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This is a security issue because being so morally depraved makes us more vulnerable. Really violent games are very detrimental to the spirtual well being of our country. I think this is more important then trying to reform education, because issues like these are at the root of children not being motivated to learn. I think No Child Left Behind is a lousy idea because it doesn’t get at the root of the problem. I am not saying this is the only root, but it is one of the roots. I respect Mitt for his vision and I am sure this comes from being a life-long family man with strong spirtual roots. You can degrade him if you want to, but it won’t change the way I see it.

Those who shoot up our schools have already been diagnosed and treated for clinical depression. It isn’t the video games that make them kill.

They should be institutionalized (and this can be done at home with family and a leg bracelet). They are not able to walk among a free society. I hear that they a “functioning” members of society. This is false. When they rape and gun down the masses they are malfunctioning. They are able to PASS as functional members of society.

If we are going to say that the mentally ill are unaccountable for their actions because of mental problems, then they should be in the presence of their legal guardian who is accountable for where they go and the guns they buy.

“This is a security issue because being so morally depraved makes us more vulnerable. Really violent games are very detrimental to the spirtual well being of our country. I think this is more important then trying to reform education, because issues like these are at the root of children not being motivated to learn. I think No Child Left Behind is a lousy idea because it doesn’t get at the root of the problem. I am not saying this is the only root, but it is one of the roots. I respect Mitt for his vision and I am sure this comes from being a life-long family man with strong spirtual roots. You can degrade him if you want to, but it won’t change the way I see it.”

Video games are not the root of any problem. The problem is bad parents. The root of this problem has been the same since the beginning of humanity: the sinful nature of man. See what your father does that is sinful, but don’t do as he does. Therefore, your children won’t do it. Make yourself like Christ as much as you can, and your children will have a good role model. If an adult has no control over his sinful passions, then his children will have even less control over theirs.

There is one, maybe two video games in the history of such games that has content that is truly morally disturbing. Yet, that content is nothing compared to the standard fare of prime time television shows. Even more frightening, children will be exposed to worse morality in an average public school. You can try to ban all entertainment rated R and above, but how do you ban the bad morality in life itself?

If you care enough about your children to feel the need to protect them from moral corruption, you need to monitor everything they watch, listen to, and play. You must also home school them and have at least one parent at home with them at all times. It goes without saying that you need to have both a mother and father for every child, those parents must be practicing Christians, and they must be married in a Christ centered relationship. As an added bonus, children raised this way will be better schooled than the public school valedictorian.

This is the only way that will repair the spiritual well being of America. No law or other quick fix will work. With an upbringing as described above though, our children will have no interest in bad morality to begin with.