Posted on 02/15/2018 5:18:41 PM PST by ml/nj
I don't know. I'm asking.
I graduated high school in 1964. During the entire time I was in school Wikipedia reports that there was one incident where three people were killed in US schools, and none where two people were killed. There was an average somewhere between one and two incidents a year where one was killed.
Guns were MUCH MORE AVAILABLE then. Schools had rifle teams. I shot an untethered .22 at Coney Island. I shot guns at Boy Scout Camp. Anyone who thinks that more gun restrictions now would help is oblivious to this.
We also played with make-believe guns. My cap pistols looked like real guns. We played Cowboys and Indians. I'm not a fan of the shoot-em up video games, but it's hard to see how they are very different from the games I played.
So, what's different? Movies and TV shows are different. Respect for the US is different. Victim mentality is different. Respect for religion is different. There's a lot more welfare and a lot more taxes. Manners are different, or non-existent. I think government schools are different, but I haven't been in one for 50+ years so I'm just guessing.
We need to return to what worked. Continuing with more great solutions that make things worse strikes me as the wrong way to approach the problem we have.
ML/NJ
OTOH...yes, I fully agree with you...re sperm donators.
That spirit was already in the air but obama opened the door to a full fledged war against us and our country. This nation stands in the way of world dominion ... the hate for our President (who is shown to be the most conservative and the most Christian like man who has ever held the office) and they on the left are not happy.. neither is that spirit that is their master. Trump is in their way and the whole world is against him and what he is doing. Ya wonder how he stands in it and does not crumble or quit.... we, out here... we know and we love our President! I think God is pleased.
And our mothers told us if we kept doing that we would go blind.
later
war on God and Christian worldview by libtards
1. God out of schools/ government/ and society.
2. Men destroyed for being men in our schools and in society in general. The MSM depicts men as bumbling idiots. Comparing Father Knows Best to the Cosby show for example.
3. Ending the draft. Men serving in the military forced many of them to grow up and trained them valuable life skills, like how to work. So instead, men went on to higher education, which brainwashed them into the liberal mindset.
4. Common sense was common back in the 50s and 60. Kids today rarely have a lick of sense.
About the same time honor died, discipline in schools and even among the adult population declined sharply. If it feels good, do it, became more the norm than self-discipline. All those "Victorian" social norms that people of our generation (I graduated in '64 too) threw out as old-fashioned were actually vital to societal well-being.
The gradual rise of ever more violent, trashy, vulgar entertainment hasn't helped.
Giving psychotropic drugs to young children, especially boys, has been a disaster, as has been the rise of destructive efforts to deny the differences between boys and girls. It used to be "boys will be boys," but now it's "boys can't be boys, but girls can."
Another cause is our complete failure to provide safe institutions for the genuine mentally ill among us, and provide reasonable, well regulated means to have someone committed against their will when truly necessary.
1. God out of schools/ government/ and society.
2. Men destroyed for being men in our schools and in society in general. The MSM depicts men as bumbling idiots. Comparing Father Knows Best to the Cosby show for example.
3. Ending the draft. Men serving in the military forced many of them to grow up and trained them valuable life skills, like how to work. So instead, men went on to higher education, which brainwashed them into the liberal mindset.
4. Common sense was common back in the 50s and 60. Kids today rarely have a lick of sense.
When I went to high school in the mid 1950’s we were not allowed to be discourteous to our teachers or each other. We were assigned homework and totally expected to turn it in; we were allowed to take advance placement courses when it was clear we were ready regardless of our “year” in school. Those courses kept us “busy”. Our relationships with boys was “shy” mostly...until we got older. I loved it. The society within which I lived was not one of drinkers and philanderers but serious men and women who took their kids camping and square dancing.
I am so grateful for my schools and what my parents tried to do and what they were successfull doing.
back then You prayed and read the bible in school everyday. that and schools actually taught kids real stuff. Now we need to just ban schools
Sending a child to a Public school is a form of Abuse.
So many Liberal teachers in my family, all sent their kids to Catholic Schools, as did I. We agree on Nothing... they have “seen” what I have not.
Umm .,yes, that is true, but none of us exposed our kids to Public Schools.
The Irony is Rich.
Guns were MUCH MORE AVAILABLE then. Schools had rifle teams. I shot an untethered .22 at Coney Island. I shot guns at Boy Scout Camp. Anyone who thinks that more gun restrictions now would help is oblivious to this.
We were raised to respect firearms not fear them. They were ordinary tools not mythologized demonic instruments. The rest of the answer is we were more likely to be raised with respect for others in general.
Vatican II
Perhaps President Trump is this generation’s Elijah?
When you grew up, guns were still legal. Schools had gun clubs. You could still hunt squirrels in the city of Chicago. Nearly all children lived with both parents. There were hardly any illegals. There were a lot of veterans of WW1, WW2 and Korea running around who’d kill you if you messed with their kids. When they got on juries they’d find eahother acted in self-defense.
The main difference is that God is no longer allowed in the schools.
Oh, the head of the school that my kids went to, was no one to mess with. It was me.
It cant be lack of prayer in the schools. There was absolutely zero prayer in public schools when I was young and there were no school shooters.
By the way, the first school shooter I ever heard of (because I hadnt heard of that guy shooting from the bell tower) was in the 1980s in a small town in Switzerland when I lived there. An older kid, high school age, went back to his elementary school and shot himself in the head in the night on the playground there in a dramatic suicide attempt, lived through it and shot himself again after, leaving his body to be found by people coming to school the next day. It just seemed like the most ghastly thing in the world at the time.
My first two sons and all of their friends played / play those shooter games and NONE of them are violent young men now. Two are in the military, Air Force and they are all great kids.
The planned (and partly successful) attack on the two-parent nuclear family unit.
It’s changed tremendously since the 80’s and 90’s too.
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