Posted on 03/29/2018 4:56:59 AM PDT by MarvinStinson
Much true. When I was a kid I had all kinds of guns and ammo in my bedroom. If I even thought of chambering a round in the house Dad would have given me a .....stern look.
Mike Rowe will literally be crucified.
That is something people absolutely do not want to confront.
Mike Rowe. Spot on, once again.
Your comment reminds me of my dad. Never laid a hand on us. Just had to look at us & we got the message!
Can’t argue with his conclusions. The rampant divorce rate and the lack of stigma for out-of-wedlock childbirth have led to that.
Mike is right,
of course this will brand him a racist and a misogynist by the left.
Yes and no. The Columbine shooter had a very demanding father who was obviously concerned about him...and the kid started his spree by killing both his mother and the father. The same thing happened in WA a couple of years ago. The killer started by killing his parents.
I think a father is more likely to recognize than a mother that there’s something wrong with his kid that may need outside help, and possibly more effective in getting it. But really, the problem lies not only with family conditions but with social expectations. Once upon a time, a kid who was engaging in any of the behavior that led up to the killings would have been institutionalized, not only at the request of his parents, but at the request of schools and law enforcement.
Back in the 70s, some idiot (possibly Abbie Hoffman) announced that “only the mad were truly sane,” because they were reacting to the horrors of capitalism. And then we had books like One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and others that all made heroes out of the mentally ill, heroes who were just exercising their right to express themselves.
Mental illness is real, but we stopped admitting that because mental illness could be used as an attack upon capitalism and supposedly bourgeois, conformist American society. Of course, marriage, parents and intact families were all part of the evil against which the mentally ill were expressing themselves.
Emma Gonzalez spoke about how the MSD high school shooter was ostracised by her and others, and spoke about how he "deserved it." Isn't this a form of bullying?
Could one of the reasons these shooters are committing these acts also be because they've been bullied by the people/types of people they're killing?
And he got BLASTED for that.
Saying kids need father figures is racist and sexist.
My wife was told that in a teachers meeting the other day. She laughed.
Yes there are outliers in any population. Rowe’s point still stands.
Who needs fathers? The government will take care of you and your children! LBJ assured that.
Oh no Mike, don’t go there........... you will taking on the socialist, big government believers and abortion advocates, or as I like to call them the media!
Rowe speaks the truth!!!
“The Columbine shooter had a very demanding father who was obviously concerned about him...and the kid started his spree by killing both his mother and the father. The same thing happened in WA a couple of years ago. The killer started by killing his parents.”
Interesting. I didn’t know that.
Saying kids need father figures goes against the Soros Agenda.
I don’t think ‘literally’ means what you think it means.
Harris and Klebold didn't kill their parents prior to the Columbine shooting. Not sure of their current status, but both sets of parents were alive after the shooting in 1999.
No, they did not. Neither of the parents of Eric Harris nor Dylan Klebold were killed. Harris' father was a pilot in the Air Force. Klebold's dad was a pacifist.
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