Amen! Wasn’t a mere two days before the Newtown incident that a radical Hollywood actor by the name of Jamie Fox delivered his rant “to kill all white people, to kill their parents, their grandparents, yes, even to kill their little kids.” And the Media gave worldwide publicity to it all. The mainstream Media never condemned him. anyone can easily guess why. Only Fox gave it a hearing, and it would not turn it loose.

In the case of the incident in Newtown, I take a little different perspective. The Media kept interviewing people who said that they could not understand why Adam could be prompted to do such a thing and that he must have had a criminal mind and even crazy. The young man was a very smart kid. He certainly knew how to use a weapon, and he knew how to shoot for a 20 year ole. He wasn’t crazy, and he had no “criminal” mind. The problems of Adam can be traced directly to the divorce of his parents. Both brothers were devestated by that divorce. The older brother was lucky. He moved out of the house and went off to college shortly after his parent’s divorce, but Adam, the younger, was forced to stay in the house with his mother whom he increasingly, in his own mind, determined to be most at fault in the divorce and in his own personal situation. The root cause was the divorce, the failure to resolve the problems of the divorce afterward, and perhaps the problems in the relationship of the parents that let up to the divorce. It had nothing to do with guns. The Mom was a survivalist. That’s okay. She probably needed to be after the divorce when she was living in a big house alone with two young boys. She obviously did not handle it very well. Although she obviously did a marvelous job of teaching Adam how to use the weapons, she did not secure them, and she obviously did not teach him the rudiments of gun safety as well as the evil that the guns can do.

The most scary thing about the entire incident is that this lady worked as a teacher in the public school system. Yike! And the public school administration did not even know what was going on. It may really be time to consider home schooling, or, at least, church schools. At least, the church schools undergird their education with a grounding of Christian and religious truth that will serve as a foundation later for the student as he or she sort all the various information received and decide between good and evil. If I had a kid today, he or she would be either home schooled or sent to a Christian school. It’s that simple. I’m done with the public schools in the USA.

You want hear in the Media about the divorce being the root cause of the Newtown incident. Instead I’m afraid you will see a movement to turn our schools into fortified fortresses with steel bars on every window and door, metal detectors at every entrance, and cameras every few yards at a cost of millions of dollars. I can see it now. Come to America where your kids will receive a free, quality education inside a prison barred from the outside world without even mentioning that the real problem is within ourselves and within our homes that produce the kids.

Since my earlier comments were not posted I would like to mention this – recent stories confirm that the shooter’s mother was not, nor had ever been, a public school teacher – in fact it turns out she home schooled her son. So Errol it seems that this, like so many of your comments on this blog, is complete and utter hogwash.

I’m sorry, I did not address Jerry’s public school teacher commit. No, I am not suggesting that all public school teachers, any particular teachers, or public schools in general were at fault in the Newtown case. I only suggested that the administration of this particular Newtown school did not know what was going on when it allowed this divorced woman who was maintaining an arsenal of high powered weapons in her home and training her son to use them without the proper discipline of background instruction, to come into the school and serve as an instructor or teacher’s assistant inside the school. I realize that the administration probably had no way of knowing about the home situation of this particular person, but it is my view that it would be much less likely to occur in a church school where all the teachers and the administration are thorougly grounded in the Christian faith and are vetted by that faith long before accepting a job to teach or work in a parochial school.