Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:41:31
Columbine Copycats in Canada
Not to be too flippant, but weren’t we led by Mikey to believe that this kind of thing couldn’t happen in Canada?
Three teenage boys have been arrested for allegedly conspiring to seize control of a school and methodically murder some of its students and teachers.
Police found gunpowder and other material used for making pipe bombs at the boys’ homes and believe the youths had practised making bombs.
The boys, aged 15 to 17, were Saint John air cadets and their alleged plot was planned for April 20, the anniversary of the 1999 Columbine High School massacre where 12 students and a teacher were killed.
At a Saint John bail hearing for the two eldest teenagers on Wednesday, police Constable Rick Russell said the boys were plotting a “planned takeover” of Saint John High where one of the boys is a pupil. The other two are from Harbourview High.
He said the boys had been practising making bombs for some time, and were planning to attack the school’s administration offices with explosives, where they intended to kill the principal and other officials with bombs and guns. He said the boys then planned to order a list of “hated” students into the offices, one by one, to be executed.
Const. Russell said police had found writing by the boys naming the people they planned to kill.
He said the 17-year-old had also written: “I hate my life ... I hate everyone.”
The thing we all need to remember is that it’s easy to point to a place and say “See, they do things better.” Well, the truth is no one is doing things much better than anyone else, and almost no nation on earth has the same challenges we face as a society in America. From the sense of entitlement to the clashings of culture to the fact that we grant mankind the freedoms he so deserves (well...we grant *some* of them. Not enough of them.), we allow things no other nation allows and we mix cultures in a way that no other nation does. It’s simply not accurate or fair to compare the United States to any other nation when it comes to controlling the population in any meaningful way.
But Mikey did it. He tried to tell us in “Bowling for Columbine” that Canada was doing it better.
But they aren’t. Why? Because it’s not the guns. It’s not satellite delivery missiles. It’s not Charleton Heston or Dick Clark or the culture of fear or the Michigan Militia.
There are two primary reasons why kids decide to kill people in a grand and horrifying way. Those two things are brain chemistry and parenting. Some kids, through nature or nurture, have bad brain chemistry. Emotional problems feed off of and feed into that chemistry and the whole thing becomes this exponential growth. Couple that with parents that simply don’t care and you end up with a recipe for disaster.
You want to make certain your child is not one of these kids? Be a better parent. Get involved in your kids life even if they hate you for it. Your kid only needs enough privacy to develop a sense of independance. They should not be able to build pipe bombs and saw off shotguns in their bedroom the way the Columbine kids did. Music and video games have no negative effects on a healthy child raised by loving, involved parents.
If your child is wired wrong, seek professional help. There are very few conditions that cannot be treated. Now, that doesn’t mean stick a Prozac in their mouths and plop them in front of the Xbox. It means ongoing care and evaluation, something you signed up for when you gave birth to a child.
Brain chemistry and parenting. It doesn’t matter if you’re Canadian with your door unlocked or a Republican in the States with 73 guns and a job at a weapons manufacturer. You can raise your child right. Healthy kids with good parents don’t kill their classmates and teachers. Period.
And if you ignore your children and let the school, TV and Internet babysit them...and God forbid they have something just a bit off in their head and these ideas take root...you’ll never find out until it’s too late. That is an international truth. Canadians are not immune, no matter what Mikey tries to sell tell you.
Posted by JimK at 11:41 PM on March 18, 2005
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#1 Posted by Alex
on 03/19 at 10:33 PM -
You want to make certain your child is not one of these kids? Be a better
I am going to submit your name for a Nobel price in parenting Jim! Forget a book about parenting. This is all you need to know to make sure your kids don’t grow up to be axe murderers or rapists. Wish parents had to pass a test proving they knew this simple truth before they culd have kids, and we would not have these little monsters running around.