Fwd: FW: Yeah, it must have been the guns. (fwd)

[Guest guest]

Hey Crew, I received this today and eventhough I don't agree with some of

the stuff it's saying, it does make you think.

Mark

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>>

>> Harvey read this letter to the Editor on his news cast the other

day.

>>It seemed so timely that it was tracked it down on the internet

>>through the San Angelo Standard - Times. So I give them full credit for

this

>>article.

>>

>> " For the life of me, I can't understand what could have gone wrong in

>>Littleton, Colorado. If only the parents had kept their children away

from

>>the guns, we wouldn't have had such a tragedy.

>>

>>Yeah, it must have been the guns.

>>

>>It couldn't have been because of half our children being raised in broken

>>homes.

>>

>>It couldn't have been because our children get to spend an average of 30

>>seconds in meaningful conversation with their parents each day.

>>

>>After all, we give our children quality time.

>>

>>It couldn't have been because we treat our children as pets and our pets

as

>>children.

>>

>>It couldn't have been because we place our children in day care centers

>>where they learn their socialization skills among their peers under the

law

>>of the jungle while employees who have no vested interest in the children

>>look on and make sure that no blood is spilled.

>>

>>It couldn't have been because we allow our children to watch, on average,

>>seven hours of television a day filled with the glorification of sex and

>>violence that isn't fit for adult consumption.

>>

>>It couldn't have been because we allow our children to enter into virtual

>>worlds in which, to win the game, one must kill as many opponents as

>>possible in the most sadistic way possible.

>>

>>It couldn't have been because we have sterilized and contracepted our

>>families down to sizes so small that the children we do have are so

spoiled

>>with material things that they come to equate the receiving of the

material

>>with love.

>>

>>It couldn't have been because our children, who historically have been

seen

>>as a blessing from God, are now being viewed as either a mistake created

>>when contraception fails or inconveniences that parents try to raise in

>>their spare time.

>>

>>It couldn't have been because our nation is the world leader in

developing a

>>culture of death in which 20 million to 30 million babies have been

killed

>>by abortion.

>>

>>It couldn't have been because we give two-year prison sentences to

>>teen-agers who kill their newborns.

>>

>>It couldn't have been because our school systems teach the children that

>>they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized out of some

>>primordial soup of mud by teaching evolution as fact and by handing out

>>condoms as if they were candy.

>>

>>It couldn't have been because we teach our children that there are no

laws

>>of morality that transcend us, that everything is relative and that

actions

>>don't have consequences.

>

>>

>>What the heck, the president gets away with it.

>>

>>Nah, it must have been the guns.

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