Quote From: missesc My opinion towards this entire subject, is if all you worried parents out there want to know how to prevent these terrible shootings from happening, become a solid voice together and make gun laws more intense, and for the love of your children, if you are going to own firearms, lock them up and have conversations with your kids about them. That's one of the biggest problems with the United States, which makes me that much happier to be a Canadian: guns shouldn't be so easily owned.
I also think that the marijuana has nothing to do with the shootings, and I feel that his mother smoking with him had only positive influence on him; it might have been a way for them to bond. And seeing as their family is dysfunctional (like everybody's family), maybe that was a step in the right direction. Chances are he was involved in more dangerous drugs, that I do not support, but marijuana is harmless. Guns, however, war in other countries, that's a terrible thing for children to grow up around.
I can imagine I will be getting angry replies, and I welcome them.
Well, you are certainly entitled to your own opinion.
However your thinking is really off-kilter when you say that smoking pot with your kid is "a way to bond". I'm guessing you are very young and not a parent....and, if you are a parent, God help your kids!
The TRUE way to bond with your children is to be a strong, sober, consistent, stable, reliable, GROWN UP whom your child can respect, who leads by example, and who loves their child enough to say a firm NO when they are acting stupid! Like I said earlier: when you are a parent, YOU are all that stands between your child and disaster until their brains are mature enough to make their own decisions.
Also, something you obviously don't know, or refuse to acknowledge, is the fact that marijuana is the gateway to harder drugs. So, when you say that this mother smoking pot with her kid "had only a positive influence", it tells me that you didn't pay attention to the end result.
I wonder if there would have been a different outcome, and 8 lives wouldn't have been needlessly destroyed in that mall if one or both parents had had a brain in their own heads and the courage to guide their son instead of running away from their responsibilities, trying to be his buddy and smoking dope with him!
