Section Two: Sanchez

Guns don’t kill people; parents kill people

By: Halie Sanchez

Published November 17, 2009

Not saying that every American who does not own a gun is going to be raped; we have the IRS for that, but if you were a burglar, and you happened to know that a certain city had a high gun to resident ratio, then you may not break into any houses in that neighborhood. But there still may be a shooting in that neighborhood school. What we need to do is stop and think, is that due to the high rate of gun ownership?

People have ALWAYS had guns, but did anyone ever notice that when parents started shooting blanks that the kids started shooting at each other?

You can blame it on video games, Marilyn Manson, Hollywood or the Teletubbies but when it comes down to it, it’s YOUR responsibility Mommy and Daddy to make sure not only little Jimmy does not FIND the gun (What a good idea, keeping a 9-year old away from firearms?) but also that he can properly express himself and speak out; so he does not get bullied and then feel the need to get the gun from the poor hiding place in the top dresser drawer and voice his feelings.

According to Susan Guisine, over the last 15 years, more than 350 people died in school shootings. Many more were injured. Between 1992 and 1998, the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice recorded 226 deaths from school shootings. Figures from the Children's Defense Fund and the National Center for Health Statistics revealed that between 1979 and 2001, gunshots killed 90,000 teenagers in America.

Schools stop trying to worry about how to budget in metal detectors for the entrance, and make one for bad parenting. A critical rule should be that if a parent walks through that door, and it goes off, well then they should just be thrown out. It will be a very similar technique to the Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory Movie. (You know, the bad eggs and the good eggs?) Gun Control can’t fix bad parenting, but this method is guaranteed.

So parents, stop being lazy, turn off the TV, give up the extra car or motorboat – take some time off work, pick the kid up from daycare (where he may or may not be getting molested) and take him for a stroll in the park. (Unless you live in San Francisco and homeless people use the park system as one huge opium den)