280g-reefman;240991 said:
Just venting on a fish forum, really kind of pointless. Go back to selling insurance and all will be well.
I don't know you, and not sure I would care to if this reply is typical of your behavior, but it is a pretty Rude thing to say. djkms was making a simple and very true statement and really didn't deserve your reply.
As for the bombings, the losers that did it and if there is more of it happening now days, or that we just hear about it, it is happening more often without a doubt. I went through high school in the 80's and in So. Cal. We had the street gangs in LA, but this crap never happened. If a shooting happened in Riverside, (where I was raised), it made it on the LA TV news. Any shootings in LA, even Compton or Watts made it on the news. Something like Columbine, Aurora, Newton or Boston was unheard of in the USA.
I think there is a tie between these acts and the fact that in today's society, we are jaded to violence. TV and movies are so violent, many of the video games people play are 1st person shooter and each version of a game gets more graphic, and so on. Kids today are much more disrespectful than we were allowed to be when I was young, and my dad says if he did what I did, he would have been paddled till his butt bled!
I don't think gun control or any kind of government action will ever stop this. I know that what it will take is for those of us with kids to actually raise our kids! Don't let the TV do it, don't depend on the school to do it, and don't think they will learn on their own! They need a parent there to guide them. To praise them when they do good, and to tan their hide when they mess up! I am not saying to beat your kid for spilling a glass of milk, but if a kid gets caught stealing, or using dope, or smarting off to a teacher or other adult, they need to have the fear of God put into them. My kids know that if I find they did something like I just mentioned, they WILL get their butts smacked. If they show disrespect to me or their mom, or any adult and we hear it, they will get their mouths smacked, and then get it washed out with soap, Irish Spring, just because it has that strong scent that stays in the mouth for a few hours.
Some people say I am abusing my kids. Nothing could be farther from the truth! We get along great, we go out together all the time, we are very close and they are absolute angels. We constantly get compliments on how well behaved they are. My 8 year old reads at an 11th grade level and comprehends what she reads, has been put up a grade and they want to put her up another because she is ahead of what they teach in 3rd grade. My 4 year old is my little buddy and we are always together and she will be starting school in Sept. and is as smart as a whip. I just do not want to be one of the parents who has to live my life knowing that my not raising and disciplining my kids resulted in my kid killing someone's kid, parent or friend. I believe in having guns, and I have a large collection. I also take my kids shooting when we go camping or out to the country. They are familiar with guns and what they can do. They have seen an elk after I shot it and know it was from a gun.
Sorry for such a rant, but this whole mess has been weighing on me for some time. I hate the thought that my kids cannot have the same innocence that I did as a kid. It makes me sad.
