Commentary: A Horrifying and Lethal Case of Boredom

BET ^ | August 21, 2013 | Jonathan P. Hicks

[Hojczyk]

Beyond that, it is yet another painful sign of how gun violence has become far too rampant in America and access to firearms has become far too effortless. Anyone with determination — including teenagers — can get a hold of a semi-automatic firearm as easily as buying hand sanitizer in a drug store.

Moreover, there is something so deeply amiss in a world where teenagers shoot and kill passersby simply to deal with their sense of boredom. For many, that was the void once filled by sports, the arts, pastimes and hobbies — even television. This sad incident in Oklahoma should remind the nation of the need for more homes to benefit from the presence of mentors who can provide guidance to a generation of young people for whom such models are painfully absent.

Instead of straining to make this a racial incident and indictment of the civil rights leaders, this event should be looked at squarely as an example of how the nation’s porous and lax gun laws have intersected with a deep-seated cultural void to produce young people with a lack of character and basic human decency.

[JLAGRAYFOX]

Looks like the March On Washington 50th Anniversary get together in Washington, DC ain’t drawing tons of folks!!! Sad....listening to some of them Black racist verbage!!! These poor folks are not living in the real world!!! Dr. Martin Luther King would be ashamed of all of them!!! Place is filthy aready!!! Standard procedure in the Obamabot kingdom!!!

Do any of you Freepers have reports of the turnout in DC??? CBS has running video...but refuses to show scans of the attendees...and, CSPAN is also weak in scanning the attending folks. Hoping this Al Sharpton farce is a major bust!!!

[Recovering Ex-hippie]

Good Lord....Its the Ghetto thug culture that is out of control and now they are going to talk about St Skittles”legacy”????

[Rides_A_Red_Horse]

Anyone with determination — including teenagers — can get a hold of a semi-automatic firearm as easily as buying hand sanitizer in a drug store.

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To test this I went to the local dollar store and looked right next to where they stock the hand sanitizer sure enough there were semi-automatic firearms! I only had 12 dollars so I bought a dozen.

[NotYourAverageDhimmi]

The majority of black people will never hold black people accountable for their actions and their lot in life. It is always some other excuse -- gun culture, racism, etc. There needs to be an honest discussion as to whether the culture among the black underclass can be redeemed to be compatible with the rest of America; and, if not, what can be done to sever the ties as soon as possible before more people are harmed and America is dragged further down.

[central_va]

I guess we need to go back to this:

Sucks having to carry around 3 pound "hogsleg" everywhere but what else are we going to do?

[Standing Wolf]

...it is yet another painful sign of how gun violence has become far too rampant in America and access to firearms has become far too effortless.

Wrong! The root cause of violent crime is criminals.

How much effort or honesty did that take to figure out?

[P-Marlowe]

For many, that was the void once filled by sports, the arts, pastimes and hobbies — even television.

He left out WORK! _

[savedbygrace]

If they had fathers in the home, they couldn’t qualify for nearly as much welfare and other handouts.

That single issue is one of the main reasons for the violence in the country today. Welfare from the federal government. Hooray for Johnson’s Great Society.

[Jim from C-Town]

Typical Diversion of the Black race and subculture of fatherless thugs. They blame the inanimate object instead of a culture of whores and immature sperm donor's who are interested in nothing more than their own physical self gratification.

If public policy and cultural norms required consequences instead of rewards for the bad behavior of unmarried sexual activity and rampant illegitimacy, this type of activity would be much less prevalent.

[central_va]

[MeshugeMikey]

Fathers represent the BIG authority!

No Authority... No Control...no Morals...”NO PEACE”

One well known critic of one of America’s leading “Civil RIghts pimps” said “Jesse’s distant frowns dont mean Jack, son.

[Jim from C-Town]

Typical Diversion of the Black race and subculture of fatherless thugs. They blame the inanimate object instead of a culture of whores and immature sperm donor's who are interested in nothing more than their own physical self gratification.

If public policy and cultural norms required consequences instead of rewards for the bad behavior of unmarried sexual activity and rampant illegitimacy, this type of activity would be much less prevalent.

[MeshugeMikey]

End Slack Place Violence..Now!

[Starstruck]

This isn't America's problem, this is Black America's problem. They are not listening to the people who's values could help them out of their situation. Instead they choose leaders who have no vested interest helping but instead have political and financial reasons to maintain the status quo.

I accept that racism was a White problem for many years. Now it is a Black problem.

[FreeReign]

BET.com commentary about the Zimmerman case:

"...the racial undertones surrounding the case cannot be denied. "

BET.com commentary about the Oklahoma threesome case:

"Instead of straining to make this a racial incident..."

[unread]

A world where(BLACK) teenagers shoot and kill passersby simply to deal with their sense of boredom.

Yea...And Benghazi was caused by a you tube video...

I'm sick of the lying bast---s....

[noinfringers2]

It has been a long time and many opinions traded since another person has pointed to Johnson’s ‘Great Society’ for being at the root of today’s social quagmire, good for you. When he assuaged his feelings about the Viet Niam war and proposed to create a modern social Tower of Babel we lost the foundation for the USA. It is history of even today that his concept for such a Tower was not workable with such a disparity in immigrated cultures, at least to the extent of uncontrolled that exists in the USA today. Obama and his enablers took advantage of the situation and were even brazen enough to say publicly that the Constitution needed some changes. Of course Bush1’s public declaration that there was now a ‘New World Order’ added fuel to the fire for Obama’s ‘Change’.

[unread]

A world where(BLACK) teenagers shoot and kill passersby simply to deal with their sense of boredom.

Yea...And Benghazi was caused by a you tube video...

I'm sick of the lying bast---s....

[marktwain]

TX:Come and Take It means to Restore Open Carry Protections

http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/08/txcome-and-take-it-means-to-restore.html

[marktwain]

I posted the article for the comments!!!!!

The comments are very good. I did not see a single one defending the author.