[1010RD]

You've got all the elements here: unwed teen mother, smoking, alcohol, piercings, tattoos, immaturity, mental illness, crime, etc.

The answer isn't VAWA or any government intervention.

The answer is strong, Christ-centered families built on the ordinance of marriage.

[Servant of the Cross]

The answer is strong, Christ-centered families built on the ordinance of marriage.

Very true. This reminds me of the testimony of Archbishop Charles Chaput (at the time) to a Senate Committee regarding Columbine .....

My second observation is this: Blaming shock-rock performers like Marilyn Manson for the violence in our culture is easy. It's also, in a way, probably right. But the problem of violence isn't out there in bad music and bloody films. The real problem is in here, in us, and it won't be fixed by v-chips. In the last four decades, we've created a culture that markets violence in dozens of different ways, seven days a week. It's part of our social fabric. When we build our advertising campaigns on consumer selfishness and greed, and when money becomes the universal measure of value, how can we be surprised when our sense of community erodes? When we glorify and multiply guns, why are we shocked when kids use them? When we answer murder with more violence in the death penalty, we put the state's seal of approval on revenge. When the most dangerous place in the country is a mother's womb, and the unborn child can have his or her head crushed in an abortion, even in the process of being born . . . the body language of that message is that life isn't sacred and may not be worth much at all. In fact, certain kinds of killing no longer even count officially as "killing." Certain kinds of killing we enshrine as rights and protect by law. When we live this kind of contradiction, why are we surprised at the results? The Columbine murders will mark my community for years to come. They're a wound felt by the entire country - but I don't think they'll be the last. We live in the most violent century in history.

[shineon]

He died so we might live.

[awelliott]

You've got all the elements here: unwed teen mother, smoking, alcohol, piercings, tattoos, immaturity, mental illness, crime, etc.

The answer isn't VAWA or any government intervention.

The answer is strong, Christ-centered families built on the ordinance of marriage.

Yeah, but then we would be imposing our narrow-minded opinions on others. After all, what's right for us isn't necessarily right for them. /sarc

[albie]

So the photog saw that she was about to get a beating and the little girl entered the scene for more dangerous possibilities and the photog just kept snapping pics?!

[DTogo]

After I confirmed one of the housemates had called the police, I then continued to document the abuse — my instincts as a photojournalist began kicking in.

Never mind intervening to try and stop the abuse, it's more important to document it as a photojournalist.

Humanity FAIL

[Twinkie]

Because people WILL NOT accept the authority, GRACE, and mercy of Christ; rather choose to live in FEAR and dependency on government, being tied to their mama’s pantybands, to a certain locale,or whatever else they worship, all these sorts of things continue. - THIS is ALL going to be OVER soon, and very soon; and what we’ve always thought was important will be a non-issue, soon, and very soon. FEAR NOT!!

The Kingdom is coming; oh tell ye the story - God’s banner exalted shall be; the earth shall be full of His knowledge and glory, as the waters that cover the sea!

[SaraJohnson]

When all else fails, the second amendment kicks in. That monster had to sleep sometime and that is why God made chain saws.

If you don’t want to end up killing a monster or being killed by one, don’t head down the spookey path of life. The slut thang may be gangsta “cool” but monsters and their violence is not pretty in the end.