http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/12/16/could-sandy-hook-shooting-be-a-gun-control-tipping-point/ Just another eSchool Media site Thu, 10 Jan 2013 16:37:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/12/16/could-sandy-hook-shooting-be-a-gun-control-tipping-point/comment-page-1/#comment-169324 mrone Mon, 17 Dec 2012 19:12:07 +0000 http://www.eschoolnews.com/?p=118539#comment-169324 Isn't the bigger issue the increasing number of mentally ill children in our society? Nobody seems to mention that... Isn’t the bigger issue the increasing number of mentally ill children in our society? Nobody seems to mention that…

]]> http://www.eschoolnews.com/2012/12/16/could-sandy-hook-shooting-be-a-gun-control-tipping-point/comment-page-1/#comment-169323 schellekensr Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:57:16 +0000 http://www.eschoolnews.com/?p=118539#comment-169323 Gun control will not prevent these events. I grew up in a country with very, very strict gun laws - and a similar thing happened there. I am anything but a champion for gun rights. Something much more important, however, is what needs changed. We have taken morality out of the schools. Right and wrong are words/concepts which have become alien to teachers - other than as an answer. Now we speak of acceptable/unacceptable choices, without explaining what makes these choices fit in these categories. We have lost the concept of objective right and wrong. Political correctness and tolerance have both contrinuted to the shift in how people respond to things which they disagrew with or when they fell sslighted etc. Not until the nation as a whole remembers there is such a thing as objectively wrong/right will horrible events like this exist - stricter gun laws or not. Gun control will not prevent these events. I grew up in a country with very, very strict gun laws – and a similar thing happened there. I am anything but a champion for gun rights.
Something much more important, however, is what needs changed. We have taken morality out of the schools. Right and wrong are words/concepts which have become alien to teachers – other than as an answer. Now we speak of acceptable/unacceptable choices, without explaining what makes these choices fit in these categories.
We have lost the concept of objective right and wrong. Political correctness and tolerance have both contrinuted to the shift in how people respond to things which they disagrew with or when they fell sslighted etc.
Not until the nation as a whole remembers there is such a thing as objectively wrong/right will horrible events like this exist – stricter gun laws or not.

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