a person likes them or if there is a free soda close by, can they get the mp3 of that song tonight, and will they be able to intercept the report card before their parents get home and check the mailbox? Normal teenagers think about normal things.
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