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October 12, 2007, 12:23 am PDT

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I was not going to respond with a comment because people with opinions like yours are the ones who feed the ignorance of others.

Yes, you are permitted an opinion but opinions are like mouths, everyone has one. Just not everyone knows when to keep it shut.

Regulating guns has not made one ounce of difference in how many innocent people are killed by the stupidity of others. It is still happening everyday. There is nothing any one of us can do to change the way things are unless those of us who have children start doing better jobs of parenting and begin teaching our children the difference between right and wrong and  the value of life.  Everything comes down to free will and our ability to make the right decisions. God gave us all the ability to make the "choice". What you "choose" comes from what you are taught growing up. Too many of our children are left alone without supervision, abandoned, or learn from the examples shown by others.

So, I am not  going to take on the responsibility of being my brother's keeper or raise everyone else's child when it is a full time job tending my own family which includes a nine year old and three grandchildren.  Maybe if others tended their own "gardens"  and made sure that they were fed and weeded instead of worrying about everyone elses' then maybe we could start seeing some of the problems being solved before they take root.  Bring the Bible back to your homes/tables and into your children. As it has always been taught, "He is the Way, Truth and the Light".

I was doing pretty good with your reply...

 

But I could not get around this.

 

You said,"

I was not going to respond with a comment because people with opinions like yours are the ones who feed the ignorance of others.

Yes, you are permitted an opinion but opinions are like mouths, everyone has one. Just not everyone knows when to keep it shut.

 

Sir,

 

The Christians I know do not speak to me like that whether they agree with me or not. How can you expect for me to respect you and consider your reply using that tone with me?

 

I agree with much of what you said, Parents are important beyond measure.

 

I will not accept or consider the replies of writers with bad manners.

 

 
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October 12, 2007, 3:34 am PDT

Well Said

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I was not going to respond with a comment because people with opinions like yours are the ones who feed the ignorance of others.

Yes, you are permitted an opinion but opinions are like mouths, everyone has one. Just not everyone knows when to keep it shut.

Regulating guns has not made one ounce of difference in how many innocent people are killed by the stupidity of others. It is still happening everyday. There is nothing any one of us can do to change the way things are unless those of us who have children start doing better jobs of parenting and begin teaching our children the difference between right and wrong and  the value of life.  Everything comes down to free will and our ability to make the right decisions. God gave us all the ability to make the "choice". What you "choose" comes from what you are taught growing up. Too many of our children are left alone without supervision, abandoned, or learn from the examples shown by others.

So, I am not  going to take on the responsibility of being my brother's keeper or raise everyone else's child when it is a full time job tending my own family which includes a nine year old and three grandchildren.  Maybe if others tended their own "gardens"  and made sure that they were fed and weeded instead of worrying about everyone elses' then maybe we could start seeing some of the problems being solved before they take root.  Bring the Bible back to your homes/tables and into your children. As it has always been taught, "He is the Way, Truth and the Light".

This is my feeling too...Parents need to stop being afraid of their children and start raising them properly. It isn't the governments job to raise our children,they have enough to do. It is us as parents and extended family who are to raise our children. By this I mean, it is my husbands and my job to make sure our daughters know right from wrong,that it isn't right to take break the law. That it isn't proper to us the "f" word ever in conversation or any other inappropriate word in conversation.

 As a society we seem to think that someone else will take care of everything...it does take a village to raise our blessings,but the village starts with the family unit(mom,dad or just mom or just dad) to take the responisiblity and to STOP making excuses,yes it is hard to be a single parent, I was one too..but my adult daughter,never disrespected anyone. Yes it is hard  to raise children, darn it is hard to keep a marriage going..it is call work. Life isn't easy, we have a lost generation of children because people have given up on training them well. I agree bring the Bible back, in our home it is the focal point...also monitor your children when they are watching television,on the computer and with their friends.

 Thank you for your time

 
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October 12, 2007, 8:54 am PDT

10/12 Homecoming Shooting

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I was not going to respond with a comment because people with opinions like yours are the ones who feed the ignorance of others.

Yes, you are permitted an opinion but opinions are like mouths, everyone has one. Just not everyone knows when to keep it shut.

Regulating guns has not made one ounce of difference in how many innocent people are killed by the stupidity of others. It is still happening everyday. There is nothing any one of us can do to change the way things are unless those of us who have children start doing better jobs of parenting and begin teaching our children the difference between right and wrong and  the value of life.  Everything comes down to free will and our ability to make the right decisions. God gave us all the ability to make the "choice". What you "choose" comes from what you are taught growing up. Too many of our children are left alone without supervision, abandoned, or learn from the examples shown by others.

So, I am not  going to take on the responsibility of being my brother's keeper or raise everyone else's child when it is a full time job tending my own family which includes a nine year old and three grandchildren.  Maybe if others tended their own "gardens"  and made sure that they were fed and weeded instead of worrying about everyone elses' then maybe we could start seeing some of the problems being solved before they take root.  Bring the Bible back to your homes/tables and into your children. As it has always been taught, "He is the Way, Truth and the Light".

Amen!! My kids have always had play guns in fact my 7 yr old and my two 10year olds all have air soft guns. My husband and I have taught them gun safety and respect for not only others, but the gun too! Unlike all of their friends, my boys do not run around shooting each other. They go out into the back yard and shoot at the practice target. I have two smaller children also and while teaching the older boys safety we are teaching the younger ones too. They know when someone has a gun they must stay behind the person with the gun.

 

I believe information is the key, knowledge is imparitive! It's not a gun who kills, it's the ignorant person behind it who does. The person holds not only life with no reguard, but has not been taught right from wrong!!! I believe that as parents we must help our children to make their own right decissions. We have always asked out kids what they think they could do to make a situation better and then hold them to it.

 

 

 

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October 12, 2007, 2:29 pm PDT

10/12 Homecoming Shooting

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I was not going to respond with a comment because people with opinions like yours are the ones who feed the ignorance of others.

Yes, you are permitted an opinion but opinions are like mouths, everyone has one. Just not everyone knows when to keep it shut.

Regulating guns has not made one ounce of difference in how many innocent people are killed by the stupidity of others. It is still happening everyday. There is nothing any one of us can do to change the way things are unless those of us who have children start doing better jobs of parenting and begin teaching our children the difference between right and wrong and  the value of life.  Everything comes down to free will and our ability to make the right decisions. God gave us all the ability to make the "choice". What you "choose" comes from what you are taught growing up. Too many of our children are left alone without supervision, abandoned, or learn from the examples shown by others.

So, I am not  going to take on the responsibility of being my brother's keeper or raise everyone else's child when it is a full time job tending my own family which includes a nine year old and three grandchildren.  Maybe if others tended their own "gardens"  and made sure that they were fed and weeded instead of worrying about everyone elses' then maybe we could start seeing some of the problems being solved before they take root.  Bring the Bible back to your homes/tables and into your children. As it has always been taught, "He is the Way, Truth and the Light".

Opinions are opinions and we are ALL entitled to share one, whether it's agreed upon or not.  You don't have the right to bash opinions you do not agree.  You can disagree all you want, but not with ignorance.  AND, as for gun regulation, is most certainly HAS helped with shootings.  Yes, they still happen every day, but the less that buy a gun on a moment's notice, the less that can use them in violence.  Check your facts.

 


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