marichiko

I agree with you 100% that this kid's actions were in excusable. I just wish the sensationalist media would get its facts straight. Its like crying "wolf" (sorry, Wolf, not you, of course), when something awful happens people tend not to believe it because everything has always been blown out of proportion in the past. And hell, you can poke out an eye with a pencil, too. What do the pro-gun people say? "Guns don't kill people, people kill people." I think this slogan is a cop out, but it does make some sense. Sure, we don't want kids bringing weapons to algebra class. Who needs another Columbine? But we need to resolve their motive for WANTING to bring guns to algebra class, as well. We should work on both these things.

And NOW to call Wolf: Wolf, I don't recall starting any thread specifically on the help given by the government to the disabled. Other people have started threads that were close to that and I remember starting that thread which asked a very general question about what is the correct response of a concerned person to percieved wrongs. Did I actually start a thread specifically about the disabled in the first post????? I don't remember it if I did. I guess I'm going to have to back and search through all my threads that I started now to see what I said. And what about Midol, anyhow? If you want to hijack the thread, I'd rather talk about sudafed, personally.