Paul Harvey read this, Letter to the Editor, on his news cast
yesterday. It seemed so timely that someone tracked it
down on the internet through the San Angelo Standard - Times. So
full credit for this article goes to them.

4/27/99
How can we blame it all on guns?

Editor:

For the life of me, I can't understand what could have gone wrong
in Littleton, Colo. If only the parents had kept their children
away from the guns, we wouldn't have had such a tragedy. Yeah, it
must have been the guns.

It couldn't have been because of half our children being raised in
broken homes.

It couldn't have been because our children get to spend an average
of 30 seconds in meaningful conversation with their parents each
day. After all, we give our children quality time.

It couldn't have been because we treat our children as pets and
our pets as children.

It couldn't have been because we place our children in day care
centers where they learn their socialization skills among their
peers under the law of the jungle while employees who have no
vested interest in the children look on and make sure that no
blood is spilled.

It couldn't have been because we allow our children to watch, on
average, seven hours of television a day filled with the
glorification of sex and violence that isn't fit for adult
consumption.

It couldn't have been because we allow our children to enter into
virtual worlds in which, to win the game, one must kill as many
opponents as possible in the most sadistic way possible.

It couldn't have been because we have sterilized and contracepted
our families down to sizes so small that the children we do have
are so spoiled with material things that they come to equate the
receiving of the material with love.

It couldn't have been because our children, who historically have
been seen as a blessing from God, are now being viewed as either a
mistake created when contraception fails or inconveniences that
parents try to raise in their spare time.

It couldn't have been because our nation is the world leader in
developing a culture of death in which 20 million to 30 million
babies have been killed by abortion.

It couldn't have been because we give two-year prison sentences to
teen-agers who kill their newborns.

It couldn't have been because our school systems teach the
children that they are nothing but glorified apes who have evolutionized
out of some primordial soup of mud by teaching evolution as fact and
by handing out condoms as if they were candy.

It couldn't have been because we teach our children that there are
no laws of morality that transcend us, that everything is relative
and that actions don't have consequences. What the heck, the
president gets away with it.

Nah, it must have been the guns.

Addison L. Dawson
San Angelo