Good Kid gone bad.

On my last rant I went on about these constant killings. I have nothing but sadness for the loss of the 5 students at NIU and their families but I can't help but feel pity for the shooter. Why would I have pity you say? In short because I try to be a good Christian person; I'm no saint mind you. This week the shooter was cremated with no attendance, no service, nobody to mourn for him, nobody to love him and say good-bye. All the students had large services with thousands of mourners and damm well they should, but this poor guy had no one. Not even his father took the time to come up from Florida to pay his last respects. He was cremated and his ashes taken to an undisclosed location. Nobody to put flowers on his grave or brush off the head stone. Some would say this is what he deserves and maybe their right, but any true human must feel some sort of pity for this poor kid gone bad. I know I would never desert my children no matter what they had done. I will say a prayer for all the victims but most especially I will say a prayer this poor disturbed boy.

NIU School Killings

I am sick and tired of all these school killings that have come on since Columbine. What is wrong with these kids? I heard one comment on the news that these kids these days just can't take criticism or failure, but this murderer didn't fit that profile. A Graduate of NIU, on the Deans list, studying Sociology and peace, what the heck. Is it these violent games; are they living out the game in a fantasy world? These games go beyond violent; they are evil. Yes as a kid we watch movies like Spartacus, Ben Hur, John Wayne Butt kickers, and there was violence, but it wasn't evil. War is a fact of life; it is a horrible thing but it's not evil. War is people fighting for what they believe is right or protecting their way of life. The other possibility is terrorists are brainwashing our children. If you want to stop this you need to cut off the supply of weapons. Shutdown the black markets and Internet sale sites, prosecute the makers of these violent games. Daddyduck says get a grip society

Steroid Use

This is an excerpt sent to the Daily Herald on Roger Clemmens:

Is there anybody else out there that is sick and tired of these sport premadonnas. I say allow them all to use Steroids; let them all be super human. And who is congress to investigate; isn't that like the pot calling the kettle black. Other than a few standup politicians there all cheating crooks. Let the athletes stay in a drug induced metabolism highs; when there hearts, liver or other organs give out we'll just replace them, or when they are older and they don't have the metabolism high they will have to work all the harder to keep the flab off. Will we still love them; of course we will; as long as there are people stupid enough to watch them they'll keep paying them those outragious salaries (just like actors). if you really want to hurt them, send them back to the minors to learn what baseball was all about again.

When I decided to comment to the Daily Herald on this it brought up another rant idea on restrictions on planes that I think parallels this. Why restrict pen knifes on the planes; daddyduck says lets let the people arm themselves to the hilt. If someone pulls out a box cutter you pull out a Jim Bowie knife. This reminds me of Crocadile Dundee " Thats not a knife; Thats a knife" The parallism here is our way of handling things in the US is to punish the honest citizen. Your not stopping anything. Do you think you'll hurt the baseball player; Ha; they have made their millions what do they care. Daddyduck says start punishing the criminals and not the people. Who do you think pays for those congressional hearings.