Marilyn Lawson
19th November 2005, 07:23 AM (07:23)
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Makes me wonder = Do these kids have a life?
"Churches have to come to the table and stop being silent. We're not immune to the violence just because we're praising the Lord," he said."
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Why all the shootings? Why are the majority of shootings happening a few perticular groups of people? Why do they have to be in gangs to feel accepted?
http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20051118-011/page.asp
It might take this attack by 3 people on one youth, in a church - to finally make changes to our Justice system.
This Young Offenders Act is absoulte garbage.
I knew as a kid if I did something really bad - I was gonna get it!! And I I got it really good a few times - sometimes for things that were not my fault.
I knew if I went to court for something - I would go to reform school, and I was afraid to go there.
Now the kids get a slap on the hands.
When are kids held accountable to the things they do?
Is it now all out war and it doesn't matter where you are - even if it is in a house of God?
This story just sickens me.
Makes me scared as to what can happen when the rules become so light and ones that are now no longer enforcable by parents, schools or the police!!!
I live in one of the 'hot' areas within the city - and No I can't move - I will be able to one day.
Kids just sitting and plotting, getting stoned (not like it use to be, just to be happy - but to blank themselves out of reality), robbing people because it is easier than going to work at McDonalds.
No programs in some areas, mentors have all gone away, people afraid to step up and say 'You are wrong - help us', 'Let's change the area we live in', or how about the sinmple fact of excepting people and inviting them to your house and show them that someone cares.
I see kids standing outrside like a vultures crowding together. Playing dice, smoking, puffing on joints, when they should be in school.
Many parents can't have any influence on the kids - and in many cases, parents have lost the control of the situation - via peer groups, laws put on them, and fear from CAS stepping in and charging them if they withhold anything froim kids.
I worry about Kevin, Robert & John - not forgetting my grandkids that will now grow up in this world!!
Who's kid is next? How many more are going to be put into the ground, before things change?
Just a point of view.
Marilyn:gen06
Makes me wonder = Do these kids have a life?
"Churches have to come to the table and stop being silent. We're not immune to the violence just because we're praising the Lord," he said."
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1132354213877&call_pageid=968332188492&col=968793972154
Why all the shootings? Why are the majority of shootings happening a few perticular groups of people? Why do they have to be in gangs to feel accepted?
http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Story/20051118-011/page.asp
It might take this attack by 3 people on one youth, in a church - to finally make changes to our Justice system.
This Young Offenders Act is absoulte garbage.
I knew as a kid if I did something really bad - I was gonna get it!! And I I got it really good a few times - sometimes for things that were not my fault.
I knew if I went to court for something - I would go to reform school, and I was afraid to go there.
Now the kids get a slap on the hands.
When are kids held accountable to the things they do?
Is it now all out war and it doesn't matter where you are - even if it is in a house of God?
This story just sickens me.
Makes me scared as to what can happen when the rules become so light and ones that are now no longer enforcable by parents, schools or the police!!!
I live in one of the 'hot' areas within the city - and No I can't move - I will be able to one day.
Kids just sitting and plotting, getting stoned (not like it use to be, just to be happy - but to blank themselves out of reality), robbing people because it is easier than going to work at McDonalds.
No programs in some areas, mentors have all gone away, people afraid to step up and say 'You are wrong - help us', 'Let's change the area we live in', or how about the sinmple fact of excepting people and inviting them to your house and show them that someone cares.
I see kids standing outrside like a vultures crowding together. Playing dice, smoking, puffing on joints, when they should be in school.
Many parents can't have any influence on the kids - and in many cases, parents have lost the control of the situation - via peer groups, laws put on them, and fear from CAS stepping in and charging them if they withhold anything froim kids.
I worry about Kevin, Robert & John - not forgetting my grandkids that will now grow up in this world!!
Who's kid is next? How many more are going to be put into the ground, before things change?
Just a point of view.
Marilyn:gen06