[graciegirl]

It is as foolish to blame the NRA as it is to not see that it is HOW are children are raised now. We don't give them a gun, we give them computers that allow them to know the good and the evil of the planet and explore it without us. We turn them over wearing diapers to people that we would not allow to drive our cars. We think that they are only influenced when we pick them up after nine hours of being taught by people with totally different value systems. We think that the big house, the fine car, the great clothes and the delivered meals make up for not spending time with our babies during their six important formative years.

We have choices as a people and a society. I don't condemn our lawmakers as much as I condemn those who look down on people who are moral and have values and who believe in God. Or don't believe in God but have morals and values and ethics. It isn't what we TELL our children, it is who they are WITH, that they will become. They are denied the redirection they need as toddlers not to bully others, or the sitting on the hearth or with their noses in the corners because who would allow someone else to punish their children for kicking another four year old, or taking their toys and laughing? We don't even KNOW when this happens and worse yet, we are no longer taught as adults that this time of their lives is important in their formation of character.

We don't even know. We give them away unprotected and expect them to figure this little big world out for themselves. We only start to worry about their mental health and values long after they are harmed or formed in early childhood. Worrying about teenagers is TOO LATE.

The hands that rock the cradles, or DON'T rock the cradles, rule the world.