In light of the horrendous school shootings in the last few months, we have seen an increase of fear among our children that is just heartbreaking, but truly justified. And everyone is looking at answers to stop the slaughter. Unfortunately, I believe our well-intentioned schools/students are looking in the wrong places.
Blaming guns for these terrible slaughters makes stopping them look fairly easy. Take away the guns, take away the problem!
Unfortunately, there are many cities/towns and even nations that have tried this and the truth is, while taking away guns may indeed stop some deaths, the problems run much deeper than that.
On a visit to my grandparents’ home country of Norway a few years ago, my grandfather took me out to one of his potato-growing fields to show me the 4-foot-thick cement walled “building” the Nazis had built on his property during World War II, as a “resting place” for the soldiers while they were either shooting/killing the farmers or destroying their farms and disarming them.
The citizens in Norway were left defenseless when their personal guns were taken away (by the government of Norway, in its earlier days of the war). A defenseless citizenry was seen, earlier on, as a way of destroying their o ...
