Posted on 11/03/2011 6:04:53 AM PDT by reaganaut1
My wife and I have different perspectives on the youth violence epidemic that currently plagues our urban neighborhood. She thinks some of the miscreants could be helped by more targeted after-school programs staffed by caring adults. I think there are plenty after-school programs and, besides, the teens perpetrating the violence, often after 11 p.m., are not the sort of individuals who would attend after-school programs. I believe more extreme measures are in order. The back-story: since early summer, packs of up to a dozen young teenagers have been accosting random middle-aged or elderly males in an attempt to knock them out with a single blow to the head. At least seven such attacks have occurred in our part of town. One elderly Vietnamese immigrant has already died as a result. Last week, the mayor of St. Louis, Francis Slay, drove up as a group of young thugs was strolling casually away after one such assault. This week, seven juveniles, mostly between the ages of 13-14, were arrested for two separate incidents.
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It is little wonder teens are indifferent to violence when they are repeatedly assured that their vicious behavior is not their fault. Blame a lack of hula-hoops and Frisbee golf. Blame a lack of finger painting classes.
THE NOTION THAT city kids could be so bored they would be driven to kill random strangers strikes me as incredible, to say the least. It is a well-known stereotype that rural teens have little to do but drink booze on country roads and perhaps tip over cows. However, it was a surprise for me to learn that city kids were similarly bored. After all, they live in the big city.
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after-school programs:
The primary course is “Mugging 101”.
Hold custodial parents criminally responsible for the criminal actions of their minor children.
IMO, parents are no different than the owners of dangerous animals: They have a responsibility to protect society. Negligence in that responsibility can lead to criminal charges. If you allow your children to roam the streets committing crimes, then you are Criminally Negligent, as surely as if you allowed your pet lion to roam the neighborhood.
As for the idea that children cannot be fairly prosecuted: OK, but they can be declared criminally insane* & a danger to society, & locked up until they are fit to return to society - if ever.
Yeah, we will need more prisons & insane asylums, & I'm all for that, too.
* What can the "knockout game" be if not criminally insane?
LOL.
Kind of ironic that I watched both Death Wish and Gran Torino just yesterday.
When teens attack. Shoot them. Twice in the chest and once in the head. But only if your life is in danger.
I like Clemenza's way better: "Don't forget, Mikey, two shots in the head apiece"
I think it’s not boredom or violent video games but the inevitable result of the dehumanizing, anti-reason morality of collectivism. The only cure is the morality of individualism, which unfortunately isn’t taught any more.
when society ill prepares teens to be self sufficient, they are left with the only thing they can assert... physical violence since they are at their physical peak and have no other attributes to make a living, they will turn to that.
self preservation teaches us that added to the mix of the minimizing of the value of life... we are indeed in deep doo-doo.
buy lots of ammo today.
and know how to keep it... and dispense with it totally so the survivors have little to do any harm with.
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It should read “when blacks attack.”
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