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Originally posted by CB328
This is ridiculous- the guy was shot in the back. More weapons don't make society safer, just the opposite. If guns were rare gun crime would be rare too.
Originally posted by resoe26
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by jefwane
Or they are illegal aliens, if you live in California and looking at mainstream media.
It's gotten to the point that you can identify the the group a suspect belongs to by the omission of this fact.
The fact that they were posting their "exploits" on Facebook indicates that there is a thug culture that supports randomly killing people just because they are white, what they call "polar bear hunting".
Lack of gun laws is not the problem because, according to already existing laws, none of them should have owned a gun.edit on 20-8-2013 by jmdewey60 because: (no reason given)
Polar Bear Hunting?
When did that term spring up? Never heard of it before.
Beginning in 1985, there was a steady growth in the use of guns by juveniles in committing murder. Id. The number of juvenile murders committed with guns more than doubled from 1985 to 1992. Id.
Juvenile gang killings are the fastest growing type of homicide, increasing almost four hundred percent since 1980. Murder in America: Recommendations from the IACP Murder Summit, International Association of Chiefs of Police (May, 1995).
Juvenile arrests for weapon law violations more than doubled between 1983 and 1992. H. Snyder and M. Sickmund, supra. During this time period, adult arrests for weapons offenses increased by twenty-one percent, while juvenile arrests climbed one hundred seventeen percent. Id.
Drug arrest rates for juveniles, especially for non-whites, are rising as well. The arrests of juvenile drug offenders began to move upward in the early 1980's, and then accelerated significantly after 1985 as the distribution of crack coc aine became widespread. A. Blumstein, supra.
Obviously this is a term not allowed to be used in mainstream media, so is something I learned on "alternative" media, namely, Republic Broadcasting.
Polar Bear Hunting?
When did that term spring up? Never heard of it before.
This is what you get when you become a society of "no consequences."
You can't discipline your child any more. That's child abuse.
30 years ago, more kids had to work, if they wanted a car, special clothing, ect. Now, it seems to be a rare thing, them having to work for anything, and there sure are more material things for them to covet.
Originally posted by jmdewey60
reply to post by resoe26
Obviously this is a term not allowed to be used in mainstream media, so is something I learned on "alternative" media, namely, Republic Broadcasting.
Polar Bear Hunting?
When did that term spring up? Never heard of it before.
There are a couple of pro Second Amendment shows on that network where they talk about what the real threats are out there and why people should be armed.
. . . involves attacking a victim from behind with no warning.
But in an Islamic nation where they publicly execute people for murder I doubt these kids wouldn't have been able to find something else to do when they were bored.
Originally posted by silo13
reply to post by Antipathy17
You’re right - it isn’t just parenting. It’s everything. You can’t look around without sex, violence and filth spewing right before your eyes. There’s nothing decent left in the world - or very little. No attempt made at giving ‘youth’ anything decent to follow. Anything wholesome and good.
(The rest of this post isn't necessarily directed at you Antipathy)
And yeah, I’m going to say it - and why - because the facts of history prove it. The USA opted out of Christianity and look what it got them. If you don’t like my opinion I could give a flying Frisbee. Facts are facts. Wake up people. You might not like it - you might think you’re oh so witty and suave to joke about God as the ‘imaginary friend in the sky’ but you know what? You’re wrong.
And if you’re not? Follow the filth. Follow it right back to when the USA was a good place to live. Where kids had respect and cared. Follow the filth right back to what - that times changes when the Church and Family was juggled way down the list of priorities after television, video games, head-banger hate music, free-sex, etc.
If you don’t believe it’s the lack of practicing Christianity that has the USA (humanity) in the mess it‘s in? How about telling us what you think the cause may be. That would be an interesting debate. You already know where I’m coming from. Have at it.
peace
but it sounds like something else when you read through the whole story. A few parts that don't seemingly fit the "bored" statement
A young Australian man who was in the US on a baseball scholarship is dead because three bored teenagers decided to kill somebody for fun
They went looking for a target, and decided on this guy.
"They saw Christopher go by, and one of them said: 'There's our target,"
As pointed out below, only one kid made this statement.
"The boy who has talked to us said, 'We were bored and didn't have anything to do, so we decided to kill somebody.'
When police eventually arrested the three teens -- ages 15, 16 and 17 -- one of them offered up a motive that made clear that Lane, who attended East Central University on a baseball scholarship, was chosen at random
Originally posted by silo13
But, trying to salvage something from this discussion - If it’s not the lack of the Church then what is it? The lack of caring? The lack of backbone - something every American seems to be suffering from. What is it that would send three young men out to shoot and kill someone for FUN?
peace
Originally posted by OneManArmy
Originally posted by silo13
But, trying to salvage something from this discussion - If it’s not the lack of the Church then what is it? The lack of caring? The lack of backbone - something every American seems to be suffering from. What is it that would send three young men out to shoot and kill someone for FUN?
peace
A lack of moral guidance, the job of the parents. No one else is as wholly responsible for a child's moral compass than their parents. If the parents leave the kid's to sit in front of tv watching the brain corrupting drivel all day, then that is their responsibility.
Society has a propensity to outsource responsibility. Its a blame culture, its always someone else's fault.
Its the school's fault, it's the media's fault, it's mtv's fault, its that damn rock n roll, or that damn hip hop.
But no, it's collectively societies fault, because art/media is a reflection of society, and so are the action's of it's "people". Society allowed an overtly corrupt and ruthless political elite to make a lot of money in corporate back-handers to be a mouthpiece for big business, and not a mouthpiece for the people.
People need to stop expecting a government to fix this mess, and work together in their own local communities to fix it themselves. Building some youth clubs would be the first step in the right direction.
True, but when I was growing up I was more afraid of my 6'4' 250 lb. father's backhand than a God I could only imagine in church once a week.